server help

(S}{IT_S}{OT) #1

Can anyone help me, the problem is trying to get a message to appear every 7 minutes or so on the server. I have looked everywhere to find this and just cannot find it.
I have tried the pb_sv_task command to ECHO the message…eg.

pb_sv_task 10 50 “echo ^8[EE] Recruiting”
pb_sv_task 15 50 “echo ^8-== www.executed.co.uk”
pb_sv_task 20 50 “echo ^8Please visit us”

(that was placed in the server.cfg under PB and also written to pbsv file)

and even that doesnt work :banghead:

Any help appreciated.

p.s the 50 was for test purposes only.

(DG) #2

try swapping echo with “say”, might do the trick. Else I think there’s actually some little programs to be found which do it, probably have to use a RTCW one but I dont see why it wouldnt work.

(S}{IT_S}{OT) #3

Thanks for the reply DG , but Im after the message appearing somewhere other than the chat box, Think I have seen it on some servers but cant remember which ones, possibly a little program to do it, ill keep on looking.

(Lekdevil.NL) #4

The feature you’re talking about is probably the Server Messaging from the shrubet mod, which can be downloaded from this site. Here’s the relevant documentation:

Server Messages
Version Added or Last Modified: 1.0
Documentation last modified: 03:54:10 AM Jul 10, 2003
Server messages allows you to cycle a set of messages to be displayed to all players during the game. g_msgs (0) controls the duration, in seconds, between each message. When set to 0, the feature is disabled.

g_msgpos (0) specifies the position of the messages. There are three available: 0 - chat area, 1 - center of the screen, 2 - left “notification” area.

The messages can be set with the g_msg1, g_msg2, …, g_msgn variables, where you may have an unlimited number of messages. They must be set consecutively, however - when a blank message is encountered, the message displayed cycles back to the first one.

(S}{IT_S}{OT) #5

That looks like the one Im looking for, Thanks Lekdevil.NL.