Pause in ET

(russlndr) #1

Is it free for everybody to hit pause? I’m having problems with people pausing my server.

(Stee) #2

Nobody but the admin/ref should be able to pause a game. I’m guessing u have voting rights enabled, including voting for a ref who once “elected” is pausing the game. This can be disabled but having never ran a server I’m not sure how, I’m sure someone else will explain soon. :slight_smile:

(DG) #3

team_nocontrols 1 stops players from being able to /pause, /readyteam etc. 0 allows it. Ref can do it regardless.

match_timeoutcount sets the number of pauses/timeouts each team can call per round, can set to 0 with team_nocontrols 0 to allow /readyteam but not allow any pauses. Does not include pauses set by the Ref.

public server should probably have team_nocontrols 1 (use match_readypercent “0” to eliminate need for /readyteam) and match_timeoutcount 0, clan server should probably have team_nocontrols 0 and match_timeoutcount 2 or so (probably higher since rounds can be 30min!).

Additionally, match_timeoutlength sets the duration of the pause, on clanserver set it to however long you want the max pause duration to be - ref or the team that paused it can still unpause [“timein” or “unpause”]at any time though. Set it anyway to something reasonable so teams cant piss you about too much, forcing them to use another of their timeouts if they want longer.