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<DIV><SPAN class=593081219-16052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We are
running a server with AWE 3b9 and a mappack of 85 MB, fs_game set to a name, no
one else will use, so it won´t give problems with any other modified servers
running AWE 3b9 and any mappacks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593081219-16052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And as
long as you put in the ReadMe-files into the mappack and as long as you don´t
modify the maps it should be no problem to use mappacks... As admin you don´t
have another choice if you want to hold your server running and react to the
wishes of your community... </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=593081219-16052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>IW
should fix the mistake with iwd sum/missmatch soon, it is not much fun to
administrate a CoD2-server, running from one problem into the next... And it is
an old mistake, we had it in COD, so it should not been done again, but ok,
that´s the way it went... </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<BR><B>Von:</B> Quint van Drosthagen
[mailto:cod@se-easy.net]<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006
21:05<BR><B>An:</B> cod@icculus.org<BR><B>Betreff:</B> RE: [cod] Combining
maps and skins<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks guys for the
response… And will use the fs_game to not make any trouble…</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ian mu
[mailto:mu.llamas@gmail.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> dinsdag 16 mei 2006
20:33<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
cod@icculus.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re:
[cod] Combining maps and skins</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Illegal is probably the wrong word,
ideally I would say check the readme with any map (open up the .iwd file with
zip), if an author says not to redistrubute without permission I would ask for
it. Many may say in the readme they are ok as long as the readme that
came with the original zip is included as well (so its obvious who the
originator is). Try to keep any unique names to your paks to avoid possible
conflicts with paks similarlarly named players may already have from
elsewhere. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Not sure why people can't get a map
pack to work with any mod, (although not sure which map pak, so might be
something in that), we have custom paks working with mods fine, and only use
fs_game when there's a speciifc mod to be used. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Another possible alternative for some
would be to keep the same base or fs_game , but move paks in/out from a
central place just as part of a dos or bash script (if you use a diff fs_game
you need to restart server anyway). We've done that before when there's been
some weird combos of mods and maps and people want to switch between them but
keep the base gametype or mod so it matches the filter queries.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN class=gmailquote><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=gmailquote>5/16/06</SPAN><SPAN
class=gmailquote>, <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><A
href="mailto:gadruid@bellsouth.net">gadruid@bellsouth.net</A></SPAN></B>
<<A href="mailto:gadruid@bellsouth.net">gadruid@bellsouth.net</A>>
wrote:</SPAN> </P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It is not illegal,
however creating map packs at random can create problems for
users. Be sure to use fs_game and it should, in theory,
work. I have never got a map pack to work with any mod.
<BR><BR>John<BR><BR>><BR>> From: "Quint van Drosthagen" <<A
href="mailto:cod@se-easy.net">cod@se-easy.net</A>><BR>> Date: 2006/05/16
Tue PM 01:51:39 EDT<BR>> To: <<A href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">
cod@icculus.org</A>><BR>> Subject: [cod] Combining maps and
skins<BR>><BR>> All,<BR>><BR>> Got a question a little while ago I
asked where to find good maps... And<BR>> found them... At that point
somebody mailed that it is illegal to combine <BR>> maps and skins. But the
problem at this point is when I put more then 4 iwd<BR>> files in the
server the server crash... Is it really illegal to combine maps<BR>> and
skins so I can make 1 skin pack and 1 mappack??? <BR>><BR>>
Regards<BR>> Quint<BR>><BR>><BR>></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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