[idea] Dynamic maplists

[Dokujisan]

Throwing another idea into the mix.

I was wondering if there was a way to have the maplist adjust depending on how many players there were. So if there are only 4-6 players, then the "3v3-or-less" maps would appear on the map voting list. If there were 16 players, then the maps that can handle 16 players will appear on the map voting list.

Of course, this would be setup ahead of time by the server admin.
Perhaps multiple maplists?

Or perhaps someone out there with more technical knowledge of Nexuiz could come up with a better variation of this idea.

[[-z-]]

I'm pretty sure this is achievable with the addition of a cvar, g_maplist_dynamic_size which if set true, would create it's pool based on the current number of players. This may even be done automagically based on the information provided by .mapinfo

otherwise,

g_maplist_small, g_maplist_medium, g_maplist_large may be in order.

[Ronan]

This kind of feature have been existed since 2 years, but it's not well know because it's kinda undocumented.

How it's working :
- you don't need to modify your maplist
- create a file in data/ called mapname.sizes (like mapname.cfg or mapname.mapinfo) with first line minplayers, and second line maxplayers.
example for a large map :

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8
16

example for a small map :

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0
6

- then the map will only appear on the vote screen if the required number of players is reached.
- you don't need to do this for all maps, just the ones you want to tweak.


Also an interesting cvar was added in svn :
g_maplist_check_waypoints: when 1 and the server is not full enough to play bot-less, maps without waypoints will be skipped

[Dokujisan]

Thank you very much Ronan!

I'll try that out tonight.

[[-z-]]

Great information as always Ronan!