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I created a map with a lot of objects and default sides but custom tur sides.

What are often reasons that custom maps crash online?

Put this line in your lua, if you haven't already.

ok I'll do that

It doesn't crash for me just when a player joined his game crashs

Yeah, that usually happens when you don't have your SoldierAnimation memory pools filled.

it crashs also with the soldier animation

maybe there's something wrong with my lua:

I can't be too sure, but I seem to recall that having a bunch of errors (even Severity: 2 ones) can eventually cause a crash. Eliminating as many of these as you possibly can may make your map more stable. Also, perhaps you can try cutting the number of objects, AI, vehicles, etc. in your map and see if that helps.

Honestly, I don't know enough about multiplayer mechanics to be able to give you a difinitive answer, but I'm learning from experience that you can solve just about any technical problem without coming to this forum as long as you spend enough time experimenting and using the process of elimination. Believe in yourself!

Good luck!

P.S. If you are starting to bash your head against the wall, you can always post your error log for us to review. Whoever looks at it, the error log is your friend.

jangoisbaddest wrote:Also, perhaps you can try cutting the number of objects, AI, vehicles, etc. in your map and see if that helps.

I'm thinking it might be too many AI. As a test, try setting it at the default (32) and see if it still crashes for whoever joins.

Maps can crash online for lots of reasons -- the best thing to do is go back through your map and eliminate every single error that you are able to.

I'll do that

but at the moment i can't test it

I'll report after testing
thank you !

wasn´t the ubermode with locals one reason for online crashs too?
Someone mentioned it in an other thread.

Rends wrote:wasn´t the ubermode with locals one reason for online crashs too?
Someone mentioned it in an other thread.

Just having uber mode enabled with locals won't cause a crash. If you hit 200 - 240 bots or so with all the units combined, that would most likely cause a problem.

A couple of things to try, if it is easy enough try removing the custom turret side. If they are on a separate layer just copy the lyr file for that layer somewhere else safe, remove the turrets or replace them with stock ones. If they are on the base layer then do the same thing but copy the wld file instead. Remeber to remove the reference to the custom turrets from the lua.
Try that and see if it is better, if not then just copy back the lyr or wld file overwriting when asked. Open ZE and make sure the turrets are back in place, save and remunge remembering to put the turret line back in the lua. If they don't show up in game then do a clean and remunge.

If that doesn't make a difference then it may be an object count thing, also do you have any water or effects in the map like smoke or fog?

Other question and BFII is wierd this way sometimes, can they play the map online if they use a brand new profile, no awards?