* Kill enemy player: 1 point

* Suicide or odd death: -1 point

* Assisted the capture by killing the flag carrier: 1 point

* Assisted the capture by returning the flag: 1 point

* Assisted the capture by defending the flag: 1 point

* Captured the flag: 5 points (self)

* If score balance is on:  (10 * captured_team_size / capturing_team_size)

* Otherwise: 10 team

* Returned the flag: 1 point

* Helped return the flag (killed carrier leading to an immediate return by someone else): 1 point

* Defends the flag:  2 points

* Defends the base (killed enemy near pedestal, flag missing): 1 point

* Defends the flag carrier from an aggressive enemy (killed enemy who recently hit flag carrier): 3 points

* Defends the flag carrier (killed enemy near the flag carrier): 2 points

* Killed the enemy flag carrier: 2 points

7. Eraserbots

You will not be playing with any of Loki's Minion CTF code, not yet at least (no offhand grapple, no special laser fire, etc....) You will be using THREEWAVE CTF that ERASER & CRBot are merged with. You will only get:
LMCTF Graphics (the flag, and map textures, and new models)
LMCTF Sounds (when flag is captured, new grapple, etc.)
61 Maps -- Although we're not sure how well Erasers will play with them.

You'll need Q2CTF, the latest version of Quake 2, Eraser Bot and a PAK file utility such as Qped.

1. Use the Pak Explorer to extract the 'pics' directory from the pak5.pak into the Eraser folder. (This is the one that came with Eraser) Then delete the pak file. (pak5.pak) -- This is moving the Eraser Console background so its not overwritten.

2. Copy pak4.pak & pak5.pak and pak6.pak from the LMCTF folder into the Eraser or CRBOT folder. (Watch your drive space, you're looking at an extra 100 megs.)

3. To change maps, run your favorite CTFBot, go to the console & type: map LMCTF05 (where xx = 01 through 10) or your id ctfmap, or 1st person map of your choice. You'll see the new Loki logo's for the Wolf and the Lion in place of wherever the Hammer & Bolt were. (on any CTF map now. Including those of Threewave.) If this bothers you, you can either move the Loki CTF pak files into a separate directory, or rename the '.pak, extension to something else. If you want the old CTF textures back. (this will disable all the Loki's Minion stuff INCLUDING the MAPS! Unless you extract them!) All your old commands for Grapple, and weapon switch, etc. will be the same as before. The icons will still be the hammer & bolts. (i.e., team indicators) ERASER path.nodes.

8. Gibstats

Currently Gibstats does not allow players to retrieve stats while in the game. What LMCTF does allow is the ability of players to retrieve stats via the commands stats to view anyone statistics or statsall to spy everyone's doings.

9. Clan model & skin add-ons

Players merely need to extract the player add-on into /lmctf/player/ directory and copies of portrait pictures into /lmctf/pics/. For instance, the Demonhordes.zip would extract into /lmctf/players/daemon/ and /lmctf/players/rino/. The servers skins.ini file determins which skin will be used. As a player, the skins.ini files are to be ignored.

10. Plasma Rifle

You'll need to bind a key to "use plasma rifle". Do this by pulling down the console and typing "bind 1 use plasma rifle". Hitting the 1 key will then select the Plasma Rifle (if you've picked it up) and toggle between 2 modes of fire, spread and bounce.

11.Squad Board

This is an advanced feature which should prove extremely useful for clan matches.

Typing "squad xxx" in the console will set your team position to xxx.
Example: "squad defense" or "squad offense".

Typing "squadstatus xxx" in the console will set your team status to xxx.
Example: "squadstatus ready" or "squadstatus rearming".

Typing "squadboard" in the console brings up the statusboard, which shows you the position and status of every player on your team.

It would be most useful to bind these commands, coupled with team radio and text commands in your config files.

12.Observer Options

Typing "observe" in the console will put you into free moving observer mode.
Hitting your fire key will then toggle between free moving and chasecam modes.
Hitting your jump key will cycle you through all the players in the game when in chasecam mode.

Typing "observe_red" will only allow you to observe red players in chasecam mode.

Typing "observe_blue" will only allow you to observe blue players in chasecam mode.

Note: These options are also available in the ctf menu by typing "ctfmenu" in the console.
Observers will be listed on the score board as either observer, red observer or blue observer.
The team observer commands where added so that clans can have their own members observing in matches without bringing up the possibility of cheating by reporting enemy positions back to their clan mates.

13.Demo Analyzer

We've included a utility that will extract stats from any Q2 demo file. This util can be found in your quake2/idda directory. Please consult the readme file in that directory for instructions.

Server Info

1. The LM server for DM & CTF

For a Dedicated server run quake2 with the command line arguments:
quake2.exe +set game "lmctf" +set dedicated 1 +set deathmatch 1 +exec server.cfg

For a non-Dedicated server run quake2 with the command line arguments:
quake2.exe +set game "lmctf" +set deathmatch 1 +exec server.cfg

There are a few important files you should look at:
server.cfg - This contains many standard server options (see next section)
maplist.txt - This file contains the list of maps you want the server to cycle through. Enter the names of the maps you want in the order you want (supply only one map per line with no spaces and do not give file extensions). The map list will loop around to the beginning of your list when it completes. To override maplist cycle and view another map, type in the console "gamemap lmctf02" instead of "map lmctf02".
motd.txt - This optional file contains your custom message of the day. To alter your motd, type your text message into the file (your line spacing will be reflected the display).
The /ent subdirectory contains all the "override" entities that improve the id maps to better support CTF.

To support Q2CTF maps, you will need to copy the CTF "pak0.pak" into your LMCTF directory.

2. Server options

Server options are changed by selecting the desired value in the menu, and then using the inventory use key, which will either set that value (in the case of timelimit/fraglimit) or toggle the value (dmflags/ctfflags). All the DMFlags, CTFFlags, time limit, and fraglimit are changeable via a referee menu, toggling individual flags by name.

Flags are just bits in a larger variable. To set them, find the variable you want to set flags for, such as CTFFLAGS. Find the options you want to set, such as CTF_WEAP_BALANCE and CTF_OFFHAND_HOOK. Add the associated numbers together. In our case CTF_WEAP_BALANCE has a value 1, and CTF_OFFHAND_HOOK has a value 16. We add them to get 17. Set the variable equal to this number: set ctfflags 17

DM Flags
dmflags 1 - No Health
dmflags 2 - No Items
dmflags 4 - Weapons Stay
dmflags 8 - No Falling Damage
dmflags 16 - Instant Items
dmflags 32 - Same Level
dmflags 64 - Skin Teams
dmflags 128 - Model Teams
dmflags 256 - No Friendly Fire
dmflags 512 - Spawn Farthest
dmflags 1024 - Force Respawn
dmflags 2048 - No Armor
dmflags 4096 - Allow Exit
dmflags 8192 - Infinite Ammo
dmflags 16384 - Quad Drop
dmflags 32768 - Fix FOV

CTF Flags
ctfflags 1 - Weapons Balance
ctfflags 2 - Allow Invulnerability Power-up
ctfflags 4 - Team Reset
ctfflags 8 - No Team Switch
ctfflags 16 - Offhanded Hook
ctfflags 32 - No Voice
ctfflags 64 - No Grapple Damage
ctfflags 128 - No Teams
ctfflags 256 - No Flags
ctfflags 512 - Score Balancing
ctfflags 1024 - Team Armor Protection
ctfflags 2048 - original id armor strenth levels
ctfflags 4096 - Chooses a random map from the maplist.txt file.
ctfflags 8192 - Spawns next quad at a random time between 50 and 80 seconds.
ctfflags 16384 - Turns on random death messages when a player is killed.

Practice Mode Flags
refset 1 - Red Flag Frozen
refset 2 - Blue Flag Frozen
refset 4 - Green Flag Frozen
Servers in general probably don't want to permanently set anything in refset.
These are for practice mode purposes. Each bit locks a flag in place.
Green flag isn't implemented, but is there for future expansion.

Rune Flags
runes 1 - Damage
runes 2 - Resist
runes 4 - Haste
runes 8 - Regen

The help menu is a multi-page menu that reads all it's information out of a "help.txt" file in the lmctf directory. This will allow server administrators to add any text they want to our existing help. It also means we can change player help without recompiling the server.

3. The rcon

The rcon may do any server console command remotely using the standard:
set rcon_password "put_the_correct_rcon_password_here"
rcon console_command_goes_here
The rcon may also use special options in the referee menu, such as saving the currently configured server options to the server.cfg file. Rcons log on as referee with the command: referee put_the_correct_rcon_password_here

Remote opening of closed server - Due to a problem with the implementation of rcon control, server passwords cannot be set to "" (clear). LMCTF allows you to clear the server's player password via the referee menu, if you are an rcon. This allows a server to be opened or closed by the rcon without having to restart the server.

4. Tournament mode

Players and referees log on, change to correct colors. The ref starts a match after configuring server and setting the time limit, then picks a map. The server loads this map right away, and an automatic announcement warns 60 seconds till match begins. In this 60 seconds, players may NOT pick anything up, and any kills they get are irrelevant. As the 60 seconds is nearly up, you see a 30 second written warning of impending match, then a 15 second written warning, then a auditory countdown from 10 to 1. At 0, you hear a voice shout, "GO!", and you respawn, your stats and kills wiped blank, and starting in a team spawn point as if you just joined the server.

Game play proceeds till the goal of the match is achieved (either time limit or fraglimit). If the goal is fraglimit, you get no warnings (a rare form of game, only supported for the freakish chance someone wants it). For time limited games, the far more common form, written warnings are given every minute detailing how long till the match ends. When the match nears completion, you hear the countdown of 10 to 1 (clocked properly to match with the number or seconds), then a load horn/buzzer and message telling you which side has won. Players' scores are immediately frozen, and though they can still fight and capture the flag, none of it counts. The level lasts an additional 5 minutes like this, allowing the referee to verify the captured log, allowing players to take screenshots of the scoreboard, and allowing people to "stats" other players. At the end of 5 minutes, the server switches back to normal play mode and moves to the next map.

At any time, the referee can restart the match, be it during countdown, the game itself, or the post-game. During play time, if a player is disconnected and reconnected, that player will retain all stats.

At the end of the match, the server sits in 'intermission' mode, allowing players (and refs) to retrieve stats information via stats/statsall, and to take screenshots, etc. The referee can abort this wait early via the referee commands (by setting a new level or match in progress).

5. Referee mode

To enable referees on a server, the server must add to server.cfg: set refpassword put_referee_password_here
A referee logs on using the syntax: referee put_referee_password_here
Referee abilities are primarily accessible via the ctfmenu function. These abilities include:

Changing the map

Adjust server settings temporarily. (time limit, fraglimit, dmflags, ctfflags)

The referee menu displays the player password, the password which allows players to join the server. The referee can then communicate this password to the players who want to join via irc or icq or whatever. This assumes the situation comes up where the referee is connected to a server, but doesn't know what the player password is (which isn't common, but when it happens is irritating).

Set a ping floor or ceiling to receive alerts about players with pings outside of expected values

Start a match on a selected map

Kick a player

Pause the game

Change practice settings

And before the match countdown begins, join the match. All referee actions are broadcast (show up as text on all consoles, including the server console) to prevent cheating. start a match via a menu by picking which map you want

Referees cannot kick other referees. You cannot kick any person of equal or higher value. (refs can kick players, but not refs or rcons. rcons can kick refs, but not rcons)

All referee features are cleared if everyone leaves the server. This is to avoid the problem of forgetful referees, but will not necessarily remove the problem of server-hostile referees. The referee password should be given out only to trusted individuals (though you don't have to trust them quite as much as an rcon, since they can't do any permanent changes).

Command line map change with typo protection, the gotomap command -- gotomap lmctf1 will be checked to see if lmctf1 is in the maplist. If it is (it shouldn't be in this case, lmctf1 is an _incorrect_ selection, lmctf01 would be more useful), but if it is, then the server will transition to that map. This prevents typos on the referee/rcons part, as long as they are confident in their maplist (they better be, the maplist will crash the server if it has typos also). You can now do a similar thing to gotomap in the menus, there is a menu which displays choices from your maplist.txt. This gives us computability with allstar/q2/thunderwalker, as serverops can just copy the map pakfiles into /lmctf/ and then add the maps to their maplist.

retrieve stats quickly, via the command: statsall

retrieve stat for one player: stats player_name_goes_here

// referee commands
gotomap (mapname)
gamemap (mapname)
kick (playername)
users - lists all players by player numbers, thus easier to kick
refmenu pingalert (floor) (ceiling)

6. Practice mode

Along with all the referee options a this allows referee or rcon to freeze one or both flags, allowing one team to play offense while the other plays defense, by preventing the defensive team from taking the offense team's flag. Referee may find the pause function useful in calming down excitable players.

7. Implementing clan skins and models (add-ons)

Skins.ini is an OPTIONAL file letting server operators override which skins/player models are displayed for which team. The file is very simple. It contains two sections, one for red, and one for blue. Each is a list of the exact directory where the skin in question can be found. Since all skins MUST be in a subdirectory of quake2/players, if you wanted to add the female skins "jenny.pcx" to the list of valid skins for the red team, you would write the following in the skins.ini file:
[red]
female/jenny

Note that the above entry is the exact same thing as what your "skin" console variable is set to in order to use the skin in deathmatch mode. The "skinset" console variable is still supported on LM servers, and serves two purposes. First of all, if NO skins.ini file can be found, the skinsets work the way they did under 3.0, giving current servers backward compatibility. Secondly, even if you are using a skins.ini (highly recommended), the skinset variable determines which sounds are played for red and blue captures. A new skinset, skinset 3, was added so the "war" sounds could be supported.

8. Implementing Gibstats

Entering set stdlogfile 1 in your server.cfg turns on standard logging.

set stdlogname "lmctf/Standard.log" names your standard logfile as being Standard.log in the lmctf/ directory under quake2. Unless you set logrename. See below.

set logrename "lmctf" overrides stdlogname. If this variable is set to anything other than "" logging will attempt to create a directory matching this name, and store logfiles there. These logfiles will be named matching the current date, and as a result, will be automatically rotated on a daily basis. For example, the logfile today would be: quake2/lmctf/13Jul1998.log. The logfile is closed at the first end of level which occurs after midnight.

set logfile 1 enables console logging, to lmctf/qconsole.log. This is a standard feature of quake2, and is not modifiable by us, but servers may wish to be aware of this feature.

Automated logfile renaming (either daily or per level) If server sets (in server.cfg):
set logrename "directory_name" logs will then be autonamed by date, and closed at midnight each day. The purpose of this is to enable automated processing of gibstats. Logs will appear in directory matching directory_name, which might typically be set to "lmctf" or "lmctf_logs" or some such.

Editor Info

1. Creating clan models add-ons

The skins.ini file (see server section 8) can be used to allow server operators to support new skins (see below) OR new models. Players may ignore the sample skins.ini files that come with each add-on pack. The requirements of the add-on authors are different depending on which you want.

Adding models requires a few more files. You not only need to have the skins, as above, and the portraits in the pics directory, but you also need to support VWep, the sounds, and supply the model itself. For a "Daemon" model, here is a list of the files you might need:
/players/daemon/a_grenades.md2
/players/daemon/bump1.wav
/players/daemon/death1.wav
/players/daemon/death2.wav
/players/daemon/death3.wav
/players/daemon/death4.wav
/players/daemon/dh-bd1.pcx
/players/daemon/dh-bd1_i.pcx
/players/daemon/dh-rd1.pcx
/players/daemon/dh-rd1_i.pcx
/pics/dh-bd1_i.pcx
/pics/dh-rd1_i.pcx
/players/daemon/drown1.wav
/players/daemon/fall1.wav
/players/daemon/fall2.wav
/players/daemon/gurp1.wav
/players/daemon/gurp2.wav
/players/daemon/jump1.wav
/players/daemon/pain25_1.wav
/players/daemon/pain25_2.wav
/players/daemon/pain50_1.wav
/players/daemon/pain50_2.wav
/players/daemon/pain75_1.wav
/players/daemon/pain75_2.wav
/players/daemon/tris.md2
/players/daemon/w_bfg.md2
/players/daemon/w_blaster.md2
/players/daemon/w_chaingun.md2
/players/daemon/w_glauncher.md2
/players/daemon/w_grapple.md2
/players/daemon/w_hyperblaster.md2
/players/daemon/w_machinegun.md2
/players/daemon/w_railgun.md2
/players/daemon/w_rlauncher.md2
/players/daemon/w_shotgun.md2
/players/daemon/w_sshotgun.md2
/players/daemon/weapon.md2
/players/daemon/weapon.pcx

Then, in your skins.ini, you might add:
[red]
daemon/dh-rd1
[blue]
daemon/dh-bd1

Don't forget to tell server operators which "skinset" setting you want them to use so the proper capture sounds are played. In our case, we might want "skinset 1" so DEMON ROARING sounds are played.

2. Creating clans skin add-ons

The skins.ini file (see server section 8) can be used to allow server operators to support new skins OR new models. The requirements of the add-on authors are different depending on which you want.

To add new skins to a server, merely drop the skin and the portrait into the male or female directory on the server (quake2/baseq2/players/male). IN ADDITION, drop the portraits into the /pics subdirectory, or else players will not be able to see their self portraits. As an example, for a "jenny.pcx" skin you make, you would have the following NEW files on your server to use it:
/players/female/jenny.pcx
/players/female/jenny_i.pcx
/pics/jenny_i.pcx

Next, add the following entry into your skins.ini.
[red]
female/jenny

Now, your "jenny.pcx" is a valid skin for players on the red team to use. Anyone with autodownload will automatically grab this skin. You might wish to publish this skin otherwise, though, to make it faster for people to grab the needed skin.

3. Creating local voice sounds

Sounds should be 16- bit (8-bit will work though) at 22,050 MHz. Put them in a /lmctf/sound/voice/ directory for all the players and the server in question. Use male_ and fem_ as prefixes if you want it to work for different sexes. Local voice sounds now allow you to prefix a "_" in front of the sounds to specify that the sound is non-gender specific. Example: play_voice _hello would play the wav file _hello.wav Note the sound file itself must have the _ in front of it. Also, you can specify to play the male gender: play_voice male_hello would play male_hello.wav

4. Creating team radio sounds

Sounds should be 16-bit (8-bit will work though) at 22,050 MHz. Put them in a /lmctf/sound/radio/ directory for all the players and the server in question. Use male_ and fem_ as filename prefixes if you want it to work for different sexes. Team radio sounds now allow you to prefix a "_" in front of the sounds to specify that the sound is non-gender specific. Example: play_team _die would play the wav file _die.wav Note the sound file itself must have the _ in front of it. Also, you can specify to play the male gender: play_team male_die would play male_die.wav

5. Custom Entities

Two new entities have been added to LMCTF.

info_position: This entity is supported by the autotext feature as %p or %P. Place one in each area of your map. An example:
"classname" "info_position"
"message" "by blue waterfall"
"origin" "100 20 75"

Your autotext print might be: "I have flag %p." Everyone reads: "I have flag west of at the blue waterfall."

There are two spawn flags for this entity. Spawnflags: "1" will require a player to have line of site to the entity. Spawnflags: "2" will disregard any location information (north of, south of, etc.).
An example:
"classname" "info_position"
"message" "at the blue waterfall"
"origin" "100 20 75"
"spawnflags" "3"

Your autotext print might be: "I have flag %p." You get: "I have flag at the blue waterfall." only if you're in line of site from the entity.

func_explosive: This is the single player exploding wall entity which has been modified to respawn using a "speed" key. If you don't use the "speed" key your walls will only appear in single player mode. An example:
"classname" "func_explosive"
"health" "1"
"speed" "30"
"dmg" "10"
"mass" "75"
This will create an exploding wall which respawns after 30 seconds. To prevent players from getting stuck inside the wall when it respawns, use a 'trigger_hurt' in conjunction with each 'func_explosive'. A caution about debris setting, internet connections may get too-large packet sizes by too many entity polygons causing the familiar "disconnect" icon to appear in the corner of the screen. Very low debris reduces chance of this happening.

All the other LMCTF entity names are the same as the Q2CTF entity names. Efforts have also been made to render deathmatch starts, teleport destinations, and flag bases both invisible and immaterial (walk-through). Spawn flags for them are the following:
spawnflags 0 = visible base with solid properties (default)
spawnflags 1 = invisible base
spawnflags 2 = immaterial base
spawnflags 3 = both invisible and immaterial
Red Flag "classname" "item_flag_team1"
Blue Flag "classname" "item_flag_team2"
Red team start "classname" "info_player_team1"
Blue team start "classname" "info_player_team2"
Red banner "classname" "misc_ctf_banner"
Blue banner "classname" "misc_ctf_banner" "spawnflags" "1"
Small red banner "classname" "misc_ctf_small_banner" Small blue banner "classname" "misc_ctf_small_banner" "spawnflags" "1"

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