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WOW didn't expect this turnaround, cool will test this tonight for you, looking forward to it, i'm glad the demo's helped...

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ok i haven't had chance to look at this sorry busy with the family :)

the only time i can get a look at this will be the evening of january 2nd or 3rd.. sorry for delay but will post as soon as i have tested it for you :)..

seasons greeting to you all..

Andy

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I had just installed Baserace on my server and it sets 8th in a 10 map rotation. For some reason the map doesn't go on to the 9th map. It stops the rotation. ET then restarts the server rotation with no bots on it. Unfortunately I had to remove this map and now everything works fine.

I've never actually seen what happens on this map that causes it to reset. But I do know that something in this map is causing it.

Has anyone else had a problem with this??

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I'll take a look. Do you know if it happens if the map goes into overtime only; or all the time?

The initial guess is that campaign mode wants a winner at the round end, but he sets that value to -1 if the score is tied....

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there may be a way to fix it, not sure yet. the more I think about it though, I can't imagine that the game doesn't account for overtime; more likely it looks for round time and a valid winner value before ending the round....unless this is a problem on all dual objective maps in campaign mode...

I'm just setting up a server now to test some things.

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no probs with baserace here as far as map cycling goes

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well the exact crash is:

G_Spawn() no free entities

this is bad. it never showed up with 9 v 9, but I guess at some point it would have. There is a maximum of 1024 entities allowed in the game at a single time. During normal gameplay, new entities are spawned (like grenades, airstrikes, gold crates, etc). Given that the default map has roughly 880 entities at initial spawn, I can see where the limit would be reached very easily (google search shows it has). Given that I needed to add 46 to provide the basic support for it, I think that this map is dead :(

I've yet to see it happen 9 v 9 and lower, so I guess use at your own risk...

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Saw it in time extended testing that i mentionned back in a post on page 2. The log file showed a lot of air strike entities in the entity list dump. So I wonder if restricting the airstrikes or something in some way might keep the map alive?
BTW does anybody know how ET does garbage collection in the entities?

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no real garbage collection that i know of, they just use the entity and free it after it has served its purpose. it's just that a regular airstrike can spawn a bunch of entities (one for each pending explosion).

i guess i could go looking for entities that can be removed, but really I have no clue what the magic number is. i'll play around with some things this weekend, but I don't think we could ever call it stable enough to put on a dedicated server....