Mission name standard

[NoRailgunner]

don't forget to write the "readme" file

[celoush]

And now for ADDONS.

[Celery]

Hmm this doesnt really go with the (cr)CTI mission naming standard we thought of ourself...

crCTI 1.0 @DVD 1.1 Central Everon
would become:

CTI@ 28 crCTI 1.0 DVD 1.1 Central Everon
or more strict
DVD CTI@ 28 crCTI Central Everon 1.0 1.1

wich is quite unreadable. and has 2 times CTI in it.

so while this is a good idea for most missions, it isnt really good for readability for complex missions with sub-mods of it.

and second, I like to sort the list by mission name so I have a list of all CTI missions that are playing. but now I get a list ordered by mod OR mission type...

I guess crCTI can pass as its own game type and since DVD's addon pack is a specific "submod" for the map, the name doesn't need to change much to fit the standard neatly.

These are my suggestions:
crCTI 1.0@ 28 DVD 1.1 Central Everon
crCTI@ 28 DVD 1.1 Central Everon 1.0

In practise only the @ sign needs to move and a player amount should be introduced for the map names to follow the standard. In principle DVD 1.1 would be part of the mission name to signify what kind of "edition" it is.

The location of version number depends on if the game mode's version or the map's version is in question. I'm not an expert in crCTI so I guess you know it better. I do know that Frantic.bay gives version names for his CTF maps according to the version of the whole script system, and the number is in the end of the name. It does look neater that way in my opinion.

[MEDICUS]

Nice concept, but wouldn't it be better to use "_" instead of space?
Like this:
crCTI_1.0@_28_DVD_1.1_Central_Everon

I know, that Windows handels maps with a space in their name very good, but afaik Linux had some troulbles to handel maps like this.
Would be good to add this from the beginning ... Linux-Servers will hopefully appear soon

MfG Medicus

[Celery]

Nice concept, but wouldn't it be better to use "_" instead of space?
Like this:
crCTI_1.0@_28_DVD_1.1_Central_Everon

I know, that Windows handels maps with a space in their name very good, but afaik Linux had some troulbles to handel maps like this.
Would be good to add this from the beginning ... Linux-Servers will hopefully appear soon

MfG Medicus

That's what we're doing with the filenames. The actual mission names require no underscores because they are inside mission.sqm.

[MEDICUS]

That's what we're doing with the filenames. The actual mission names require no underscores because they are inside mission.sqm.

Ah ok, I see.

MfG Medicus

[hardrock]

Very nice thread, but I would suggest putting the example mission names in lowercase (and maybe underscores) too so this aspect is clearer. We on the CiA server spent a lot of times renaming MP missions cause they either contained uppercase letters or spaces. And your note below might get lost.

Great initiative!

[Celery]

I would suggest putting the example mission names in lowercase (and maybe underscores) too so this aspect is clearer.

Do you mean the filenames? I guess I can bolden up the gray header to a darker color. If you mean the mission names that show in the mission list, they don't need to be lower case with underscores.

[hardrock]

Do you mean the filenames? I guess I can bolden up the gray header to a darker color. If you mean the mission names that show in the mission list, they don't need to be lower case with underscores.

Ah, sorry, I mixed up mission and filenames there

[wex-q]

How about RPG for mission standard acronym (meaning RolePlayingGame)?