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Start a server To start a server is a little more complex than joining a game, but not very hard. If you're going to start a server where you will play yourself, you start Elite Squad Arena as usual. You'll see the main menu: Click 'Start a game'. You'll see the map selection screen: Pick the map you want to run, and click next. You'll see the server options menu:
Here you can type the different settings of your server, here's a quick guide to each of the settings:
After you've set these things, click 'Fight!' and play!
If you want to run a dedicated server, it's a little different. Use this command line to start the server: quake3 +set dedicated 2 +set fs_game esa +exec esaserver.cfg +set bot_enable 0 The +set dedicated 2 tells Quake 3 that it's a Internet server, and shows your server in the in-game server browser. If you want to run a dedicated server on a Local Area Network (LAN), you should type +set dedicated 1 instead. +set game esa tells Quake 3 that it should load Elite Squad Arena instead of the regular Quake 3. +exec esaserver.cfg tells Quake 3 to load the file esaserver.cfg. It's located in your esa folder, and you'll find the map cycle and much other things in that file. Open it with wordpad or some other text editor and change the values to your own. +set bot_enable 0 tells Quake 3 not to load any bot files. Elite Squad Arena hasn't any bot support yet, and when Quake 3 searches for files that doesn't exist, it could crash. When you've started the server, it could look like this: If you have problems with running a server, please drop a note in our messageboard, located on pur website, http://www.planetquake.com/esa, so can we take a look at the problem.
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