HOW TO RUN A MECHINA SERVER:

First, in order to have all of the new Super Admin functions available to you, copy the mechinaAdminClient.cs file to the Tribes2/GameData/Base/Scripts/autoexec directory of your client install. Also, if you do not have MechinaClient.vl2 in the Tribes2/GameData/Base directory of your client installation, you will not be able to use the new Admin features.

The minimum recommended system is a P 3 400 with 128 megs of ram.  The bigger the mod gets, the more memory it will consume, keep that in mind.

First off make a second install of tribes 2 to run the server from.  You can copy the patches from your client install and run them on that version.

*****NOTE******

NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER PLAY THE GAME FROM YOUR CLEAN SERVER INSTALL!!!  AND NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU RUN CLIENT SCRIPTS ON A SERVER!!!!!!

Now then since this new install will only be used to run servers from, THE ONLY .DSO FILES IN IT”S DIRECTORY STRUCTURE SHOULD BE IN THE MOD FOLDERS.  There should never be any .dso’s in the GameData\base\  sub-directories.  If there are, then stop running a client from that install, and delete them.

Next download the newest Mechina ZIP file. Unzip the file to your Tribes2/GameData directory. The Mechina dir will be created under GameData/Mechina.

I only release .dos’s for the mod files, do not delete those.  They will all be contained in the Mechina directory.  The reason I do not release the .cs files, is because I am not going to share my code with every n00bie wanna-be modder.  I am attempting to go in a different direction than previous mods, and that would be ruined if every 2nd mod out there were using my code.

To run a dedicated online server:


Go into Tribes2/GameData/ right click/ drag Ispawn.exe to desktop to create a shortcut.
Right click /select properties
in the target box, right after ispawn.exe paste the following:

28000 tribes2.exe +exec serverPrefs.cs -dedicated -mod Mechina

To run a dedicated Lan server:

Go into Tribes2/GameData/ right click/ drag to desktop ispawn.exe to create a shortcut.
Right click the icon/select properties
in the target box, right after ispawn.exe paste the following:

28000 tribes2.exe -nologin -dedicated -mod Mechina


And while I do not under any circumstances recommend you do the following, here is how you do it:

 

 

To run the mod offline WITHOUT making a dedicated server.

Go into Tribes2/GameData/ right click/ drag to desktop tribes2.exe to create a shortcut.
Rightclick the icon/select properties
in the target box, right after tribes2.exe paste the following:

-nologin -mod Mechina

after T2 loads then under the game tab, go to the host sub tab, and host a game.

Report bugs to: founder@mechina.com

To run the mod online WITHOUT making a dedicated server. Also known as a Listen server.

NOTE: This is a VERY BAD way to run a server, any client scripts you have will cause problems with the mod. If you run a server in this manner, DO NOT contact me about your problems, as the mod was not designed to run as a listen server, and I will not support it.

Go into Tribes2/GameData/ right click/ drag to desktop tribes2.exe to create a shortcut.
Rightclick the icon/select properties
in the target box, right after tribes2.exe paste the following:

-online -mod Mechina -login

after T2 loads then under the game tab, go to the host sub tab, and host a game.

Report bugs to: founder@mechina.com