SoldatPage Server (Custom Maps)

[DePhille]

Hi,

Since my absence I was able to leech an old computer here and I installed Linux on it. Despite my internet connection being too slow to host the SoldatPage website on it, it can rotate an 8-player Soldat Server.
The server is thereby located in Belgium, so it should give a decent ping for European players (US players get 133-166, ping kick limit is set to 250).


The server will have a custom map rotation, with the maps hosted on SoldatPage.
Because there's still a lack of custom maps on SoldatPage I've decided to set up a DM-server.

Maps in rotation:
DM_Fall
DM_Fest
DM_Storm
DM_Karh
DM_Mikra
These are all removed maps from previous Soldat Versions.
If people start submitting maps, I'll put them into rotation to help spreading them.
Uploading maps can be done here: http://soldatpage.u13.net/maps_upload.php

Future updates:
Stats: U13SSS (v2, working on that)
Change to CTF when there are more custom CTF maps.

IP: virjam.hopto.org
Port: 23073
Max. Players: 8
Game mode: DeathMatch

SoldatPage Website

Grtz, DePhille

[truup]

Nice one idea to put old school maps on your server, but if you're connection is slow, then it's bad idea. The moment someone joins, and downloads map from your server, everyone will get lagged. Though there aren't too much sceneries on those maps, so they're small, right? You should host the map-pack on SoldatPage.

[DePhille]

Yeah, that's something for the future.
Right now I'm only rotating small maps on it. The limit is set to 8 players which is around 20KB/sec upload. My connection can do a 30KB/sec so there's still 10KB/sec as buffer.

In the future, when I have my dedicated server, I'll have access to a unmetered 100mbit/s up and down connection. This way I can start running multiple servers (maybe rent some too?) with huge custom maps.

However, It's a very good idea to host the mappack on SoldatPage, I'll write a script for that once there are more custom maps. Thanks for the good suggestion!

Grtz, DePhille

[truup]

Np, It could be a nice feature to set max download speed limit on server-side soldat.ini, like if you set it to 10kB/s, then it wouldn't use more than that for map-downloading.