BF3: Starting the game with less than 7 players?

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BF3: Starting the game with less than 7 players?

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I have a virtual server hosting BF3 (I don't seem to have permission to start a new thread in the BF3 forum) and would like to know how to get the game started with less than 7 players.. preferably 0 players - but otherwise 2.

At the moment each time I log in to my empty server I get a message saying something a long the lines of map cannot start until a minimum of players are present.

Is this possible, if so can someone please advise?
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Re: BF3: Starting the game with less than 7 players?

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You can't post in the Knowledgebase. You can post in other forums.

On the "Easy setup" page in the control panel, lower "Round start player count" to 1 and lower "Preround start player count" to 0.
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Many thanks :D
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Re: BF3: Starting the game with less than 7 players?

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Would this kill your server's availability on Quick Match? If not, what is the lowest pre-round setting that I can use? I've tried putting "4" before but it still waited for 8 before we could move around.
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It doesn't currently appear to affect Quickmatch. It may require a server restart, or at least a mapchange, to take effect. Make sure to adjust the preround start player count to 0 at the same time.
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