Change GameType

[TCP_Wolf]

Oldsparky came to me lately with 2 little problems, and Hyper's although very cute Server Browser also points that same problem out, that by mods and mutators there are too many game types effectively :-?

I wrote a small mod called "SetGameType" for both Unreal and Unreal Tournament that allows your server to appear in whatever tab YOU (the admin) want it to appear.

It's rather primitive and can probably be done better, it's definitely not worth opening its own modding path for this, so I release it under the "CodeSchool" project with full sources, in case somebody wants to improve upon it or is bored....

http://wolf.tcpclan.net/projects/Unreal/CodeSchool.html

[Oldsparky]

Installed on our servers both unreal and ut. Works great and first time ever our KOTH servers show on DM list.

Thanks, 8-)

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I really really hate seeing TO servers in Dm list

[GreatEmerald]

It's good to have servers listed in those gametypes that the server actually runs. Even if not at that moment. But still, this could be used for server advertising abuse, that is, list your server on all gametypes? Or are there restrictions?

[Bane]

It's good to have servers listed in those gametypes that the server actually runs. Even if not at that moment. But still, this could be used for server advertising abuse, that is, list your server on all gametypes? Or are there restrictions?

All the mod does is change the Game Name variable, which is how unreal determines which tab to put the server on. 'Coop Game' goes under coop, 'Deathmatch' goes under DM, etc. It can only be set to one thing, so you can't have it appear in more than one tab (excluding All, Populated, etc). The only real abuse you could do would be to do something weird like put a coop server under DM... however like I said, it just changes one variable. You could just use an admin set command to accomplish the exact same thing. This mod just automates it.

[GreatEmerald]

Oh, OK. But then how useful is having a server on a tab that your gametype doesn't belong to? Except if it is a non-standard but very similar.

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Oh, OK. But then how useful is having a server on a tab that your gametype doesn't belong to? Except if it is a non-standard but very similar.

You get more players... imagine if JCoop/JZCoop/MCoop would require own server tabs aswell, not many players would even notice those servers (unless they look from "All servers" tab), so IMO its just best to put custom game types to some game tabs that are closest to the one server is running (CTF > TDM, Inv > Coop, HideNSeek > DM etc).

[TCP_Wolf]

Cool, I just have to be absent and all questions I should have answered are answered automatically by someone else... I wonder if this works with (not) paying bills too