Controlling spawn locations

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The Purple Panzer
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Controlling spawn locations

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I'm working on a new CTF map, and when players are killed and respawn, I want to make sure they respawn at or near their own bases, not randomly on the map. I have set up zones for the teams around their bases, but spawning still happens somewhat randomly. Is there something I'm missing, or is there a plugin (like airspawn) that might be used to control this?
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How are you setting up your zones? I simply do this:
zone
pos 0 0 0
size 1 1 1
team 4
end
This works for me on the purple team 100% of the time. I tried with a box and a pyramid with -sb on and it spawns me ontop and not randomly. Also I tried multiple spawn zones and it works by spawning evening(if not, randomly). Is that your problem? Maybe you need to make more smaller zones in the specific area you want.
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Now it does work - not sure what was going on. Maybe I didn't have a server restart with the zones in when I thought I did. Weird. But thanks - it made me retest from scratch.
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Putting freeCtfSpawns into the "world" definition might also help
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