[paelleon (old)]

I've looked and looked,and it appears as if you cannot randomise the mapcycle.

So I was thinking. What if I got a program to randomise the list of maps, and replace mapcycle.txt in the background. Would that work? As I understand it, Urban Terror goes into the mapcycle, and finds the map just played. It then loads the next map, or the first map if the last played map was at the end of the document. So if I replaced mapcycle.txt mid game, would it load the new mapcycle at the end of the round?

[L3mMinG (old)]

Try it and let us know

[paelleon (old)]

I'd love to except I'm not sure if i have the skillz to do the whole randomise and write to txt thing ... I could try in excel, but that's where my knowledge both begins and ends.

[Woekele]

Yes, I think it would work.

[[B3]Courgette]

so the server is not caching the mapcycle file content (as it does for the banlist file) ?

[Woekele]

No, I think it doesn't.

Though you'd have to try to make sure.

[Loanna (old)]

I can confirm it works.

If you change g_mapcycle during a game, it will be effective instantly.


For example you have mapcycle1.txt with :

turnpike, abbey, uptown and casa.

And mapcycle2.txt with :

elgin, abbey, algiers and ramelle.

You're on abbey with the mapcycle1, if you change it to mapcycle2 during teh round, at teh end it will load algiers.

[will35010 (old)]

You could just set a cron job for this on linux.

[paelleon (old)]

Well, my minor skillz in excel allowed me to write a vba macro to randomise and rewrite the mapcycle.txt every 75 seconds. and it works. Now if only i could program in a more memory usage friendly way ...

[Rambetter]

Do you use Linux?  I posted my randomizer a while back but I could do it again I suppose.