Spring RTS Engine

Is it possible that SPADS 0.8.1f doesn't tell the lobby the value of the "Max units" setting?

All the other mod/engine options seem fine but while SpringLobby tells me Max units is set to its default value (500) on [knb]autohost1, the script.txt I get from the host says 32000.

Also: The modopion "mo_noowner" (FFA Mode) in BA was not set at all in that script.txt. While that is fine, it's a little weird since all the other options are in there even if they are set to their default values.

edit: SPADS 0.8.2e as user Spads3 seems to report the value for Max units just fine.

MelTraX wrote:Is it possible that SPADS 0.8.1f doesn't tell the lobby the value of the "Max units" setting?

All the other mod/engine options seem fine but while SpringLobby tells me Max units is set to its default value (500) on [knb]autohost1, the script.txt I get from the host says 32000.

edit: SPADS 0.8.2e as user Spads3 seems to report the value for Max units just fine.

I just tested with SpringLobby and TASClient. Indeed SpringLobby shows the default maxunits value (500) when joining the battle. However TASClient shows the correct maxunits value (32000).
And when TASClient debug mode is enabled, one can see the maxunit tag is correctly sent by the server:

game/modoptions/maxunits=32000

Maybe SpringLobby has an internal high limit for this setting

MelTraX wrote:Also: The modopion "mo_noowner" (FFA Mode) in BA was not set at all in that script.txt. While that is fine, it's a little weird since all the other options are in there even if they are set to their default values.

Indeed this is weird (actually the "mo_noowner" tag isn't even sent in the lobby). Maybe this is due to a specific SPADS configuration ? (other SPADS autohosts don't lack this setting in startscript).

edit: yeah, checked with andre, this was due to an inconsistent modoption configuration.

Been having a chat with BrainDamage. It's actually wrong behavior in SPADS and TASClient since EngineOptions.lua clearly states that the max value for Max units is 10000.

EngineOptions.lua is out of date, the engine's global unit limit is 32000 now (so for a two-player game without Gaia, the real engine-enforced team limit would actually be 16000, not 10000). Lobbies should interpret the EO value as a recommendation, rather than a strict upper bound.

Why is that? Max value is a max value. If the engine supports more now, just update the EngineOptions.lua definition.