No Luck With Fifth Starting Point

posted on February 23rd, 2009, 5:39 am

I've been trying to make a five-player map, but i'm unable to get my game to recognise the Fifth-Player slot...

I've placed five points, and named them as i've read they should be named (Camera_1, Camera_2, Camera_3, Camera_4, Camera_5) but the map still considers itself to be a four-player map.

As an experiment, i tried deleting point Four and point Five, then switching their positions and recreating them. But when i tested in Instant Action, with "fixed starting points" selected, the only difference was that the new 4th-player position (the old location of player 5) now was an option as a start-point, while the new 5th-player position (the old 4th-player location, which had been accessable before) simply didn't exist.

So, i guess my conclusion is that for some reason the map believes it can only support four players, no matter the number of starting-points... Anyone run into something similar before? Any tips?

posted on February 23rd, 2009, 5:40 am

i didnt think there was any such thing as 5 player maps

posted on February 23rd, 2009, 7:55 am

Did you also set the first 5 positions to "player" and then the final 3 positions to "empty"?

It's also worth noting that every time you fiddle with the starting locations on the map, you need to reopen the config menu (Ctrl+R) and the hit "OK" otherwise when you save and and then load, it won't register the changes.

posted on February 23rd, 2009, 9:29 pm

Ah Phoenix, fantastic.

I think it was the first step you mentioned that was my handicap, but i followed both suggestions and whichever one i was ignoring is now rectified. All's working now - Thanks a million

posted on February 25th, 2009, 3:00 am

i didnt think there was any such thing as 5 player maps

There were non because they weren't made.

posted on February 25th, 2009, 6:30 am

i saw that there are some in FO

[Jarod]

posted on February 26th, 2009, 4:44 am

Last edited by Jarod on February 26th, 2009, 4:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

There were non because they weren't made.

they were...

for FO2:
Rabbit
//www.fleetops.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,3/topic,1166.msg28747/#msg28747

for FO3 PRErelease:
Boundary (50.000x50.000)
//www.fleetops.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,3/topic,1166.msg48343/#msg48343

posted on February 28th, 2009, 12:48 pm

they were...

for FO2:
Rabbit
//www.fleetops.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,3/topic,1166.msg28747/#msg28747

for FO3 PRErelease:
Boundary (50.000x50.000)
//www.fleetops.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,3/topic,1166.msg48343/#msg48343

So they are stock maps are they? Because I was talking about stock, as in cam with the game not the mod.