[cod] Low ping players only and inactivity kicks

[Joe Hunkeler]

I'll have to agree.  Quake III engines have tricky cvars that look like 
they can do one thing (from what you set it to) just to turn around and 
screw you over.  I just wasn't sure if it was a bug to tell you the 
truth, but you've pretty much summed it up for me, thank you.

As for getting people to watch the server...  We have too many as it is :)

BludGeonT[EUG] wrote:

>Agreed on the setting it to 0.  This variable is a big mis-conception
>of the quake3 engine.  This setting, from my testing and knowledge, is
>misleading.  Basically, if you have a sv_maxping set to 300 it will do
>this.
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>You connect to the game server, but it happens to be hitting a busy
>point in the current map, or there is a spike or something weird
>happens, so that your ping is 350 for the first 2 seconds after
>connecting, and then jumps back down to the normal 50 or 60 ping. 
>This results in you being kicked becaues at THE TIME OF CONNECTION
>your ping was over the limit.  This is very very lame.  Because,
>someone overseas might join a US server at 297 ping, and get into the
>server and then after they are in, their ping can spike up to 5-600 or
>even higher and they wont get kicked.  Nice eh?
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>Best thing is to turn it off like Admin aid, turn both of them off,
>max and min ping.
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>Might want to recruit some people to keep an eye out in hte server and
>help the high pingers find the door manually.  This is based off of my
>experience, hope this helps clarify things,
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>BludGeonT[EUG]
>EarthLink Ultimate Gaming
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>On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 02:13:02 -0400, Joe Hunkeler <wolve at dodfrontline.com> wrote:
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>>Go figure, thanks.
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>>admin at typhoonservers.com wrote:
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>>>Set you config to max ping "0"
>>>problem solved
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Joe Hunkeler" <wolve at dodfrontline.com>
>>>To: <cod at icculus.org>
>>>Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:04 PM
>>>Subject: [cod] Low ping players only and inactivity kicks
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>>>>Hi, this is my first post here, so I'm a bit iffy of the rules on
>>>>writing on the mailing list...  Anyhow here it goes.
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>>>>I've been researching the error normal regulars get to our clan server,
>>>>"This server is for low ping players only" [or something of the sort].
>>>>So I looked through the cvar list and found "sv_maxping sv_minping"  I
>>>>adjusted the max ping limit to 1000 in hopes it would allow even our 56k
>>>>community to join and play; as we do have a small percentage of them.
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>>>>I myself ping about 56-60ms to our server that's located in Texas...
>>>>I'm getting that error occasionally myself even though I'm clearly
>>>>pinging pretty low.  Others are having the same problem too, and it
>>>>takes a good three or four reconnects to let them in.  Is there any way
>>>>to turn this feature off completely?
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>>>>Secondly, the inactivity kick is starting to piss off our general
>>>>public.  Seeing as this is a realism server defending a location with a
>>>>machine gun for a period of time is allowed...  After a little while an
>>>>annoying message pops up saying that the player will be kicked from the
>>>>server.  I'd like to know if there's a cvar that I've overlooked to turn
>>>>this feature off.
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>>>>Thank you.
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