Hosting your own dedicated server

[Jamie - Virtual Basement]

Hosting your own Mean Greens server is a very simple process. Here's what you need to do.

Before you begin

Make sure Steam is not running on the machine you are planning on running the server.

You can also run multiple instances of the server on a single machine, each instance uses about 600mb of ram

Please note that if you are hosting more than one instance on a machine you will need to change the port number that's being used in the batch file.

Also if you are on a home network make sure that your firewall is not blocking the ports.

Starting your server

Navigate to your install directory. By default it will look something like this: Steam\steamapps\common\The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare\

In this install directory there's a folder called MeanGreensUserServer.

Inside this folder you fill see a batch file called HostServer.bat if you right click on this file and click EDIT you will be able to adjust the name of your hosted server.

Simply look for the text that reads

-ServerName="User Server"

Change the text that's inside the quotations, save and exit.

Then simply run the batch file and you're server will now be playable!

If you would like to increase your player count, simply add the tag

-MaxPlayers=40

If you would like to password protect your dedicate server add this tag

-ServerPassword="Password Goes Here"

Enjoy, and thanks for playing The Mean Greens

[inforcer]

Any update on when bots are being added

[Switch]

well, this is useful. Thanks!

[Rexoxy Daniel]

Free to play no players plis!!!

[Thurnok]

Any command line options, like how to make it invite only or friends only?

[Vlad.P]

this is only for lan server..how to do a public server?

[Jamie - Virtual Basement]

Originally posted by Vlad.P:

this is only for lan server..how to do a public server?

open the ports on your firewall and others will be able to connect :)

Originally posted by Thurnok:

Any command line options, like how to make it invite only or friends only?

We are discussing the different options as well as private server options. Initial release of the server files was to make sure that they work properly before adding extra features.

[Vlad.P]

Originally posted by Jamie Krautkremer:

Originally posted by Vlad.P:

this is only for lan server..how to do a public server?

open the ports on your firewall and others will be able to connect :)

Originally posted by Thurnok:

Any command line options, like how to make it invite only or friends only?

We are discussing the different options as well as private server options. Initial release of the server files was to make sure that they work properly before adding extra features.

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how to open those ports on firewall ? I really want to help this community with server. I got very good internet connection

[Jamie - Virtual Basement]

it really depends on your router/computer, best advice I can give is to google how to open ports on a firewall and find the information that's most relevant to your equipment. You should be able to easily find a step by step guide

[Nahuy]

Hey, i've properly opened up the 7778 and 27015 ports in my router and in the firewall but i still cant host the server, i have the logs is there anywhere i can send them so i can figure it out what the problem seems to be?

[Bananaman]

We are discussing the different options as well as private server options. Initial release of the server files was to make sure that they work properly before adding extra features.


Please give us a hint on some commands, i've set up a server for my group of friends and
want to tweak it as far as possible to our pleasing.

i'm willing to put some time in testing ;)

thx

[defused]

how can you change the maps ?

[restinpeace]

pls make it happen and let us install it through steamcmd in linux

[DeathCow]

Glad to hear you've given us the option for dedicated servers! Good job.

[DeathCow]

Should be able to open a console command. I know for UE3 game KF2 you can just type open theserverip:port and it connects. I have yet to play this game so don't know what the console commands are but you can access it by pressing the ~ key in game.

[Jamie - Virtual Basement]

console is disabled on purpose