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Does anyone know how to limit a server's gametypes+mutators and map?

For example, we have Wazu HardBall 24/7 server up, and we want to limit the server to only play Insta Basket BB on Futuresport & Dropzone and Medieval Basket BB on Futuresport & Dropzone. 4 games, one gametype, 3 mutators, and 2 maps. So how would you do that?

BTW, more maps will be added to the mapcycle as we see suitable for competitive basket BB.

Well, mutslockfilter is the var to restrict the selection to a certain set of mutators, though I've been having some problems using it correctly (I'm not sure if that's me being stupid or a bug somewhere). Now, if I managed to use that properly to restrict mutators to basket, insta, and medieval - it still wouldn't prevent a person from voting for insta & medieval with no basket - which isn't the desired effect.

Edit: One of these days I'm going to write a tutorial on restricting gamemodes & mutators correctly - maybe a wiki article. It's pretty poorly documented at the moment.

orbitaldecay {l Wrote}:Now, if I managed to use that properly to restrict mutators to basket, insta, and medieval - it still wouldn't prevent a person from voting for insta & medieval with no basket - which isn't the desired effect.

Actually that does bring me to an offtopic. What is the use of NOT using basket? Because, now that I think about it, you can do all the same stuff with no basket as you can do in basket. No basket just means you can't shoot and you can only dunk. But with basket, you can shoot and dunk. Can't we vote to have Bomber Ball just be basket all the time? Just makes sense..

inpersona64 {l Wrote}:Actually that does bring me to an offtopic. What is the use of NOT using basket? Because, now that I think about it, you can do all the same stuff with no basket as you can do in basket. No basket just means you can't shoot and you can only dunk. But with basket, you can shoot and dunk. Can't we vote to have Bomber Ball just be basket all the time? Just makes sense..

My fault, another one of those "cause and effect" situations where I saw only a handful of people good at bomber-ball, and they would own everyone just by shooting the bomb into the goal. I guess I considered it the difference between basket- and foot-ball. Should we invert the logic so the "dunk-only" behaviour is the mutator? Poll it for a week and see?

qreeves {l Wrote}:

inpersona64 {l Wrote}:Actually that does bring me to an offtopic. What is the use of NOT using basket? Because, now that I think about it, you can do all the same stuff with no basket as you can do in basket. No basket just means you can't shoot and you can only dunk. But with basket, you can shoot and dunk. Can't we vote to have Bomber Ball just be basket all the time? Just makes sense..

My fault, another one of those "cause and effect" situations where I saw only a handful of people good at bomber-ball, and they would own everyone just by shooting the bomb into the goal. I guess I considered it the difference between basket- and foot-ball. Should we invert the logic so the "dunk-only" behaviour is the mutator? Poll it for a week and see?

Honestly, I'd love to make it so that the gametype is just basket only. Don't get me wrong, dunking is fun. It's just some players are..well, unstoppable (i won't name names) when they are dodging. And I really don't think players need the choice between whether they want to play football and football+basketball. It's should be football+basketball all the time. But I guess that's just me lol. I am black after all.

qreeves {l Wrote}:

inpersona64 {l Wrote}:Actually that does bring me to an offtopic. What is the use of NOT using basket? Because, now that I think about it, you can do all the same stuff with no basket as you can do in basket. No basket just means you can't shoot and you can only dunk. But with basket, you can shoot and dunk. Can't we vote to have Bomber Ball just be basket all the time? Just makes sense..

My fault, another one of those "cause and effect" situations where I saw only a handful of people good at bomber-ball, and they would own everyone just by shooting the bomb into the goal. I guess I considered it the difference between basket- and foot-ball. Should we invert the logic so the "dunk-only" behaviour is the mutator? Poll it for a week and see?

I say poll it for a week and see. I find basket to be favorable as well - I like the idea of inverting the logic.