In Tannenberg, you generally play on public servers. If you want to stay undisturbed, because you want to test something or you want to hold a match with specific players and custom mechanics, you will need a private server.

Don't worry. You don't have to rent a server from a third-party supplier. In Tannenberg, you can create a custom match for every game mode at any time. A custom match will still be hosted on the public servers of Tannenberg, but the administration is done by its private creator.

To create a custom match you click on "Play" in the main menu. After that, you click on "Custom" in the bottom right corner. Then you are able to configure your custom match:


Choose your desired gamemode and your desired map on the left. On the top right you have five input fields, all have to be filled with at least five characters. The match title defines the server name and helps other players to find this match. The password ensures that only specific players can join this match. You have to provide this password to all players that shall be allowed to participate in this match. You can also leave this empty, to create a custom public match where everyone can join without a password. If you set one, it must contain at least five characters. The admin password can be used by other players to gain administrative privileges on your server in addition to you. You should not provide the admin password to every player.

On the bottom right, you can adjust some game mechanics. All these settings - and even more - can also be set later during the match by using the commands explained below.

Inside a custom match there are several commands available to the administrator, that help to control the server and to apply extra configuration. The commands have to be written into the chat. They are invisible to other players. It does not matter whether you use the global chat or the team chat. You can display all available commands at any time by typing /help into the chat:



That are all available commands. Some of them are also available to every player even on public servers:



The following overview describes all server commands in more detail (alphabetical order):

As a spectator, there is no possibility to join the active match directly. You have to rejoin the match.

There are two commands that affect the player and bot count. A normal match has 64 slots. They can be filled by players. If slots remain empty, they will be filled by bots. The total bot count will grow and shrink dynamically.
With /setroomsize you can set the maximum amount of slots that can be filled by players. It is currently 1-64. Default is 64.
With /setfillbots you can set the maximum amount of slots that will be filled by bots (0-512). Default is 64. This amount can be lower than, equal to or greater than the maximum amount of player slots. So it is possible to have more than 64 "soldiers" in a match! You can have at most 64 players and additionally 448 bots. It is not recommended to use that big numbers at the moment as it will decrease your FPS to absolute zero.

Some examples:
Given: /setroomsize 64 | /setfillbots 64 | Players: 64
Result: 64 players and 0 bots.

Given: /setroomsize 64 | /setfillbots 128 | Players: 64
Result: 64 players and 64 bots.

Given: /setroomsize 64 | /setfillbots 128 | Players: 32
Result: 32 players and 96 bots.

Given: /setroomsize 20 | /setfillbots 0 | Players: 10
Result: 10 players and 0 bots.

Given: /setroomsize 64 | /setfillbots 512 | Players: 10
Result: 10 players and 502 bots. + Game Freeze ;-)

Other players can gain administrative privileges only by themselves. Therefor they have to join the custom match first like every other player. Then they need the admin password. They gain administrative privileges by typing in the command /admin in conjunction with the admin password. It is not possible to login to a server directly using the admin password.

Yes, just leave the password field empty. Your match will be listed as a public match and everyone will be able to join without being asked for a password.