servers should just run maprotation instead of forcing a specific map

[bmorel]

Servers apply rotation based on the file indicated by variable g_initialMapRotation, but only after the 1st game ended.

The 1st game receive a special treatment: it requires config/server.cfg to end with a map foobar, and thus can not receive the rotation custom configuration without duplicating them in config/map/default.cfg.

I would suggest to instead just run the 1st entry of g_initialMapRotation.

[slipher]

Yes, it's an awkward situation that you are forced to start with a specific map.

What do you mean by the "rotation custom configuration"?

I would suggest to instead just run the 1st entry of g_initialMapRotation.

As a workaround, you could emulate this by adding nextmap right after the initial map command.

[ghost]

What do you mean by the "rotation custom configuration"?

I mean the per-map configuration which is inside the maprotation file, i.e.:

if ( numPlayers < 24 ) openfield {
  bla
}

bla can be various things (I'm not sure which ones exactly, but this at least includes bot fill, even if config/map/foo.cfg might be a better place).

[slipher]

Well commands in the maprotation is kinda broken anyway, since it won't work if the map is chose by a nextmap vote, for example. Better to use the map configs if possible

[ghost]

One thing they allow is to easily share bulk of the config between multiple servers, unlike the config/maps folder, since that one will also contain the pseudo MotD of the server (the cp 20 hello world command) that one will typically want to be rather distinctive.