When you're done taking TF2 so seriously that balloons and presents ruin the game for you, try using this cvar to disable it:
tf_force_holidays_off 1 Or just take your server offline. I'm sure everyone else would benefit from that. On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:33 -0700, M33CROB wrote: > Hello Valve, > > Would you please consider allowing admins to disable this feature? It's > fun and all for you to do this once a year, but I for one cannot stand party > mode and would rather take my servers offline than to subject my player base > this. > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Harry Strongburg <harry.h...@harry.lu>wrote: > > > ] rcon tf_birthday > > "tf_birthday" = "0" > > game notify replicated > > > > Ok, it's set at 0, the default. I have no party-mode plugins installed. > > So why are all the gibs on my server being turned into balloons and > > unicycles?! No one is wearing a birthday-hat like the wiki page says > > they should be. > > > > Client-side, I have: > > ] tf_birthday > > "tf_birthday" = "0" > > game notify replicated > > > > So why is everyone turning into balloons and it's playing stupid party > > noises? It's happening to me on every server, even servers without any > > mods installed. > > > > I am cross-posting this to both hlds and hlds_linux lists (even though I > > know you dislike this), as it happens on both Linux and Windows servers. > > > > If anyone else has this problem or knows a fix, please reply. Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds