This controls whether or not you want to use the map rotation which you've specified in your action.ini file. 0 ignores this and attempts to use the standard Quake2 rotation, which, let's face it, is a pile of tosh. If you want a decent map rotation system, use the one provided by Action.

Maps will change whenever a player reaches the specified fraglimit or the timelimit has been hit.

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Setting this to 1 gives each player one of each special item - i.e. one lasersight, one bandolier, one Kevlar vest, one pair of stealth slippers etc. Makes the game a bit mad, but great fun for the odd laugh.

After changing this setting, each player will get a full complement of items when they next respawn.

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Now this makes for a very interesting game - setting this to 1 gives each player one of every weapon. This makes is quite explosive, as you can imagine!

After changing this, each player will receive a mini arsenal every time they spawn. Yikes!

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Determines whether or not players with a bandolier can use the irvision command. some people think irvision is sort of cheating, so you can set this to 0 to disable the irvision facility. But that's no fun!

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Number of unique items that the player can carry around with them - e.g. bandolier, Kevlar vest, silencer etc.

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Length of time the 'Message of the Day' (MOTD) stays on the screen when you first connect to a map. It's not a good idea to have this on too long, as the player won't be able to see a flippin' thing if the MOTD is too long!

For reasons best known to the A-Team, this value is rounded to the nearest 2 seconds. You can only guess why...

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Set this to 1 to disable the standard status display (heath, ammo, special weapon icons etc.) The A-Team suggest this for recording of demos, other than this there's no other real benefit to be gained.

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Setting this to 1 disables the Message of the Day that players get when they first connect to the map. Well, almost, it still displays the top two lines - the copyright and URL of the developers.

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Set this to 1 if you want teamplay, 0 if you want DM.

Requires a map restart before the change takes effect.

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The number of 'special' weapons any player can carry at once. Normally this will be 1, unless you want to be silly. The bandolier will always allow a player to carry one more weapon than this value.

Requires a map restart before the change takes effect.

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Sets the number of bulletholes that the server will remember for the complete level. Setting this to a number other than zero means that when your bullets hit the walls, ceiling etc. in a map, they leave marks.

When this is set to a smallish value, if you hang around for a while in the one place you can watch your bulletholes 'heal' themselves!

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Enables or disables breakable glass - assuming that the map you're playing supports it. Currently, there are two examples - office3 and coverme.

Setting to 0 will disable breakable glass, or 1 to enable.

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Specifies how many fragments of glass that the server remembers. Even on a LAN, large values can impair the speed of the game, so modify this accordingly.

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Determines the number of knives that can left lying around in the level. A high number will make a lot of or work for someone connected over the Internet, but on a LAN it doesn't matter normally, so you can set this to whatever value you wish.

The prospect of hundreds of knives littering the ground in a map makes me shake with excitement!

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Setting this to 0 enables the dropping of spent shells or cartridges from your weapon. Every time you fire your weapon, the shells will fly out and bounce across the ground, with a nice little tinkling sound.

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Like bulletholes, except this one specifies how many pools of blood/lumps of guts are allowed on the map at one time. Yeeeuuchh!

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Restricts the ability of players to 'chasecam' when they die in a team game. This prevents cheats from using the chasecam in conjunction with other communication devices (Roger Wilco, telephone or shouting!) to help their surviving team members win.

0: Allow all chasecamming - through eyes view, chase view and free-floating.

1: Only allows through eyes view and chase view for surviving team mates, not for the enemy.

2: Only allows through eyes view of surviving team mates.

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If friendly fire is enabled, this specifies the number of teammates a player can kill before he is kicked from the server. Wounding a teammate counts as a quarter of a kill for this purpose.

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Set this to 1 to disable the recording of individual scores for players (i.e. your frag or kill count). Once this is set, only team scores and total kills for the team are recorded. Can be useful to hide how embarrassingly poor you're playing!

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Set this to the number of games a team must win before the server changes to the next map in the rotation.

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Specifies the time (in minutes) that elapses before the current round ends. This is the teamplay equivalent of the standard timelimit setting.

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Sets how many grenades a player will get by default when they choose the bandolier in teamplay mode.

The value you choose here is purely personal preference, but I'd recommend 1 for a serious game. Having said that, setting it to 20 makes for an interesting experience to say the least!

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How many rounds a player is banned after being kicked for massacring his teammates.

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How many rounds a player is banned after being kicked for merely wounding his teammates.

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Defines some basic Quake2 settings - see Appendix B for more info.

Number of kills that the winning player makes in deathmatch mode before the map changes to the next one in the rotation. Set this to 0 to disable the fraglimit.

Name of the server. Something along the lines of "Action DM" seems sensible, indicated a Deathmatch server.

You should name your server appropriately if there is likely to be more than one server on your LAN - e.g. use DM for Deathmatch and TP for teamplay.

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Advanced users only!

Determines which TCPIP port the server will use. Normally you shouldn't need to change this, as the default port of 27910 will be used.

If you're getting a bit advanced though, you may need to change this to avoid clashes with something else on your LAN. It can also be used to run multiple servers on a single PC - for example, teamplay and deathmatch servers on the same PC would require distinct port numbers.

To set this, you have to use '+set port value' on the command line that you use to run your server. For example, if you wish to run a server on a different port to the default, you'd add:

+set port 27920

To your command line.

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Determines the number of minutes that will pass in a deathmatch before a new map is started. Of course, if the fraglimit is reached first, this setting won't have any effect.

Setting this to 0 disables the timelimit on a level.

In standard Quake2 this enables weaponstay - i.e. once someone picks up a rocket launcher or whatever, someone else can come along after them and pick up the same weapon.

In Action, the weaponstay that this implements is rather odd - once you pick up a special weapon (like the shotgun or M5) you can't drop it! I'm sure this has its uses, but the only thing I can think of is to prevent players in a team game from picking up dropped weapons.

This disables falling damage - so you can fall as far as you like from tall buildings in Urban2, or jump from the tallest ledge in Cliff2, without fear of death or injury. Might even make the old classic 'Cliff' playable!

Turns off friendly fire. If you don't have this setting, then your teammates are quite capable of killing you in teamplay mode. Not that they'd dare...

'Spawn furthest'. The theory here is that after you die you'll spawn as far away as possible from all other players. Which normally isn't very far at all...

Forces players to respawn immediately after the die, rather than giving them a little breather before they press the fire button to rejoin the game. I have no idea why you'd want to do this.