Stop server from restarting map when second player joins?

[tuia]

It's not documented here in the public forum, freddy asked me to patch the server executable, so that some commands, like game.killPlayer could be run.
You need to go to 0x00558268 address or 0x00158268 offset and change the byte value 75 to EB and save the file. After that, typing those commands from the server console won't prompt the "Unauthorized method" error message and they will be executed.

[jrivett]

Ok, thanks!

[freddy]

[tuia]

freddy, is right. You can add game.setMinNrOfPlayers 0 to your init.con inside your map .rfa file. It's cleaner and easier than patching the server executable. You'll have to add that command to all your map files, though.

[jrivett]

[jrivett]

Tuia: I hate to be a bother, but is there any chance you could find the code to change in the Linux server? I recently switched to Linux hardware (finally), and people are already complaining that the second player to join restarts the current map. Alternatively, if there's a particular hex string or set of instructions I should look for, I should be able to figure out which byte to change based on what you've already said.

I'm running the version 1.61 dynamic Linux server with the patches you already provided to prevent hacks.

(crossing my fingers)
Thanks in advance!
Jeff

[tuia]

Hi!

I did a quick check at BF1942 Linux server code and could not find it. I can't remember now how I found that function in BF1942 Windows server. This weekend I'll try to look further.
You can use "game.setMinNrOfPlayers 0" command in each of your map files as a temporary workaround.

[Senshi]

You can also add this line:
"game.setMinNrOfPlayers 0" to a basic common file that gets called for every map. Like the soldier.inc. That goes for every SSM modding/setting you want to apply for ALL maps.

[jrivett]

[Senshi]

No need to edit the .exe .

Sorry, I gave you the wrong filename. Look for "objects\Soldiers\common\CommonSoldierData.inc" . That's a file that is called whenever a soldier is required (be it bot or player), so it allows to easily "hook" in commands that you want to apply universally.