ut4_dicks killing the server

[JRandomNoob]

Starting today (with the new mapcycle) ut4_dicks causes all players go 999 with the “bad command byte” error. We shall set up appropriate facilities for punishing Pirat for his shenanigans with maps in short order.

(But seriously, avoid allowing dicks to load at all costs — if !nextmap shows it, set anything else, if a vote is called, veto immediately.)

[HumppaLakki]

Thats new. Never had Problems with that map before.

How many players where connected at this time? Sometimes this error is related to the size of the map.

[natirips]

So I was not the only one who got "bad command byte".

[Samtron]

Just played ut4_dicks half an hour ago and had no problems while loading and playing...

[havoc]

well there was a problem, i was there with j and we tested it and there was problem again.
so ye there was a problem.

[wurst]

hm...
restart serwer?

[JRandomNoob]

How many players where connected at this time? Sometimes this error is related to the size of the map.

I saved two pages of server monitor showing only 999 players; first one has 25, the second (deliberate attempt to get the error by setting Dicks as nextmap while playing Sanctuary) full 34 players. When Dicks turned out to be playable nonetheless, there were I think 18 players at one point, but I only noticed it on the DSWP bar after they had been playing this for seven minutes.

Not enough spawns?!? The fact that after some five minutes or so players could connect again (when most of the zombies time out) sure hints at this… could changing the “small cycle” criteria fix the problem? (Then again, I’m pretty sure Dicks is one of the least liked votable maps here, due to its 3.x era lighting.)

[zietsh]

I had "bad command byte" error on other maps before but on ut4_dicks it was different because when i reconnected it worked which did not work for me before when i saw "bad command byte" on my screen....

[PingoSuSE]

just tried to connect to server and guess what ... it's dicks and I've got bad command byte. I see other players on server (25 of them) but I can't get in . Tried several times but every time bad command byte

[havoc]

demo or it didnt happen!