Maplist on Jailbreak Server

[Stinger]

Hello ello, again.

   Josh here, "Stinger{ASS}" in game (Atomic Slug Slingers, since people on the mutant server keep asking. Old-school JB clan).

   Us guys and gals over at the jailbreak community forums and IRC channel have been making occasional use of your JB server. Good stuff, we're all very grateful for its existence. We were wondering, though. Would you be opposed to changing the maps list? Seems like you just have the first 10 maps running, which is fun and all, but a few of them are much despised, and you're missing a few maps that would in and of themselves get a lot of out old community back on the server for a chance to play again.

   Would it be possible to remove jb25map2, jb25map7, jb25map9, and jb25map10?

   And put in jb25map16, jb25map17, jb25map18, and jb25map28? Possibly jbneo3 as well, from the first neopak. That one has always been a personal favorite. JB25map16 (The Citadel) and JB25map28 (Psychodrome) are the two most popular JB maps of all time, and we've all been jonesing for another crack at them.

Thanks in advance,

Josh "Stinger" Johnson

[console]

Hi,

I'd be happy to... But it seems there is a mystery to be solved...

The maplist in our jailbrk.ini is set to the following, but apparently it is not being followed:

maps = "jb25map1, jb25map2, jb25map3, jb25map4, jb25map5, jb25map6, jb25map7, jb25map8, jb25map9, jb25map10, jb25map11, jb25map12, jb25map13, jb25map14, jb25map15, jbgm1, jbgm2, jbgm3, jbgm4, jbgm5, jbplat1, jbplat2, jbplat3, jbplat4, jbplat5, jbplat6, jbplat7, jbneo1, jbneo2, jbneo3, jbneo4, jbneo5, jbneo6, jbneo7, jbneo8, jbneo9, jbneo10, jbneo11, jbneo12, jbmtod"

So I'd be happy to make the changes you requested, but at this point I have no idea why the _existing_ maplist isn't working.


Regards,

[Stinger]

Huh... Yeah, I have no clue.

I can tell you from having played on the server more than once, all that plays is 1-10, and then it boots everyone on the server and starts back at 1.

Eh... I don't know how likely it is to get ahold of any of the mod makers at this point. A few have shuffled off to who knows where, one is ID, one is Raven, and I haven't spoken to any of them in years and years... I'll ask around.

[Stinger]

Well, I haven't gotten ahold of anybody yet, but, since it goes haywire after map 10 every time, could it be something wrong with map 11? I know nothing of Q2 servers, so I'm just spouting off here. You I'm sure know quite a bit, but I'm not sure what if anything makes Q2JB different. I put the word out though, we're trying to find some of our old server admins. I doubt we'll succeed, but we're trying.

[Stinger]

Since I can't post over there without registering,

My thoughts are that "jailbrk.ini" is NOT the correct map rotation file.  It may be the file used for the voting menu, it may be the file used to let the server know which maps are available to be loaded, who knows.

But I'm pretty sure the map rotation for q2jb was a .txt file.

Wild guesses here:
rotation.txt
maps.txt

Something like that.

And I have one other guy saying it's "maps.txt"

Hopefully this is helpful. If it's just us saying shit that's not helpful, my apologies.

[console]

Hmm, well there is a maps.lst in there, but it's clearly not paying attention to that file:

jbneo1 "Cathedral Remake"
jbneo2 "The Cage"
jbneo3 "Depth"
jbneo4 "Voids"
jbneo5 "The Citadel"
jbneo6 "Kilnova"
jbneo7 "Iron Man"
jbneo8 "The Citadel: Match"
jbneo9 "The Smelter"
jbneo10 "Slugs & Buckshot"
jbneo11 "Beggar's Canyon"
jbneo12 "East vs West Remake"
jbmtod "Mobile Tower of Death"

Also, the readme file says:

JailBreak v2.5
glibc2 Linux Server Release
6/25/99
Last Minute Info
------------------------
For instructions on how to play JailBreak and more in-depth info, please see the JailBreak
manual in the client download.
------------------------
To run a server you need the client download (jb25cl.zip) in addition to this file
------------------------


* Put the files in this archive in \quake2\jail

* Remember, 2.5 is a complete replacment, if you have your old jail directory, you can go
  ahead and delete it, and just install 2.5

* If you delete your old JB directory, make sure you backup things you want to keep, such
  as default.cfg and config.cfg, which contain your key bindings, and JB Gold, Plat, Neo, etc

* All server configuration is in server.cfg and jailbrk.ini

* Reccomended server setup procedure:
  1) Get client files and install
  2) Get server files and install
  3) Edit server.cfg and jailbrk.ini to suit your tastes - read instructions in them carfully
  4) Run the server by:
     quake2.exe +set dedicated 1 +set game jail +exec server.cfg +map jb25map1

I've also grep'd the game binary itself, which does reference jailbrk.ini, and not maps.txt or maps.lst:

quake@fragbait:~/servers/quake2/jail$ strings gamei386.real.so | grep -i jailbrk.ini
jail/jailbrk.ini
Cannot read jailbrk.ini, please re-install JailBreak
quake@fragbait:~/servers/quake2/jail$ strings gamei386.real.so | grep -i maps.lst
quake@fragbait:~/servers/quake2/jail$ strings gamei386.real.so | grep -i maps.txt


Hmmmmmmmm.... I see there's a showmaps command from within the game in jailbreak:

]showmaps
Rotation #:0 Map:jb25map1
Rotation #:1 Map:jb25map2
Rotation #:2 Map:jb25map3
Rotation #:3 Map:jb25map4
Rotation #:4 Map:jb25map5
Rotation #:5 Map:jb25map6
Rotation #:6 Map:jb25map7
Rotation #:7 Map:jb25map8
Rotation #:8 Map:jb25map9
Rotation #:9 Map:jb25map10
Rotation #:10 Map:jb25map11
Rotation #:11 Map:jb25map12
Rotation #:12 Map:jb25map13
Rotation #:13 Map:jb25map14
Rotation #:14 Map:jb25map15
Rotation #:15 Map:jbgm1
Rotation #:16 Map:jbgm2
Rotation #:17 Map:jbgm3
Rotation #:18 Map:jbgm4
Rotation #:19 Map:jbgm5
Rotation #:20 Map:jbplat1
Rotation #:21 Map:jbplat2
Rotation #:22 Map:jbplat3
Rotation #:23 Map:jbplat4
Rotation #:24 Map:jbplat5
Rotation #:25 Map:jbplat6
Rotation #:26 Map:jbplat7
Rotation #:27 Map:jbneo1
Rotation #:28 Map:jbneo2
Rotation #:29 Map:jbneo3
Rotation #:30 Map:jbneo4
Rotation #:31 Map:jbneo5
Rotation #:32 Map:jbneo6
Rotation #:33 Map:jbneo7
Rotation #:34 Map:jbneo8
Rotation #:35 Map:jbneo9
Rotation #:36 Map:jbneo10
Rotation #:37 Map:jbneo11
Rotation #:38 Map:jbneo12
Rotation #:39 Map:jbmtod

So clearly it is paying attention to the maps list in jailbrk.ini.

 ....................

Ugh... I've been debugging this for the past couple hours...

Basically trying to figure out why the server keeps crashing.

... Seems to be an interaction between q2admin and the jailbreak mod.

I have removed q2admin for now...

This means commands like GOTO, MYMAP, etc. won't work.

(Actually GOTO was broken on jailbreak anyway, but i had just fixed that...)

So...........

Here is the current map rotation:

maps = "jb25map1, jb25map3, jb25map4, jb25map5, jb25map6, jb25map8, jb25map11, jb25map12, jb25map13, jb25map14, jb25map15, jb25map16, jb25map17, jb25map18, jb25map28, jbgm1, jbgm2, jbgm3, jbgm4, jbgm5, jbplat1, jbplat2, jbplat3, jbplat4, jbplat5, jbplat6, jbplat7, jbneo1, jbneo2, jbneo3, jbneo4, jbneo5, jbneo6, jbneo7, jbneo8, jbneo9, jbneo10, jbneo11, jbneo12, jbmtod"

If you would like further changes, let me know...

Hopefully it is stable now..

Regards,

[Stinger]

You kick so much ass. Thanks a lot, man. Probably won't be until this weekend until I can get us all together, but I'm going to try to get a few people in to test it sooner than that. This is greatly appreciated.

[Stinger]

We're (And by that I mean me and hopefully 3-5 others) are hopping on the server in about 8 minutes now, and will be on for at least an hour or two. Anyone who hasn't tried jailbreak is welcome to come join us. It's a fantastic mod, and "the more, the merrier."

One of these days I'll get around to posting a synopsis to try to talk more of you into it. I genuinely believe it to be the best FPS mod ever. And they made Q3 versions... Q2 is just better.

Hope to see some of you there. If not this time, next time.

[Docjosh]

Maybe I can strike some luck here. We are getting a group together to play jailbreak this thursday night. Hope you guys can join us!

Also, is there a change map command on the server where we can vote to change map?