Gwynzer wrote:
Regarding saturday use of server: I think todays farce has shown that the server needs locked down way ahead of time. Despite being set up ahead of time by TAs have the settings still ended up being completely bonkers and we've got no idea how some of the stuff ended up screwed.
Time has nothing to do with it.
Ya need to find the problem, or at least know how to fix it. I don't think simply locking it 2 days in advance is going to set everything straight.
I overheard in the past that BF servers tend to frak up irreparably. I'd suggest to make a server preparation protocol that will start by completely killing the BF4 server process on the server and restarting it.
Then TA goes by a check list to change all values. Check list should only include values that needs to be changed, no need to include 100% vehicle spawn delay or 100% player health if its already set to it by default, that would only make whoever goes by that checklist to skip steps and miss settings.
Don't know how much time it takes for the server to start and configure, but i'd guess no more then 15 min?!