Osx dedicated server

#1 FP,

Take a look in Apple Support. I vaguely recall encountering the topic during the 10.2.5 "kernal panic" plague.

...rmk

#2 FP. Take a look at ReadMe.html in your ThinkTanks folder. It gives instructions for PC, Linux and Mac. How different OSX (if those instructions aren't in fact for OSX) I don't know. But do check your ReadMe files.

-Z-

#3 PLEASE if someone is familiar with terminal on OSX COULD YOU PLEASE take a look at the readme file in the ThinkTanks folder and see it you can launch a dedicated server and post very detailed instructions. Confuses the shit out of me tried everthing.
I am trying to get my 12 new maps scrolling on a dedicated server. Here is what am typing

./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -dedicated -mission -Game
I have tried this in the shell and and the New Command box

This is what I get
bash-2.05a$

HELP HELP!!
FP

#4 ./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -dedicated -mission ALL -Game TS

Try that. Cycles the missions, and it's a Team Scrum game....

B = Battlemode
S = Scrum
TB = Team Battlemode
TS = Team Scrum

If that doesn't work add the <>'s back on. Although I don't think it needs them...

"More guesses in the dark"
-- 56k

#5 Hey thanx for the help 56 IM UP AND RUNNING! It was The <> But those instuctions suck not even close if you have never used terminal those instructions are almost usless
I got lucky
FP!

#6 Those instructions are in standard nerd language. You mind typing up some instructions for the non-nerd amung us?

BTW: Quoting -z-'s site here, "The developers (BraveTree Productions) do kindly request, that if you create any maps or custom server using non-standard maps/rules, please put 'MOD' in the server name. Thank you."

I was chatting with a guy last night who didn't know the oddly named servers weren't official. So I do think the label will help.

-- 56k

#7 Hey FoulPlay, the maps worked great. Thanks.

Mark, wade through the 'nerd language' and soon enough you'll be fluent. The alternative is packaged installs which often cost money and are rarely as hackable as these.

#8 I am confused about all of this dedicated server stuff. Could someone running Mac OS X tell me very clearly and simply in plain english exactly how to start up a dedicated server and if it needs anything special to run it. Don't presume that I know anything at all about computers (i.e. what's a computer?). The readme says:

Quote:
If you are using a Macintosh, you will do similarly, but you need to type the name of the application inside the application package. So, from the command-line from the directory that contains the application package, you would type


./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -dedicated -mission -Game


where and have the same meaning as described above for Windows and Linux.

Several questions.

What is a command line and a directory and where are they?
I think I know what the application package is but I am not sure.
Where do I type that?
How does running a dedicated server effect the computer?
What happens when you are inside your own dedicated server (screenies?)?
And anything else I should know.

Thank you all

Asterisk (newbie map editor)

#9 The first place to start * is to go into your utilities folder and open the terminal app.
I suggest you then close it and get some good advice as to how to proceed.

Az

#10 Oh thanks bunches zaz. Did it never occur to you that my previous post was LOOKING for some good advice? No, I guess it didn't. Actually, I have a novel idea. Why don't YOU give me the good advice, so I can stop opening and closing terminal?

"Open... Close... Open... Close... Open... Close... Sigh, still no good advice yet, Open... Close... Open... Close... Open... [hours go by] Close... Open... Close... [years pass, everyone on ThinkTanks wonders what happened] Open... Close... [years later, electricity company cuts off power, I construct a small generator] Open... Close... [decades, then centuries, then millenia go by] Open... Close... Open... Close... Sometime in the year 5086 AD a TT demo rat comes by my still tank sitting in some still green pasture, shoots my head off, and says- 'shu tth efu kup idot' and at last I go... 'ahh, finally some good advice' and I do it."

Wow, I am weird. Huh.

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#11 Dedicated Server OSX MY TERMINAL SCREEN BELOW

Last login: Thu Sep 18 17:38:12 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
[c-67-164-59-31:~] nathan% cd ThinkTanks
[c-67-164-59-31:~/ThinkTanks] nathan% ./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks\ OSX -dedicated -mission ALL -Game TS

FP

TS=TEAM SCRUM
ALL=ALL MISSIONS

#12 Okay FP but then how do I launch it? Will that run TT or can I actually log into my own game? I am still a bit confused.

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#13 FP it doesn't work, after i get to the folder and then type the path ThinkTanks.app/Contents etc. it says permission denied, do you know what to do?

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#14 Hey fp that site crashed but i like your new one.
just one thing though can you put the map kit thing on your site if you still have it please.

gt