[Tutorial]Setting up your Map Rotation

[Dr.Satan]

To set up your map rotation with SourceMod:

You have to change the following files:

maplist.txt (fortressforever/maplist.txt)
mapcycle.txt (fortressforever/addons/sourcemod/configs/mapcycle.txt)
adminmenu_maplist.ini (fortressforever/addons/sourcemod/configs/adminmenu_maplist.ini)

You will probably need to create the last 2 files (I had to) b/c the sourcmod dl doesn't come with them.

maplist.txt should be the maps you want. listed one by one each on their own line.

An example:

ff_congestus
ff_well
ff_aardvark
ff_etc

mapcycle.txt should be the same as the maplist.txt

Example:

ff_congestus
ff_well
ff_aardvark
ff_etc

adminmenu_maplist.ini is a full list of every map on your server. I don't think it has to be in alphabetic order, but it helps.

Example:

concadam
ff_aardvark
ff_congestus
ff_redgiant
...

Save this file in notepad (notepad NOT wordpad) as adminmenu_maplist.ini and it will save it as an ini file. Then upload to your server.

Once you have all that done you should be good to go.

Trouble Shooting

If your map is not starting at the first map in your maplist when you restart your server, you may need to check with your server provider. They probably have a specific map designated to be the "start map" whenever you restart / stop and start your server.

You can test this on your own by placing the following line in your server.cfg (fortressforever/server.cfg)

startmap "ff_dev_2fort"

Stop your server completely
Start your server
And finally check which map it starts on

If it starts up as anything but ff_dev_2fort then they have it set to start on something. I think the current default is usually ff_well (mine was).

To solve this you have 2 options:

1. Contact your server provider and ask them to change the start map to something you want
2. Place the map your server starts on at the top of your maplist and mapcycle.txt files

Example for Opt. 2 (assuming ff_well is default map):

ff_well
ff_congestus
ff_well
ff_aardvark
ff_etc

NOTE: You can have more then one listing of the same map in your mapcycle / maplist.txt