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@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
I think there’s two problems 1) unless you have the expansions you cannot join and 2) we don’t appear in the server list
Good few games last night but not a single new player joined which would explain why from the points above
If there’s one thing dice royally fucked up it’s been battlelog server listings. The b2k issue kept us from putting those maps into any permanent rotation initially last year but I thought they fixed it, at least allowing people to join, up to the point a b2k map appears. They said at the time it was so people wouldn’t become frustrated by kicks, but i’m sure the motivation was to encourage more sales. Anyway I’ll take them off.
We must be showung on the server list though?
I’ll be on this tomorrow evening btw, I would have jumped on tonight but I finally got to see what all the fuss was about in planetside 2 and couldn’t let it go. Meant I had to have a late dinner and you’d finished playing by the time I was done.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
Matt, I asked for 2 weeks solid for the log in and cpanel details for the site. I’m not going to bang my head against a wall. At the time I offered I had a 2 week period of inactivity. You know what I do for a “day job” and I was stunned my offer wasn’t taken up. I actually felt there was mistrust in my ability to implement a fairly simple site.(how hard is it to pm me the user name and passwords?) But ce-la-vie!
I directed you to this at the time: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4381
I think it was then that we found that the admin panel no longer works, but I couldn’t get access to anything further to even investigate it. I’ve still no idea what the problem is, even though we did eventually get into the back end of the site (6 months to a year later), but it’s never really been a big concern since we’re going to scrap the front of the site anyway, and all you need to do is build a site on your desktop to simply overwrite the old files with. You can do this any time you want.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
As for the subject of the server being empty due to hardcore settings, I don’t know enough about the inner workings of how Battlelog ranks a server, but there are hardcore and mixed mode servers out there that are full most nights, so I think we need to look into how we can improve our server rank.
At the time we were playing before Christmas there was a real problem populating the server even with one setting changed off normal mode. Even on normal mode now it’s hard to populate the server, and we still don’t know why. The most popular servers out there these days have high ticket settings and quicker spawn timers (especially vehicles), which is the fault of DICE, but is likely to cause us a problem unless we come up with a cunning plan.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
If I’m contributing both in time and financially I think its only fair for you to explain how XDC makes its decisions. Is it between yourself and Ben? is there a vote system, a discussion etc etc.. I’m really not trying to be antagonistic but If I and others have no influence other than voicing an opinion I’d like to know.
When there’s a blue moon, and a decision is made, XDC works very simply, things get done when someone takes the initiative, and I’ve always encouraged, as well as wanted, people to do this – it’s just rare to see. There was only one time when I exercised a veto and that was when Legit was about to be voted into XDC.
If I and others have no influence other than voicing an opinion I’d like to know
Just quoting that again because I have to ask what else do you think democracy is? You’ll always have influence if your opinion has support.
Actually may have found the solution for integrating phpbb with wordpress.
http://www.visionforum.co.uk/forum2/
Install wordpress and phpbb as normal.
Make sure you are logged out of wordpress (otherwise you will get a gap at the top of your phpbb header, where the wordpress admin bar would go).
Now go to your wordpress blog page, (when you are logged out of wordpress admin) and right click, go to view source.
Copy the source from the top of the page until you see a div like page content etc (will vary on your theme), remember we just want the header.
Now paste that right at the top of your your overall_header.php in your phpbb template.
Now go to your phpbb admin, and go to styles, then templates, click refresh on your current template, so that the overall_header.php will be re-cached with the changes we have made.
You can do the footer in the same way, copy the footer html from the wordpress page that you want to use, and add it to overall_footer.php.
You can ever get the same styles by linking your css file from your blog to phpbb.
You should now be able to link to your phpbb and it will have a wordpress header.I have done this on my site here recently : http://www.visionforum.co.uk
Actually these are not strictly match settings, but I’ve set it up fairly close. Important points, FF on, 3d spotting off, kill cam off, everything else as normal. We’ll call it match settings though 🙂
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
@Alzir wrote:
Yea, it’s been on the todo list for some time with the biggest obstacle being a lack of artistic talent. I may just go ahead with a change anyway since certain areas are simply redundant.
I did offer my help a while back 😉
And if you remember I said go ahead and produce something and see
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
Ok, why don’t we make a start sooner than later? Title our server as running match settings and recruiting, get a well worded post in the Battlelog forums. Get the front page outta there because it’s 3 years out of date.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
Matt, if you delegate tasks to people it’ll make things go so much easier. I think we should also get a Facebook page, so the “real” people and potential people involved in XDC can be seen, and any news or online events can be posted quickly.
I think it was about this time last year when we built up an XDC corporation in Eve and had a long look at the website setup, and there was actually a lot of work put into some features, and an attempt was made to update the site. We ran into a couple of technical problems though.
I can’t recall exactly what it was, but while Andy did give us as much access as we could realistically get to the back end of the site, there was something we couldn’t do which was causing a massive headache. It was enough to basically knock any motivation out of us, and to be perfectly honest it’s still a struggle building up that motivation to tackle it again.
That being said, there is a possible solution, in that we simply move hosting off Andy’s server, until we can figure out what it is we can do about whatever that problem was (Stalker will know more about this). Since stalker actually does a lot of work on websites we’ve been discussing what we can do to this one over the past couple of months, in a series of emails at work. We’ve pretty much decided to focus the site on the forums, since that’s pretty much the only thing we use here. There are all sorts of features we could add to a front end, which may look good in terms of presentation, but in future these will be linked from the forums, or links around the forums. This is where I run into a problem in that I don’t know how best to do this.
I’m looking into it, and in the meantime I’ll post a new thread asking for ideas.
As for facebook, that is also something I’ve been discussing with Ben, possibly Twitter as well, but there are also a couple of problems there. The first thing is who’ll use it, as I hate facebook with a passion, and who else in the past has ever tried keeping a public page of news and events up to date. The other issue is whether facebook would then take over from the forums, or split us between them. Why talk about the same thing in two different places? It’s certainly an idea worth exploring since it’s probably another area where we’re also behind the curve. If anyone has ideas on how we could keep a facebook page interesting, feel free to put them out there.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
I like the idea of the youtube thing, and there are players like Max and Ben who can really add some value there.
This is also a work in progress. I’ve got some good footage, but keep running into a problem capturing voice input, without which the video sounds crap.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
While I’m on my yearly “controversial post”, I’d like to bring up this issue of hardcore v normal. 😈
I was really amazed that this caused so much controversy when we had the debate regarding our server, I think the main problem the “hardcore brigade” (and I include myself) had with the normal mode was FF. There is no reason or need to sub-divide XDC over this issue, but I’d personally like to know on what biases a decision like how the server is set is made? I would guess that if it was a majority rule, the server (which we all contribute financially to) would be on some kind of hardcore settings. I respect the fact that Matt, Stalker and Queeks prefer normal, but I suppose I’d like to know if we’re a democracy or a dictatorship, and that may sting a little to read, and please (Matt) understand I’m saying this with as much tact as I can in the interest of going forward and expanding XDC. If its a case of “my ball my rules” then thats fair enough, but I would like to know up front.
I’m amazed by short memories, but at the start we set it on normal after a discussion on TS. It’s always my opinion that a game should be played as it comes out of the box and we use that to gauge what we like and what we don’t, people agreed. Up until about Christmas there was some debate over hardcore settings, and we settled on having a hardcore set up for one night a week. Granted there was the odd week this wasn’t done, but that was because nobody in the hardcore camp took the initiative. I indulged in some hardcore drinking on these nights (I often misunderstand), using the night as a break from BF3, but I still noticed that the server sat empty almost every time we changed it over.
I then took a break from BF3 between Christmas and May, but kept an eye on the server and it was often on Hardcore for weeks at a time, and was empty. This annoyed me and frankly, when I saw so many of us then playing hardcore, it kept me away. To even consider there might be an element of “my balls my rules” though, is unfair. The server has been set on Hardcore for about 50% of the time it’s been up, and if it was empty during that time, then blame the admins who took control of it.
To go back to the numerous debates we had on the subject (mostly on TS, but also the forums), I think we had reached a consensus on tinkering with the settings to provide a mixed HC and normal experience (pretty much what I’ve suggested again in this thread). The reason this wasn’t done sooner, was because as soon as we touched even one custom setting, Battlelog was delisting our server from the quick match list which dramatically lowered the server’s population. We tried this several times, after each patch but always ran into the same problem. This probably still applies today, but we can’t devastate a population of zero.
After I finish up on the forums here I’ll switch the server over to match settings and we can see how this works out. If we want to fill it regularly we have our work cut out though, and that’s probably worth another thread in public.
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
As for playing on our server set to Normal, I’d still rather play on TS with my online mates in this mode and have a laugh, than play some German uber-leet hardcore server on my own, so please read the above with that in mind.
Pretty much how I feel as well, although I have my limits, but don’t worry about how I’m reading your post, it’s a good discussion to have.
If it takes you 5 minutes to load windows though, you need a to rebuild it, i.e reinstall windows and maybe even reformat. Windows 7 loads really quick on a clean system, even without a SSD
I don’t know what free “music” site’s she’s on that would affect your system, but perhaps you should lick her out a few nights a week and see if that improves the pc performance after the rebuild.
If that’s what you’re comfortable with then fair enough, but a foregrip just nerfs the gun at medium to long ranges. Also when I say close quarters, I’m not referring to the CQ pack, I mean close range on any map. I did jump on some CQ maps the other night though to unlock a few items on the M416 list, and along the way found out the gun performs pretty well, even in a mode where other guns are much better. Was still getting a 2/1 k/d with it.
Found out curse.com where offering keys to north American’s and jim signed up to get me one. Managed to get three keys from american friends so stalker, max, and me got in.
Since i’m on my phone I can’t edit easily but just to add, I have gary goat and swettyballs on my list of potential recruits atm, but feel free to put others forward, or even object. I’m also thinking about organising a month long event in october maybe goung through old games we’ve played, like we did a few years back, to celebrate xdc entering it’s teens.
Here’s a question which I probably should ask more often, but what do you guys want to see going forward, as in what do you think would add to xdc? The recruitment thing is one thing I agree with, but I have my own ideas about the future, and while I plan to work towards them, it’d be interesting to hear some other ideas.
