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Recently i've played OA with friends, two strangers connected in and there was a lot of fun. But now I have questions about this and some other things.

Is it *naughty* if I start dedicated, play some time and then shut it down?

Do you recommend to play with any server-side mod or with *clean* OA? I've tested NoGhost and it's quite fine (anticamper, weapon removal and so on). May these be the reason of lags? (I didn't turn on any antilag but friends told me that the mod may cause some problems)

I think this is all fine ;)

It's up to you I'd say.
Here are a few drawbacks if using a mod :
- mods are rarely libre softwares (and, depending on mods/additions, it's weird to play OA to finally get back something which looks like Q3 and reuses most if not only Q3 assets)
- mods require players to set their autodownload on, or to install the mod themselves

Mods are not meant to fuck up OA, I think  noghost is tested/known enough to be considered safe.
Delag helps if you have high ping, personally I consider it to be an improvement.
If you have low ping and think it's hard to hit, it's harder to make a diagnostic of why you experience "lag". ;)

Edit: Noghost and both "clean" (vanilla) OA have some unlagged code, so I don't know how it's dealt with, but I doubt it conflicts. (someone may confirm)

I mean both are turned off.

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can I somehow force openarena_ded to not mess in my config? I'd like to make a conf with // sections but every time I run it, my config is messed, all variables and commands are there but no // comments are left. it's a bit annoying for me

and yes, I guess that editing values / adding/removing variables when server is running would mess the file again

My config files aren't modified by oa_ded, and I can leave comments with it.

Are you using some mod or vanilla OA ? The mod may modify your config file.
In worse case, I haven't tried, but make your config file not writable (chmod -w server.cfg).

I think using "seta" command within the game alters your config file, otherwise it stays as it is.

vanilia with serverfix patch from this forum / oa's wiki

If you're referring to q3config_server.cfg, it looks like this is where oa_ded saves everything (stuff like your server name, or when you do "seta").

Cacatoes probably means putting your desired settings in separate configs (since putting them in q3config_server.cfg will clash / get overwritten).

Use a launcher which will copy your config each time you launch the game (or your server) into the appropriate place, thus it won't modify your original config.

More information: OpenArena Launcher =>
http://superbots.co.cc/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=5 (http://superbots.co.cc/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=5)

damocles, did you mean
? I think it would be better for me than the launcher

I think the file was changed even when no changes are made from game. I'll try it when back home

anyway thanks for all solutions

I only tried it with the files located in ~/.openarena/baseoa, but maybe you have them where you installed OA instead?