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So we have it, and it cost peanuts thanks to a great offer with Rackage atm, but unfortunately I’m not going to be around for much this evening for it’s official launch. You guys can instead work away without me, if you feel like it, although the admin access will be a little restricted tonight as I’ve not had a lot of time yet to set it up.
The settings have been applied though, as discussed in the other thread, but from what I can tell the map rotation is Conquest only atm. I’ve not had time to look into this too much, so please someone let me know if there are rush maps on there, and if not, if someone could look up how to add them into the maplist.txt file, post instructions here to save me some time tomorrow.
Server details:
Name – =XDC= Mixed HC Vietnam
IP – 193.93.45.46:19627
26 playersYou can find the server easily via the server browser by typing =XDC=, but if you have problems, turn filters off, and be aware the search is case sensitive, so use caps for the “XDC”.
If anyone does feel like doing some work for me, I also need to figure out how to apply one or two automatic text messages in game, like “welcome to xdc”, “visit our forums http://www.xdcuk.com” etc. I don’t see a file this goes in by default, and will need to know the commands to use in order to create one. I want one message to flash up on screen on joining, and another couple to repeat via the text chat box in game.
Oh and one final thing, let me know if anyone gets kicked for ping. I don’t see any option for this, so assume it’s off, but if it’s on tell me and I’ll look into it. One of the reasons for getting this, is to allow John and Jim less frustrating access to a server this side of the Atlantic.
Good work fella.
How much is it exactly and how long is it booked for? I and no doubt others would contribute.
Server messages along the lines of “Matt is looking for small boys – contact me on the forums” are not welcome by the way.
It was only £13 for the month, and that’s fine for me to cover myself. If we can make good use of it over the month, we’ll see about keeping it on and contributions etc at that stage. Hopefully the cheap offer will still be on then as well.
Theres a piece of software i used last time that did it all for me, I can’t remember the name but it was free and a really shithot piece of software…
I’ll find out hte name of it and get back to you..
Its called procon, found here :-
http://phogue.net/procon-frostbite/
has a handy iphone version as well lol…
Would some arty type be able to knock up a welcome banner for the server, to display on the loading screen?
The Dimensions should be:
•Dimension: 512×64
•Format: jpg, png or gif
•File Size: Under 127KB
•URL Length: Less than 64 charactersI think I have some the XDC logo’s somewhere on my PC, so if anyone needs them for this pm me with your email address.
Should be able to manage that. If you send me the graphic, and any text you want to alphadynamic@yahoo.co.uk
Took some digging, but managed to find a source, which I’ve posted in a seperate thread, so I can find them again later.
Good games over the weekend guys, I’d been slacking a bit the past week, and it was good to get back into it again with some quality games the last few days. We made a couple of attempts to fill the server and managed it once on Saturday afternoon, however the other attempts were made far too late in the day to have any success. On Saturday the server stayed full until 5 or 6pm, when it started losing players, most likely due to it being dinner time, then with people going out, we decided against trying to seed it again later. I must’ve played through the rotation 3 or 4 times while it was full, with a good number of us coming and going during that time, and we did ourselves proud with an impressive win percentage over those rounds.
I’ve run into a slight problem with the server admin, in that any time I connect with BC2Guardian, the program seems to override the settings I’ve applied to the server’s default config file. I’ll try and get some advice on this from Gonzo, and see if there’s anyway around it, but in the meantime, we should use the rackage control panel for admin. To get access to this, post your interest below, and I’ll set you up with a username and password (although if you already have an account with rackage, let me know your username and I’ll give it permissions).
For tonight, I’m hoping to be available shortly as the next 2 or 3 hours are the best for seeding the server. If anyone’s free to help, jump on ts etc as soon as you can. We’ll start trying once there are 3 or 4 of us available. It’ll be much the same story the rest of the week, with the exception of tomorrow night when I’ll be watching football until 10ish, but feel free to work away without me.
Really didn’t take much time this evening to fill this up as soon as we had 4 people on. By the end of the first map we were about half full and it’s stayed that way since. Some really good games as well so far.
Yea it crashed right after I typed that, but still at least tonight showed when we need to be on in order to fill it. Hopefully it’ll be fine tomorrow, we can fill it before the match, then come back afterwards.
@=XDC=Erratic-Space wrote:
What’s this match thing?
Liverpool playing tonight.
Text on banner – include the site address, and =XDC= obviously, but after that if you need something to go, we could always use the old “wasting time since 99/1999” slogan we used to have about a few places. Whatever you feel looks best really, the point is just to give the loading screen a bit more gloss. Alternative text maybe something rules related, like play fair, no attacking uncaps etc, but it’s not really needed as it comes up in game anyway.
For some reason, (maybe my low post count) or flikr problem, I cant post the banner, here’s the link though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78974884@N00/5413010834/
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