Server showing as 'custom' - why?

[PackerFan_68]

Wondering if you helpful folks can review our startup.txt and let me know if you see any reason why the server shows as Custom instead of the Normal in BL. Is it because vars.gamemodecounter is set to 75?
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/se ... s-org-NFO/

vars.preset Normal
punkBuster.activate
vars.teamKillCountForKick 5
vars.teamKillValueForKick 4
vars.teamKillValueIncrease 1
vars.teamKillValueDecreasePerSecond 0
vars.killCam true
vars.miniMap true
vars.3dSpotting true
vars.3pCam true
vars.maxPlayers 64
vars.idleBanRounds 0
vars.vehicleSpawnAllowed true
vars.vehicleSpawnDelay 100
vars.nameTag true
vars.regenerateHealth true
vars.roundRestartPlayerCount 0
vars.roundStartPlayerCount 4
vars.onlySquadLeaderSpawn false
vars.soldierHealth 100
vars.hud true
vars.playerRespawnTime 100
vars.gameModeCounter 75
vars.serverMessage "Welcome to Free Beer & Bourbon Chicago by jrks.org"
reservedSlotsList.aggressiveJoin true
vars.roundLockdownCountdown 10
vars.roundWarmupTimeout 600
vars.maxSpectators 4
vars.hitIndicatorsEnabled true
vars.commander true
vars.forceReloadWholeMags false
vars.alwaysAllowSpectators true
vars.friendlyFire false

Thanks for any guidance.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

Pretty sure that is your issue. EA does not want us changing ticket times either..... They basically do not want any changes from what they deem is the appropriate settings to give players the best experience. I wanted to add tickets to ours and we showed up as custom.. annoying as hell.

Try changing that back to default and restart the server and see what you appear as. Also make sure you have a map preset selected in the easy server setup area.

[PackerFan_68]

Thanks. Trying setting it at 100 and restarting now.

So even to run as "Normal" we need to have tickets set to default? Kinda sucks as most of our guys prefer slightly shorter rounds so they can play more of the maps during the evening.

Also, we have to run the complete list of ConquestLarge maps to be considered 'Normal'? We've temporarily removed lancang dam, Golmud, and Shanghai as those seem to have the most issues like sound loss, disconnects, etc.

Hopefully the client patch fixes the issues with these maps so we can add 'em back in.

[PackerFan_68]

Hmmm...setting gamemodecounter to 100 and restarting didn't do the trick.

maybe it's the map rotation after all. Whatever, we don't seem to have a problem filling it up when we get a few of us on there to seed it.

[Sabn0ck]

try putting vars.preset Normal at bottom of startup.txt
and you dont have to have all the normal vars in there if you have the vars,preset Normal, it will run normal with only that.

[PackerFan_68]

try putting vars.preset Normal at bottom of startup.txt

That did the trick, thanks! I was even able to keep our gamemodecounter at 75 and it still shows 'Normal'. Now I need to test to see if the ticket count actually sticks at 75% or if it gets changed to 100 by the Normal var.

[[WDT]TardFarmer]

It will get changed to 100% That's what happens with mine. I try to drop the tickets a bit also with the large maps and no luck, reverts back to 800 tickets or so.

[Edge100x]

If you go to the Easy setup page and click "Set normal" or one of the others, that will also fix your settings to be what the game needs them to be for that mode.

[PackerFan_68]

It will get changed to 100% That's what happens with mine. I try to drop the tickets a bit also with the large maps and no luck, reverts back to 800 tickets or so.

Bummer. Although I guess it doesn't really matter if it's listed as 'custom' or 'normal' as only the "official" servers get QuickMatch traffic, correct?

Thanks for the response!

EDIT - thanks Edge. I'm assuming that will set the ticket count to 100%, though.

[Edge100x]

EDIT - thanks Edge. I'm assuming that will set the ticket count to 100%, though.

Correct. They require it to be 100 for anything not Custom right now, though it's not documented.

[Sabn0ck]

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[TimSad]

That's weird! Because my servers are running vars.gameModeCounter at higher than 100 yet I'm still showing up as Normal. Perhaps it's because I'm still running just these variables in my Startup that has something to do with it...

[jaythegreat1]

Is there some trick to Rush servers showing as Normal?

[jaythegreat1]

Hmmm.... okay looks like commander setting was causing it. But I see Rush Servers without a commander that are Normal?

[TimSad]

For some reason, when my Obliteration/Rush server comes upon a Rush map, it sends my server into Custom. Haven't really dug into it to figure out why and I do have commanders allowed for it.