Author Topic: Help with console commands (plus weird sitation on crashes)  (Read 537 times)

OK. lets just say, the game runs on my computer, but for some weird reason it crashes every now and then (only the display of the game itself). I found a way around this by using a dedicated server so that only I crash but the server stays up. First off, the crash is due to a Driver incompatibility from Vista and my Video card, and this problem cannot be avoided unless Vista releases a patch, which I highly doubt because torque engine is not a newer game. I researched the problem and its how vista has a timeout feature and if the video display does not respond within so much time, it automatically resets (thus causing Blockland to crash). If I turn the feature off, it will completely kill everything, so that's a big no. And if I set the timeout delay to any other time, it just still does it but takes longer to respond. The crashes are very rare, but when they do happen it sucks, and its why I'm resorting to running dedicated servers and then just going to them.

Anyway, now that you know my situation, you will understand why I'm asking how to do the next things.

I want to know how to do the following via console.

Kick a random player (in the event server is full and I need to get back on)
Load blocks
Save blocks

OH, and I also want to know how to make a message to all players via console, so I can warn that the server is shutting down.

I think it's
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talk("text");

Kick a random player (in the event server is full and I need to get back on)

You could do $pref::server::maxPlayers++ to increase the playercount... might be a bit easier.

OK, thanks for the help so far.

Oddly enough, it never crashed today even though I played for 10 hours or more.