There are various missions for A3 (liberation for example) that have different mission parameters like difficulty, stamina on/off, aI spawn etc.
Now normally you are able to access these parameters in the lobby as the admin, and change them to your wishes.
But with autoinit on the server automatically starts the game and doesnt give you any time to change these settings.
the only way to edit them is to download the mission, de-pbo the mission_params file and upload it again which is a pain in the butt if you have to adjust these parameters more often. also this requires a restart which makes it even more painful.
Edit:
also because of this it would be nice to have:
(taken from wiki)
which basically means you are forced to have persitent=1.
We're really missing the ability to view/modify the server startup parameters. or at least some way for the user to enable/disable "-autoInit".
It would be nice to see this in the future!
other than that we are really happy with the server.
cheers