Q3A-RandRote

Quake 3 Arena Random Map Rotator

Two best friends were so young at the turn of the century, and so nerdy, playing their Q3A day-and-night.

20 years later they somehow managed actual-wives-and-children lives (🎊👍) yet they are separated by a continent, but alas, they have noticed that Internet connections are so much faster now. They could probably even setup a Q3A server somehwere in the middle of the country and both get reasonable pings? Yes, they can! Some of that dot-com dark fiber really is glowing!

The fragging has picked up right where it left off. But how about randomizing that damn map rotation!?

It was supposed to be a really basic bash script... then I realized I wanted an option to have a specific map always be one of the first 3 in the rotation, which then created a bunch of logic requirements. It was at halfway through writing that logic when I realized I probably should've written this in Python, but who really gives a shit.

Instructions

1. List your favorite map names in a file called mappool
2. Set your baseq3 path in the script
3. Run this script with an arg for the number of maps you want to randomly rotate ex: randrote.sh 5
4. Run your dedicated quake3 server with +exec maplist.cfg ex: ioq3ded +exec maplist.cfg
5. Have so much fun fragging, ok? ❤️

TIP: Put this in a nightly cronjob!