unranked server - disabling commander possible?

[The_Misfit]

A small ladder I belong to is investigating the idea of a 5v5 infantry tournament, and changing things up a bit we're discussing doing this without the use of COMMANDER.

I fairly new to server administration. Can the commander mode be disabled via .con settings (unranked private match servers obviously)??

And if you can't disable this, is there a way via server logs to tell when/if someone goes into/out of commander mode? The main thing we're worried about is someone entering commander mode for a few seconds, dropping a UAV, and then bailing out of commander mode...

Anyone ever messed with the CO settings on an unranked server?

thanks in advance for any help...

[Dlab37]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

sorry i cant help you but that sounds like an awsome idea could you tell me what 5v5 you would have up when it works. thanks

[BigBadBob]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

if it's unranked, it doesn't really matter to most people. SO they can do whatever they want on there.

[The_Misfit]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

In answer to poster #1, the site is: www.nato-ladder.com

Their roots are from other games, mostly mods, but they have a small 8v8-12v12 power ladder for BF2, and are going to have a tournament for 5v5 infantry, with no Commander use. I'm an admin on the site, and can answer any questions relating to setting up a clan on there. Several TWL clans play there as well...the ruleset is a bit different, makes it a bit more interesting (power ladder is 1st to 3 wins and each clan picks their own map - no random map stuff)....

[perry]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

You can just modify the maps and remove the CO assets all together.

[trodas]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

Well, and any easy settings for Single player play to disable the commander, like something into the ServerSettings.con file can't be done?

Editing map files did not sound good to me, as PB will verify them and kick me becuase of modification...

[FPS[VT_NERD]]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

I don't know about disabling the commander mode, but if you are using BF2CC then in the player window you can see if someone is commander b/c there will be a star next to their name. If someone on your team could keep BF2CC open on their laptop or something while playing you would know if someone became commander.

[troybob]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

You can just modify the maps and remove the CO assets all together.

do ssm's work with bf2? if so - then the map-file on the server can remove the CO assets and no client-side modifications are needed. PB can't kick the server.

[trodas]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

VT Nerd - well, what you posted is hardly a solution for SINGLE PLAYER playing in ONE computer

[[TiG]TheFairy]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

Yes this is possible but requires some server side modding. Basically you can remove the arty, and the uav, and the satellite, however not the supply drops.

This takes around 5 mins for each map you want to do, however requires direct access to the server to edit the files. You basically rem out the things you dont want, so vehicles etc just dont spawn.

Fairy

[trodas]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

Ah. Internet again worked well as best misunderstand thing ever :p

We got commander disabled on our europefast.net 100Mbit v1.22 CZ|24ms|82.208.4.199:16567 server

I asked if it is possible to disable for play agains bots, on my computer, not over internet

And I'm affraid that in this case, the answer is clearly no, becuase modding the levels means can't connect to PB server and every servers are PB, so... I think it can't be done. But I tried to ask, if someone don't know better

[Eden]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

As mentioned it is posable, there were a few servers that had this in PRMM 0.25 however it doesnt work properly (unknown if thats been fixed in any patches) but disbleing specific funtions of commander mode i.e. artilary, UAV has strange affects on the supply drop, you can request a supply drop and a UAV will apear etc.

I belive you can completely disable commander as well witch would solve that problem if you didnt want anyone to go as commander.

[trodas]

Re: unranked server - disabling commander possible?

Sir. Eden -

I belive you can completely disable commander as well witch would solve that problem if you didnt want anyone to go as commander.

Well, but - HOW?