Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:55 am
sounds fun,
after rbwar then?
after rbwar then?
S! All!
Looking forward to flying!
S! Jakoby
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Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:12 pm
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:19 pm
Great work Sirs!
Count with JGS4 for all needed.
S!
AirS...
Count with JGS4 for all needed.
S!
AirS...
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:23 pm
Swordfish,
In your FC server now (long flight home on auto).
Server is up and resets but maybe we can schedule a daily "battle" or agree to meet a certain time to have a match. Forward logs to me and I'll be happy to score. That way pilots can show up when they can make it and others will see the activity and catch the "buzz". Fun fun game, thanks for hosting!
In your FC server now (long flight home on auto).
Server is up and resets but maybe we can schedule a daily "battle" or agree to meet a certain time to have a match. Forward logs to me and I'll be happy to score. That way pilots can show up when they can make it and others will see the activity and catch the "buzz". Fun fun game, thanks for hosting!
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:34 am
Rgr Muttley, a good proposal.
By running scheduled FC test and practice games we can hopefully attract more pilots. My RB3D server has a limited bandwidth (I have an ADSL connection to internet) and it can only host a maximum of about 12 pilots (perhaps we can squeeze it up to 14), but that is probably good enough for some test and practice games to try out the format.
At the moment I just start the server manually and let it run for about 24h before it is restarted, but if we run it on schedule I can set it up for the real match length.
The current server PC is a Win98SE machine, I will have to figure out how to set up and run the RB3D server program with security as scheduled events in Windows (a function which I have never used before). It would be nice if the mailing of the logs could also be automated, but let's do things one step at the time.
I will take a look at this and see if I can get it together. I'll post here if/when I have something ready for testing.
Best regards
Swordfish
By running scheduled FC test and practice games we can hopefully attract more pilots. My RB3D server has a limited bandwidth (I have an ADSL connection to internet) and it can only host a maximum of about 12 pilots (perhaps we can squeeze it up to 14), but that is probably good enough for some test and practice games to try out the format.
At the moment I just start the server manually and let it run for about 24h before it is restarted, but if we run it on schedule I can set it up for the real match length.
The current server PC is a Win98SE machine, I will have to figure out how to set up and run the RB3D server program with security as scheduled events in Windows (a function which I have never used before). It would be nice if the mailing of the logs could also be automated, but let's do things one step at the time.
I will take a look at this and see if I can get it together. I'll post here if/when I have something ready for testing.
Best regards
Swordfish
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:57 pm
S! Swordfish,
Although I have hosted servers in the past, I am a little green with scoring, automation and security. I do have a security piece Tiger gave me that was used in RBWL and such, but you may have that already (I recall sending you something years ago). I remember from J30 Gunter and Reinamann that they would run the match using Windows Scheduler, then of course the score file was created but I'm not sure how to auto email it - maybe that part is a big jump (otherwise I would have to access to a certain folder remotely). I have a few PC's and Servers available for use but I think the bottleneck past 14 players will be the bandwidth. I read recently that Sweden is top 3 in bandwidth speeds, it will take US 30 years to catch up lol (CPU Magazine). But I do have access to 20+ MBPS connections.
Anyway, we'll keep working on this project and maybe if we post here, someone with skills we are looking for will jump in with advice or better yet, volunteer some responsibilities.
I remember J30 offering FC everynight at a certain time and we would be there promptly since we only had limited time. Others would see the number of pilots and jump in, but they were explained the rules and usually it was too much in chat. Maybe we should just offer this during the week at a certain day and night to the RBWar gang and take it from there, just a thought.
Although I have hosted servers in the past, I am a little green with scoring, automation and security. I do have a security piece Tiger gave me that was used in RBWL and such, but you may have that already (I recall sending you something years ago). I remember from J30 Gunter and Reinamann that they would run the match using Windows Scheduler, then of course the score file was created but I'm not sure how to auto email it - maybe that part is a big jump (otherwise I would have to access to a certain folder remotely). I have a few PC's and Servers available for use but I think the bottleneck past 14 players will be the bandwidth. I read recently that Sweden is top 3 in bandwidth speeds, it will take US 30 years to catch up lol (CPU Magazine). But I do have access to 20+ MBPS connections.
Anyway, we'll keep working on this project and maybe if we post here, someone with skills we are looking for will jump in with advice or better yet, volunteer some responsibilities.
I remember J30 offering FC everynight at a certain time and we would be there promptly since we only had limited time. Others would see the number of pilots and jump in, but they were explained the rules and usually it was too much in chat. Maybe we should just offer this during the week at a certain day and night to the RBWar gang and take it from there, just a thought.
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:07 pm
The server log file needs to be fed through a log distiller program to get the scores I believe.
You can mail the logs out raw, or after you distill them.
And for FC nights, it's best to have it passworded, to save us from incidents that occurred in the past.
You can mail the logs out raw, or after you distill them.
And for FC nights, it's best to have it passworded, to save us from incidents that occurred in the past.
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:12 pm
OK, I am ready to give it a try.
You are hereby invited to a Flying Coffins Fun Day on Sunday, 23 Jan 2011 at 21:00 CET (that's 3:00 pm EST). Please see my post in the General section of this forum for more details. The server will have a password.
If this works out ok, more FC Fun Days will follow and I will try to work out the scoring setup. Thank you for your support and for providing the TS2 server, Muttley!
Best regards
S!wordfish
You are hereby invited to a Flying Coffins Fun Day on Sunday, 23 Jan 2011 at 21:00 CET (that's 3:00 pm EST). Please see my post in the General section of this forum for more details. The server will have a password.
If this works out ok, more FC Fun Days will follow and I will try to work out the scoring setup. Thank you for your support and for providing the TS2 server, Muttley!
Best regards
S!wordfish
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:49 pm
RAC Garrett will be there with guns a' blazin'....I have a 30mbps conn DL and 5-7 up and an extra P4 comp we could use for a server as well...just need to learn how to get the server recognized....all works, but nobody sees...I think it has to do with router/modem setting for firewall (which Ive tried), but someone told me I need "DMZ"....can anyone assist with that ?
Re: RBWar - Flying Coffins
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:23 pm
Great connection Pat!
From what I remember, you have to configure your router at the port forward setting, add an entry with you server's ip address and port number that you select in RB, in XP I also went to the Firewall and opened the port number.
Of course Sword has all of this documented the thorough gentleman that he is:
http://rb3d.net/Swordfish/RB3Dserver.ht ... a%20server
From what I remember, you have to configure your router at the port forward setting, add an entry with you server's ip address and port number that you select in RB, in XP I also went to the Firewall and opened the port number.
Of course Sword has all of this documented the thorough gentleman that he is:
http://rb3d.net/Swordfish/RB3Dserver.ht ... a%20server