[cod] Read Only Problem

[BludGeonT[EUG]]

ahh, thanks for clearing that up.  Great information to know.

Bludge


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:34:03 -0800, Brian Dessent <brian at dessent.net> wrote:
> "BludGeonT[EUG]" wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like we all love it when cvar names change, especially ones
> > that we have become familiar with over the years.  Thanks for the
> > information about the cvar name changes.  My only question is, why?
> > why change them when so many admin proggys and things that people use
> > to admin their servers will now also have to be patched, hacked or
> > brought up to current due to this.   Nothing beats straight ol console
> > in a screen session, but man - whateva!
> 
> They didn't change any cvar names.  The old cvars are still there, but
> they're read-only.  That is because of the voting that was added in the
> latest patch - the state of the cvars has to be consistent throughout
> all the clients and if you could change it server-side it would no
> longer be consistent.
> 
> To allow the admin to force a change, they added commands (not cvars)
> that will force a change.
> 
> Brian
>