SpawnPoint

Current trials and tribulations? The darn tribbles that got into the Zombie Mod 2 server.  For those of you unaware, its been having some wicked issues with connecting that seem to be problematic to correct.  Any suggestions on this are of course welcome.

So, I was on a server spectating for a bit and had a player try and use the console awp buying exploit where you bypass weapon restrictions in mani.. Needless to say I fired up the admin and told him to knock it off. Of course, like most exploiters he didn't so I was forced to temp ban him for a few hours so that he could see his behavior wasn't tolerated on SpawnPoint servers.

Another issue I've been dealing with is bandwidth on some of the SpawnPoint servers due to the downloadable pc games including the last chaos download and wow client that SpawnPoint has been hosting. For those interested the Last Chaos client, which Spawnpoint had an exclusive on for the weekend is found here, Last Chaos Client Download and the wow full client (world of warcraft client) is found here, Wow Client Download

Also, an interesting note, SpawnPoint served up alot of bandwidth over the weekend with hosting the Last Chaos download. Below is the complete amount
Downloads Distributed: 16,027
Bandwidth Served: 6,698 gigabytes, or 6.5 terabytes
Average Download Speed: 781 KB/sec

So with all this extra traffic being sent out it really put a strain on the network and caused a few glitches. Fortunately though downloads of other free pc games did not seem to be affected and therefore people still got their content in a reasonable fashion. I suppose through this a single question remains. Will SpawnPoint continue to offer users the ability to download pc games, or just to download games in general? The answer, Of course.

Tony, Christoph and I are over at Tony's LANing it up doing some games and code for SpawnPoint.  We've made a supplies run, grabbed 4 2Ls and some Popcorn Chicken, with some Cinnamon buns.  For the record? Those were great cinnamon buns.  Toph's getting drunk already pouring Dr. Pepper into the Rum bottle with a paper funnel.  We've cracked open The Lion King soundtrack and listened to that for awhile.  Now we're watching episodes of the Office  Oh Yeah.  LAN goodness.

SpawnPoint Xfire Team!
Link: http://www.xfire.com/clans/spawnpoint/

Everybody is welcome to join!

Currently working on a frustrating problem. To be honest? I hate Mani. With a passion. The software is horribly buggy and sometimes just doesn't do what it is supposed to despite all configuration attempts. I understand that it's in beta, but I also think the project has been abandoned by the developer and therefore Spawnpoint needs to start investigating a new and more stable method of managing the servers. A quick search has turned up a possibility, (Once they get around to adding the SQL functionality into this plugin.) called SourceMod. http://www.sourcemod.net/
Anyways, as for the actual problem, despite the fact that the server is configured correctly the TK Punishment Menu does not load for the victim if you TK them. Incredibly weird since it is a single variable to change in the mani_server.cfg file and it is set correctly there. (Even a quick variable check proves that it is being set correctly.)

Went for a meeting with Christoph and Tony, we discussed some important stuff to creating a faster and easier way to deploy changes to the SpawnPoint network, between the cop raids, consumption of pizza and episodes of The Office.

My profile/bio on the site here has been updated.  Link

I'm currently working on planning a script that will allow us to deploy new features and changes globally to the Spawnpoint server network.

Script

Pulls down a directory and all subdirectories over the internet.
Pulls down all files in these directories.
Uses a secure authentication method.
Copies this entire directory to several local locations.
Overwrites files when copying.
List of destination directories to copy varies per server.
Easy to modify destination directory list.
Seperate Second script to pull down a specific file and copy it to multiple directories.
This script uses the same directory list file as the first script.
Only a single destination script file to modify (Both scripts must use this destination directory list file.)
First script executes another script that it pulls down over the net.

Both scripts must be able to be scheduled via Windows Scheduler.

As you might have noticed, (especially if you are reading this blog, as thats new with this site) the Spawnpoint website recently had an upgrade. It seems to work quite well save for a few glitches, and shows great promise after those bugs are worked out. My biggest complaint would have to be the fact that I have to learn a whole new site again.. jeez. On a good note, the fact that thats my biggest complaint seems to speak really well for the quality of this new site.