Common Errors

Common Errors — Water War | Quasar Store | Quasar Store

Walking into the arena does nothing

The player is above or below the arena. The outline sits at the height it was drawn from and reaches half the arena's height above and below — an arena drawn from a rooftop does not reach the street. Open the arena, press Select, draw it again standing on its floor, and hold Z for more height. A player who has not fully left another arena is also still counted there.

Hits do not score

Check, in this order:

OneSync is on. Without it the server never hears about a hit.
Both players are inside the same arena — both see the battle card.
The hits come from the water gun. Nothing else scores.
The target is another player. Yourself and NPCs never score.
The arena was not full when the shooter walked in — see below.

The arena is full

Once an arena holds its Maximum Players, newcomers are turned away: they still hold the water gun, but they are not in the round and their hits do not count. Raise Maximum Players in the creator, or walk out and back in once somebody leaves.

If the message reads missing_battle.notifications.arena_full, add the line to your language file, inside battle → notifications:

json

"notifications": {
    "arena_full": "This arena is full",
    "entered_arena": "You entered the water war arena!",
    ...
}

The round ended and nobody was paid

Only players with at least one point are paid, so a round where nobody scored pays nobody — even though the end screen still names whoever topped the board. A round everybody walked out of early is cancelled and pays nothing either. If players did score, see Interface and Rewards below.

A new round starts on its own

Correct behaviour. Ten seconds after the end screen, a new round begins for everybody still inside the arena. To stop playing, walk out.

The water gun disappears as soon as it is handed out

Your inventory removes weapons it did not give. On ox_inventory, add this to server.cfg and restart:

bash

setr inventory:ignoreweapons ["WEAPON_WATERGUN"]

Other inventories with a weapon anti-cheat have a similar list — add WEAPON_WATERGUN there.

Players get no water gun, or an invisible one

The watergun resource is not running. Make sure ensure watergun is in server.cfg, that the folder still has its meta/ and stream/ folders, and that it starts without errors.

Weapons were not given back

Weapons are returned only when Config.RestoreWeaponsOnExit is on, and only the standard GTA weapons that were taken. Weapons that are inventory items were never taken — they are still in the inventory. The stored list lives in that player's game until they walk out, so a player who disconnects or crashes inside an arena loses it.

The water jet points the wrong way, or does not appear

Line it up with /waterfxdebug preview and rot, then print and paste the values into Config.WaterFx — see Tuning the Water Jet. If it never appears, the particle library did not load in time on that player's game: raise Config.DefaultRequestModelTimeout.

Message	Means
`at least 4 zone points are required`	An arena was saved with fewer than four corners.
`name is required`	An arena was saved without a name.
`Player does not have permission`	Somebody without creator access tried to create, edit or delete an arena — or lost access while the window was open.
`Failed to create arena` · `Failed to update arena` · `Failed to remove arena`	The database refused the change. The oxmysql error just above says why.
`Arena not found`	A player walked into an arena that was just deleted. Harmless.
`Locale xx is missing key …, falling back to default (en)`	Your translation is incomplete. The English text is used for that key.

Common Errors

Installation and Access#

Arenas and the Creator#

Battles and Scoring#

Weapons and Effects#

Interface and Rewards#

Console Messages#