How can I allow more than 4 players...?

[John Elliott CS1998]

I am considering setting up a simple Quake 1 server on a LAN and I was
wondering the console command which allows more than 4 players to play
in the deathmatch.

Thanks in advance,
John Elliott

[Tad]

In your config file, put this

set maxclients 16

or whatever number you want.

John Elliott CS1998 wrote in message <363899D0...@cs.strath.ac.uk>...

[Ben Apgar]

John Elliott CS1998 wrote in message <363899D0...@cs.strath.ac.uk>...
>I am considering setting up a simple Quake 1 server on a LAN and I was
>wondering the console command which allows more than 4 players to play
>in the deathmatch.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>John Elliott

In Quake II it's:

maxclients <number>

Then it says "maxclients will be changed for the next game"
Then you have to type:

newgame

Of course this doesn't always work for some reason (I don't know why) try it
and find out.
(By the way, if you want to run a mod try typing "game <foldername>" where
foldername is the name of the mod)

In q2 you can also set it when you are setting up your server. (Yes I know
you said Quake I)

-Ben
Hey, wait a minute, this is a Quake II newsgroup!

[Chuck Farley]

I thought for Quake 1 it was "-listen (#)" for the number of clients to
connect?? Anyone remember??

Chuck F

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[John Wolanski]

This is correct.

Chuck Farley wrote:
> I thought for Quake 1 it was "-listen (#)" for the number of clients to
> connect?? Anyone remember??

> >John Elliott CS1998 wrote in message <363899D0...@cs.strath.ac.uk>...
> >>I am considering setting up a simple Quake 1 server on a LAN and I was
> >>wondering the console command which allows more than 4 players to play
> >>in the deathmatch.

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[Svend Erik Lindgaard]

You are almost correct. To allow more than 4 players you have to start quake
from a command line like this : quake.exe -listen 8

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[Leon Strand]

Don't forget that with -listen n, you're setting up a non-dedicated Quake
server, which will be unfair to every machine except the server.
Try -dedicated n instead, which will just display a text-based console,
resulting in faster and fairer gameplay for all. A 486 works fine for this,
I've tried it numerous times and there's even something about using a 486 in
the Quake docs.
-Leon Strand
lp...@cornell.edu

[Tad]

Correction, this is for QuakeWorld.... I don't know about plain Quake.

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[Mark Burlison]

Leon Strand wrote:
>
> Don't forget that with -listen n, you're setting up a non-dedicated Quake
> server, which will be unfair to every machine except the server.
> Try -dedicated n instead, which will just display a text-based console,
> resulting in faster and fairer gameplay for all. A 486 works fine for this,
> I've tried it numerous times and there's even something about using a 486 in

Even over a LAN?

Mark

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[Trejkaz]

In article <8642B20D6FDB491F.255C57F2...@library-proxy.airnews.net>, "Tad" <t...@pcpieces.com> wrote:
> Correction, this is for QuakeWorld.... I don't know about plain Quake.

Try http://www.planetquake.com/console/, they have the full listing of all the
console commands and command-line options for QuakeWorld.

Trejkaz

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