show maps for vote based on number of players in server

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What would you like to see changed?

Allow the maps that come up in the vote to be based on the number of players in 
the server at the time of the vote.

Why do you want this change made?

So there aren't problems like only 4 people on the server and they vote for a 
huge map. It's likely they'll quickly leave afterwards due to the size 
disconnect.

What version of the plugin are you using?

1.1.290

Please provide any additional information below.

This has been requested by multiple people.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jones.p....@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2010 at 4:04

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Found the following written up by Vittu in early 2006:

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=205071#post205071
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That was an old form of custom map configs, using mapcycle like a server.cfg 
(though I think server.cfg would overwite if it had the same cvars as in the 
mapcycle).
Essentially it worked like this:
map_name "\servercvar\value"
For example:
de_dust "\minplayers\4\maxplayers\12\sv_alltalk\0\mp_ 
friendlyfire\1\mp_timelimit\45"

In the above example. What minplayers and maxplayers do is when the map changes 
to that map in the mapcycle, it will check if there are between 4-12 players. 
If there are not, it will go to the next map in the mapcycle that will allow 
the amount of players that did not fit in that range. And so on and so on until 
it finds something that will allow the amount of players. (Both parameters are 
not required) Again I have no idea if this still works and I'm not gonna bother 
testing. I know this is still used in NS, usually to skip less popluar maps in 
the mapcycle if there are not enough players playing.
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Probably a good idea to follow an already established, if not deprecated, 
standard when adding "per map" features to Galileo, like is being asked in this 
issue.

Original comment by jones.p....@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2010 at 2:34

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If testing confirms that mods ignore information in quotations after the map 
name, that'd be an optimal way to modify map list files (i.e. mapcycle.txt) so 
as to not be a problem if someone modifies their file to take advantage of 
Gal's per map features and then uninstalls Gal. The idea is that they could use 
the same file they had marked up as the mods won't choke on the extra 
information.

Original comment by jones.p....@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2010 at 2:36

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Accidentally closed wrong issue. Reopening.

Original comment by jones.p....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 7:37

• Changed state: Accepted