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w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

Hello, I dont know how active this forum is but its nice there is still a construction community going. I was wondering if anyone can help explain to me how to host a server, I have construction Quantium mod and all the files, I just need to know how to do it lol. If anyone wants to play, just pm me and we can build some stuff together.

Krash · December 2006

Yeah... the few pieces of the construction community left are pretty scattered. Even before tribes3.org went down the forums were getting a bit slow.
There was that one time some guy relentlessly went spamming the construction section and I had to keep banning his accounts and removing hundreds of posts though.

First thing to do once you've installed the mod is to remove dso files.
If your variation didn't come with a remover, there's one you can download at:
http://xfer1.the-construct.net/tribes2/etc/DSO%20Remover.bat

After that you can either use the host tab through the online client or use the dedicated server shortcut usually provided in the construction folder.

w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

Cool thanks, do you use the same name in here as you do in game? I know the account edit page is down, but I read somewhere they are tryna fix it. I'll try and set a server up now, will I use the construction net server name if thats ok?

edit: soz for the noob question, but when I make a server and connect to it with great success

... when I place an object, say a support beam, a big massive strip with lines on it appears and zooms all the way to the horizon, why is this? lol :mad:

Krash · December 2006

w00dbl0k,wizard

edit: soz for the noob question, but when I make a server and connect to it with great success ... when I place an object, say a support beam, a big massive strip with lines on it appears and zooms all the way to the horizon, why is this? lol :mad:

This happens when either the dfunctions or loadscreen.cs.dso file in your scripts/do_not_delete directory have been deleted or moved.

You can put these back in:
http://www.the-construct.net/Dfunctions.cs
http://www.the-construct.net/loadscreen.cs.dso

I use "Krash123" ingame, usually in the official the-construct server.

w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

Yeah that worked a treat, thanks for the quick responce too. One thing though, how do I make myself SA and edit the config to my liking, so that its all done and dusted right when I start the server up? Im getting there though.

Krash · December 2006

You can open up serverprefs.cs to edit (in your construction/prefs folder), and put your guid on the SA list in
$Host::SuperAdminList = "1111";
Each guid on the list is seperated by \t, so if you want to add a couple people you can do
$Host::SuperAdminList = "1111\t23445";

w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

Ok thanks, but what is a guid? If you used steam and you know what im talking about, is that like your STEAM id? Where can I find this guid?

Krash · December 2006

Yes, it's quite the same. A global user id. You can do a listplayers(); in the console of your server while you're on it and it should show up.

If you were "{^U-C^}w00dbl0k" in August of 2004 the guid I have in my logs is 739759.

w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

wow! how did you know that??! lol

Krash · December 2006

Been keeping logs of the guids of people joining my server since around the end of 2002... lost most of the ones from before I had to reinstall in July 2004 though.

w00dbl0k,wizard · December 2006

One, probably last thing, since I cannot find that bit on the file I have figured that the admin password is there for a reason. So I just type this in, ingame right? I know my password so ingame what is the Quantium command to log into admin? Thanks

Krash · December 2006

Open up the console with your tilde key and put in:
sad("password");

When the prefs aren't in the file, you can add them in yourself, because all that is added the first time is whatever is in the game's serverDefaults.cs.