BWAdmin 1.03 and Time Weirdness?

[old.UUMickey]

I recently switched from Linux to Windows for my server, but this happens under both platforms. I am running BWAdmin 1.03 and when I attempt to change the time limit in the game, the time limit will change... but it will subtract the time already played from the new time I chose. For example: we've played 4 minutes. I reset the time limit to 60 minutes. The resulting time left on the HUD will be 56 minutes.

I've been able to replicate this with different Admins, so I do not think the problem is on my client side (I am running BWClient 1.01 as well). Any thoughts?

 

[old.Ewan]

Umm, this is the nomal behaviour

If you start a game thats meant to last 30 minutes, but it is accidentally set to 20mins time limt, youd want it to subtract any time played so far when you changed it to the correct time.

Ewan

 

[old.UUMickey]

But what if I had set the game to 30 minutes, played 25 of them, and by popular demand, wanted to extend the time limit another 30? I couldn't, could I?

 

[old.Ewan]

Of course you could, simply extend the time to 60mins.

 

[old.Zenith]

Yes you can.

If you've played 25 minutes of a 30 minute time limit, you would typically have 5 minutes left (simple maths). Changing the timelimit to 60 minutes would then make the game have 35 minutes of that current map. The next map in the cycle would have a full 60 minutes.

I use BWadmin/BWclient as well and find that there is no problem changing the time limit to extend a popular map. If I'm actually on the server though, I tend to shove the limit back down to 30 minutes early on during the next map.
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[old.Stabs]

How many times have you succesfully managed to get a vote to change it back to 30 mins to work? It only seems to take 2 or 3 people to stop a vote from passing making it very hard to get things back to 30 mins, which pretty much empties the server when you get to a map like tombstone and a few people are hellbent on keeping the 60 mins time limit.

60 min time limit on a pubbys dont work and imo shouldnt be allowed unless it gets reset to the default 30 minutes automatically the next round.

 

[old.Crunchy]

I'm going to add an option where voted time limit only lasts for one map.