Stop/Start a game
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:34 pm
It happens. Somebody needs to go and do something important... eat, tea or piss!!! It happens and there is little can be done about it! Right? Well maybe there is.
I've been checking my own config file for L4D and found that there is a command: sv_pausable 0
Well it does exactly what it looks like. It allows you to pause and restart a game.
I can only say this is in theory but should work in practice. Only certain folk can activate the sv_pausable. Once thats done ANY client can 'pause' or 'unpause' the game.
Is it worth trying it out? Maybe! Well there is always that problem at the beginning of a map where one has disappeared and the safe room door opens automatically and the AI Director sends in a horde. This would stop that.
Just for the sake or repeating myself. ANY client can stop or start a game. For me it has to be a concensus vote and only done when everything is clear and most are in agreement. Same goes for restarts. Of course this can only really be done on Festers (my server is already set to pausable 1)
I've been checking my own config file for L4D and found that there is a command: sv_pausable 0
Well it does exactly what it looks like. It allows you to pause and restart a game.
I can only say this is in theory but should work in practice. Only certain folk can activate the sv_pausable. Once thats done ANY client can 'pause' or 'unpause' the game.
Is it worth trying it out? Maybe! Well there is always that problem at the beginning of a map where one has disappeared and the safe room door opens automatically and the AI Director sends in a horde. This would stop that.
Just for the sake or repeating myself. ANY client can stop or start a game. For me it has to be a concensus vote and only done when everything is clear and most are in agreement. Same goes for restarts. Of course this can only really be done on Festers (my server is already set to pausable 1)
