Pure CTF Manual

Pure Ctf v1.40 by Methabol Pure CTF - CTF.SE

Index

  Credits

Quick Installation or upgrade

First unzip the pure ctf zip into your ctf server directory. Note: this will not replace your old server config or your motd file, so you won't risk losing any settings. Check the upgrade or new install sections below.

Note: You don't need to convert the ID maps to use them with Pure CTF. All converting is done on-the-fly by the QuakeC code. If you run with converted maps anyway (e.g. Q-mans conversions), Pure CTF will detect this and not change anything, but then you waste 43 megs of HD space. If you already have converted them you can safely remove this files from the quake/ctf/maps/ directory: e?m?.bsp dm?.bsp end.bsp *.ent

Installing from scratch

• If you want to change the motd, rename motd_new.qc to motd.qc, edit it and recompile. More about this in the motd section.
• Rename the file purectf.cfg to server.cfg and change the settings you want. There's a lot of settings there, but you can leave most as they are by default. The important ones to change are:

• The Server info section. Change all settings there to reflect your server.  (v1.30) The admin section. More about this here. Remember to change the rcon_password! The deathmatch setting in game rules.  1 is respawning weapons, 3 is static. The map queue. Enter your favorite maps to cycle on the server, or select "samelevel 0" for standard mapvote. Note: toss rune, drop quad, dropping, gl glow and shirt lock are on by default. All these can be found in the Pure CTF features section. Also, check the easy setup table below

• You're ready to go! Check out the server modes and server settings sections in this manual for more configuration info.

Upgrading

For all mods: Just unzip Pure CTF and remove the converted maps (see above) and you should be ready to go since Pure CTF is backward compatible. It's recommended however that you scrap your old config and replace it by renaming purectf.cfg to get all new settings and options as the admin commands, etc.

• PureCTF: There are a few new settings for your config. Check out the admin section, and then the Server Settings section. All that's new is marked in this document with: (v1.30), (v1.35) and so on.
• Threewave CTF: It's recommend that you scrap your old config and start fresh with by replacing it with purectf.cfg. Just move over your rcon_password, deathmatch and misc. serverinfo settings. Make sure to check out the admin, mapqueue and motd sections. If your running the server as a clanfight server, check out the competition mode in the server modes section
• CTF Showdown: Remember to add "serverinfo mode 4" to your config to put the server in showdown mode. For more information, read the CTF Showdown section.

Easy setup table

Server Modes

Switch mode using "serverinfo mode #".
 

Admin Functions (v1.30)

The admin functions adds a lot of commands that's easier to use than rcon commands, or does things that you can't do with rcon , such as swapping players, or start fights in competition mode. There can never be more than one admin at any time and there are three different "admin levels":

An admin have access to all admin commands and showdown commands. They are listed in the player commands reference.

Server Settings

All these settings are set with localinfo, e.g.:

• localinfo tr 1        // Enable Toss rune.

Default values for all settings
 

The Map queue

The map queue function in Pure CTF are totally compatible with allstar, ctfep, etc. You set map queue mode with the "samelevel" command. Most server admins will probably want to use the "custom" map queue (samelevel 2) to run their favorite maps only.
The status of the map queue is updated automatically into server variable "map queue". If the value there is "*broken*" your queue has an error and should be corrected.
If you use "samelevel 0" you have to set the votemap depending on which maps you want to play according to one the following:
 

Example Map Queues

Player Commands Reference

These are the new player commands and their corresponding impulses. Check the admin and showdown sections for more info on the corresponding commands.  

Player Settings

Add these settings to your config or type them in the console. All settings are set with setinfo, e.g.:

• setinfo statusbar 0            // This turns of the status bar

Ping ban

You can set the server to "hpb only" by setting serverinfo pingban <value> where "value" is the lowest ping allowed. You need an external program to poll the pings. I've included the program "pingstat" which is a quick hack of Qstat v1.6 by Steve Jankowski. There's more info in the pingstat readme.

Message of the day (MOTD)

Changing message of the day is the only server setting you have to recompile to change. Due to QuakeC's limitations it's just not possible to put it in your server.cfg. (At least if you want more than one line.) NOTE! You can't compile Pure CTF with regular QCC, since it's just to big. Proqcc or fastqcc works ok.

To change the motd, edit motd.qc and change these lines:

• motd1 = "Welcome to this Server! \n";
  motd2 = "Running Pure CTF by Methabol \n methabol@hem.passagen.se \n\n";
  motd3 = "Your admin is Mr.Anonymous \n admin@server.com \n";
  motd4 = "http://quake.server.com/ \n";
  motd5 = " ";
  motd6 = " ";

Recompiling

CTF Rank

Pure CTF supports the server ranking system "ctf rank". For more info, check out ctfrank's homepage.

CTF Showdown (v1.30)

Showdown mode is intended to run on a public match server where players can set up small fights by themselves without needing rcon. All the showdown commands works in all modes, but may be locked. They are available to a player if 1) He is admin 2) The servermode is Showdown and none else is admin. This means that you can set up a Showdown server so that everyone can change modes normally, but an admin can take "control" for a clanfight or suchlike.

All showdown commands can be found in the player commands reference.

Optimizations

• TeamCheckLock
• GetShortTeamColor
• CheckDimlight

Fixed Bugs

Todo and known bugs.

List of things I may (or may not) do/fix.

• If the distribution qwprogs.dat works ok, but it don't work when you recompile it: Make sure you don't use regular QCC since it can't handle too large files. Both Proqcc and fastqcc (my first choice) works ok.
• Clanrring CTF support. (but Pure CTF's comp. mode really handles things more cleanly, imho. I might be a bit biased though. :)
• Oncle support. It wouldn't take long, but I don't know anyone who would want this. :)
• Bug: e2m6 isn't converted quite correctly. Does anyone really play this anyway? :)
• Improve spectator tracking quite a bit. Fix to other impulses perhaps, and fix the rune tracking which don't work at all. Got to think about what I'm gonna do with this.
• Misc things from qw 2.0 squishes, dmm4, dmm5 etc.
• Fix the "attribution bug" (e.g. You kill someone with gl and get it as boomstick frag) I think I saw some mod that already did this, you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time, right?
• Fix custom skins and team. (Although I don't like that really. Perhaps admin switch? )
• Seems like hook 2 doesn't work exactly like Threewave v4.2. Perhaps connected to my impulse tweaks.
• Dynamic Anka maps. Dunno if this really is needed. Perhaps just a forced map change when you switch that.
• perhaps add a a botkick module. Don't know if it's really work though.
• A pause function would be nice.
• Ghost codes, and advanced handling of disconnects. I've already done some of this, and I think it works ok now.

History

v1.40 - 980409

• Hopefully practice mode works ok now. I think I fixed all servercrashes when restarting a practice round, and now you get a score bonus for winning a round. The scoreboard also maintains total team victories. (Using practice mode for a 2on2 "paintball" game on a small map like e2m2 is a blast. :)
• Kick on sight. You just aim at someone and use "kos" to kick them.
• Included a beta of pingstat.
• A player that disconnects in a match gets his frags back immediately. With multiple disconnects and swapping of players, the frags might not go to the right player, but the teamscore will always be intact. (That's all that matters in a match anyway, right?)
• Misc fixes: Smaller info texts when you track a player. You se a player's rune when tracking. Added a lot more helptexts. Illegal topcolors are not allowed anymore. Spectator admin status are remembered at map changes.(might bug?) To change maps you just type the name of the map.(as in the showdown/duel mods) The info message in spectator mode is removed after 15 seconds. Spectator skins are set to speed up skinchecking for all clients.
• Fixed bugs: Mapqueue works correctly now, but has a limitation to the next 10 maps. Fraglimit works again. Swapping players with flags works ok. Timer showed 60 sometimes instead of 0. Missing spawnfunction for e1m7 replaced. Freezes works correctly. Restarts only work in comp. mode.

v1.35 - 980404

• Improved spectator tracking a lot. Now runes works ok, tracking don't changes randomly and you get a bunch of info on the item you track. (Such as health/armor when you track a player.)
• Rate limit for both players and spectators.
• Added some info messages for standby mode. (Now you see who it is who can't spell to "ready". :)
• Optional flagtossing
• Added support for disabling faqproxy functions.
• Added capture time.
• Bugfix: Fixed most bugs for the map conversions.
• Bugfix: Crashes in practice mode.
• Bugfix: Commands flooding if you typed a command while being dead.
• Bugfix: Quiet standby now works.
• Bugfix: Autoshot and autodemo now works as in v1.20.

v1.30b - 980401
Fixed two small bugs:

• Showdown mode didn't work without admin. (Doh! :)
• Frags now resets at matchstart.

v1.30-980401
Major features:

• Dynamic Map conversion: This converts all the id maps on-the-fly by the QuakeC code! This means that you don't have to do the work of converting them when you set up a server and that you save 43 meg of HD space. As a bonus this means that all map bugs I've found (bogus teleporters, spawnspots in the ground, etc.) are fixed automatically.
• Showdown Support: Ctf showdown is a competition mode intended to run on a public server where players can set up small games (2on2 or suchlike) by themselves without needing rcon. This version of showdown has more options and some improvements from the original ctf showdown by [LoRD]Tar. In showdown mode (and always as admin) you can easily change timelimit, fraglimit, teamplay. dq, dr, tr, sv_spectalk, maxspecs, hook, discharge, runes, etc.
• Admin function: The admin functions helps to configure and administrate the server more easily. They include a lot of commands that's much easier to use than rcon , and some commands that does things you can't do as rcon such as swapping players or teams. Also, you can give people a special admin pass so you don't have to give the full rcon access. Admin commands include: kick, ban, swap, swapall(smartly), start, restart

Other features

• LPB Spectators rate is limited to 2500 so they don't bog down the server.
• Fixed the bugs in ctf2.
• Voteexit for public servers.
• "settings" gives a comprehensive table with all important server settings.
• "mapqueue" gives the mapqueue.
• "models" autochecks for changed models.
• autoshot and autodemo is timed better, and have to commands to turn them on/off easy. Autoshot captures a screenshot with both scoreboard and the scores with included disconnects.
• Variable to revert a match server to standard mode after x minutes.
• Runes respawn much more randomly now.
• Variable hookspeed. Hookspeed is also accelerated with higher sv_maxspeed.
• "Standby mode" optionally quiet (no shooting or players freeze), by admin or localinfo.
• Powerup disable works without restarting map:
• Tweaked impulses to work faster.
• Fine-tune haste with hasterate and hastespeed.
• Sets friction automatic.
• timestamps for connects & disconnects
• Hooks that hits teammates disappear. (Because that's what all other missiles do.) This prevents "floating hooks".
• Support for Anka maps on the following maps: e2m1, e2m2, e2m3, e2m5. (If you don't know what this is, just forget it. :)
• BUGFIX: powerup disable works ok now.
• BUGFIX: Rocket damage when no discharge mode set works ok.
• BUGFIX: dropring fixed
• BUGFIX: all bugs with servermode change.
• BUGFIX: removed missiles at match start.
• BUGFIX: Bug with two dropped quads picked up.
  

v1.20 - 980322 - First Public Release

• Added "autodemo" and "autoshot"
• Cleaned up a lot of serverinfo variables.
• Added option for faster maxspeed with haste. (Was introduced in v4.21)
• Hook disable.
• Added some serverinfo variables for server status: "mode" shows the server mode, "status" show competition match status and "map queue" shows the map queue starting with the current map.
• Fixed some small bugs from earlier versions.
• Finally finished the documentation. (Hey, your reading it right now! :)

v1.11 - 980316

• Added practice mode.
• Some bug fixes from v1.10, mostly with Competition mode and toss rune
• Made some simple performance tweaks to GetShortTeamColor and TeamCheckLock

v1.10 - 980314

• Started on new documentation.
• New command, models, to show all player models.
• Extended scores, with disconnects and caps.
• Countdown timer.
• Simple Competition Mode.
• Added "lock always" to shirtlock. (previously nosetshirt)

v1.03 - 980312

• Big addition: Extended Spectator tracking.
• Renamed runesoff to disablerunes

v1.02 - 980310

• Expert statusbar
• Spectator interaction ok.
• glglow on flags
• Fixed id maps with errors
• added disable discharge
• added alias commands

v1.01 - 980308

• added disable powerups

v1.00 - 980308

• Renamed my old servermod to Pure CTF and cleaned up some code.