Hi Everyone, I'm sending out a request on behalf of Outerlight, creators of The Ship for the community to host some dedicated servers for the Free Weekend that is taking place over Steam this weekend coming.
We'd be very grateful if anyone with the resources could host some server instances for the duration of the weekend to give trial players a good experience as we've had too many listen servers running on previous weekends distorting first impressions of the game. We've just recently added a new map and our first team modes - Team Elimination and Team VIP to add to the existing non-team Hunt, Eliminiation and Deathmatch. The dedicated server for The Ship works both on windows and linux, delivered via the hlsupdatetool as per other Source servers. However, it does not use the base source engine files and should not be installed on top of a CS, HL2DM server etc.. but in a separate folder. With the hldsupdatetool installed into a new folder the commands to install the server are Windows : HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game "ship" -dir C:\theship\ Linux : ./steam -command update -game ship -dir . A server.cfg file lives in ship/cfg/ which can be tweaked - it should look very familiar to other source config files. The server can then be run via Windows : C:\theship\srcds.exe -console +hostport 27015 -game ship +map atalanta +maxplayers 16 +servercfgfile server.cfg +mapcyclefile mapcycle.txt +log on Linux : ./srcds_run -game ship +map atalanta +maxplayers 16 -autoupdate +servercfgfile server.cfg +mapcyclefile mapcycle.txt +log on If you have any questions or need help with setup and configuration feel free to post to the list or reply to me directly. Thanks for any help you can give and hope to see you on board :) Ed Ed Wilson Technical Director Outerlight Ltd Tel +44 (0) 131 454 3777 Mob +44 (0) 7931 552 432 http://www.outerlight.com/ ------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete from your system. Unless approved literature of Outerlight is included, any views or opinions expressed are those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Outerlight. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
