Map Rotation & Voting

NOTE: This guide uses the terms “level” and “map” interchangeably.

Introduction

Nazi Zombies: Portable supports Map Rotation as well as in-game Map Voting for server hosters to provide a selection of maps to clients automatically, as opposed to forcing manual map selection and map repetition.

Means of Map Changing

Map Voting

sv_enablechatplugins is required to allow for map voting on your server.

Users can use the mapvote <mapname> chat command to vote to issue a changelevel after the vote duration and grace period. Issuing this command will alert all clients in the server of a request to change levels, and how they can use mapvote_y or mapvote_n to vote on the decided level. Votes are public.

Votes last 60 seconds, and provided a vote passes, a 15 second wait is in place before the change of level. There is no limit on the amount of votes users can start, but only one can be active at a time.

Votes take priority over map rotation settings.

Map Rotation

Nazi Zombies: Portable supports three modes of Map Rotation, controlled via the sv_maprotationmode cvar:

0 : Do Not Rotate
1 : Fixed Map Rotation
2 : Random Map Rotation

Do Not Rotate

Rotation mode 0 disables map rotation, the currently loaded level will begin again.

Fixed Map Rotation

Rotation mode 1 picks linearly from a list of rotations from a plain text (.txt) file in the nzp/ directory. The basename is controlled by sv_maprotationbasename (by default it is map_rotation). The contents should only be the raw (.bsp) names for the levels you want to rotate. For example, to switch between Warehouse (Classic) and Warehouse, your rotation file would look like so:

nzp_warehouse
nzp_warehouse2

If a rotation file is not found, the Random Map Rotation (2) setting will be used instead.

Random Map Rotation

Rotation mode 2 chooses a random map from the server’s installed maps.