1st time..be gentle...

[-BZ- Wardog 0]

Well inspite of advice to NOT play MP until I mastered SP...I ventured into basci MP play last nite after getting game installed and fully patched....For simplicity is used Gamespy Arcade...I seemed to find sessions easily enough and even joined the pre-game shell(I call it)..got entrered in to game and "Waitied for server"...but Just as game went to launch..everytime I got dropped before entering.....Now..I only patched up to 1.46...and I did see many other players who were in shell with me..they got dumped too....

I do have a linksys router on a lan set-up, but it is configured as a DMZ host so I didn't open any ports(and I didn't open any ports for gamespy arcade either)..So...is this "dumping" thinkg a fluke?..common on 1.46..or possibly related to my router set-up?

Report....

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">got entrered in to game and "Waitied for server"...but Just as game went to launch..everytime I got dropped before entering...<span id='postcolor'>

What kind of modem you have?Also, some times if it takes forever, people will get impatient, and will just start the game with out you, then thats how you get dropped.

[joltan 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (-BZ- Wardog @ May 18 2002,16:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Just as game went to launch..everytime I got dropped before entering.....Now..I only patched up to 1.46...and I did see many other players who were in shell with me..they got dumped too....<span id='postcolor'>

This sound like the mission the server had loaded used an inofficial addon, that you (and the other players) didn't have. Like an island or just Gunslinger's editor upgrade (that's an addon that gives you some extra options in the mission editor - many mission designers use it). If the mission uses an addon you don't have, you will get thrown out upon start.

Edit: For addons look at OFP.Info, they also have the the editor upgrade

[-BZ- Wardog 0]

For whatever reason, It appaear the problems resolved overnite..today I mangaed just fine most games online..

By the way..I heatrily recommend the Build and Conquer Map Mod I jumped into.

I had seen about this on numerous board posts, this Mod/Map gives a "quasi-RTS" component to OFP..as a Hardcore Battlezone 2 Veteran, I love the idea of resource management, coupled with down on the fronline actions..

Although I was just a fot soldier through most of the game, I heard the Co- and another player devising strategies to maximize weapon "purchases" as resources were aquired...

I'd like to see a full fledge developer sanctioned enhancement of this styple of game.

[jawk2 1]

i suggest u to DL the pack included in WKK clan, they did some addon package that included mostly near 80% of the player addon:

get it here Wkk site

[balkan 0]

wardog could you please send me that map over icq to me ?

icq: 71561502

And if you don't have icq you could try my Hotmail adress if the map isnt too large since my hotmail isnt that large and half full of spam mail so i dont know if he woudl receive it if the mission is too large.

But if you dont have icq try it anyway at:

Balkan32@hotmail.com

I really wanted to play a map like that over the internet, i do have dune 2 conversion mission but thats only single player.

[-BZ- Wardog 0]

Balkan, Remember..I'm the newbie here...I didn''t have the map...apparently OFP has the ability when players join, that each of the joiners can dl (from the host?) enough components so the Mod/Map runs normally even though I never specifically installed it..(Vets you can help me out on this) But it seems as long as host has the map, you can play..I found it a good blend of action, but My Co's kinda were "feeling there way" on the use of resources and RTS side of gameplay...seemed they went for position on the map, but the time they blaced "base camp"..opponents had jump in build tree and made M1A1's enough to waste wour base, before we had anti tank weapons to stop the on-slaught..my attem,pts to place land mines was too little/too late.

[Placebo 29]

If the map requires addons then every person who wants to play needs to have downloaded the addons themselves before hand, yes the map gets sent out by the server but not the addons

[joltan 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (-BZ- Wardog @ May 19 2002,22:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">apparently OFP has the ability when players join, that each of the joiners can dl (from the host?) enough components so the Mod/Map runs normally even though I never specifically installed it.<span id='postcolor'>

Only the mission is downloaded. No addons. Addons have to be installed by the players in advance.

[-BZ- Wardog 0]

OK OFP Pros...So...when I then NEED to dl and install the addon..so when I dl the addon from the authors website, I assume I just dl it to desktop, then winzip it into my OFP folder?..Or is it more complicated..and then..in the future, when BIS updates with a NEW patch..will I then need to RE-install the addons?

Thanks in advance.

[Placebo 29]

If the addon maker has done his/her job properly there will be a readme file telling you exactly what needs to be done and where the files go, most addons that I've ever come across simply get unzipped into the addons directory

[Placebo 29]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (-BZ- Wardog @ May 19 2002,22:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">in the future, when BIS updates with a NEW patch..will I then need to RE-install the addons?<span id='postcolor'>

That one is impossible to predict, most likely the addon can stay where it was and will work just fine with the updated Opf code, however there's always a chance Bis may take something out or add something which makes the specific addon no longer work correctly, just a case of wait and see really

[balkan 0]

Wardog , since you were able to play it and you havent downloaded any mods you didnt need them, or you would have been booted out when the host started that map.

The map you are talking about now has to be in your MPmission folder, since you downloaded it from the host once you joined the server and played that map. So can you look it up for me and send it to me , pretty please ?

[-BZ- Wardog 0]

Actually Balkan, as others pointed out, I probably had PART of the Mod downloaded to my comp when I entered that game, but not the WHOLE thing...Others pointed out, that I wouldn't be kicked, just I wouldn't have been able to "see" assets I didn't have installed.

If you look below this thread a couple threads, there is a Thread specifically about the Build and Conquer Maps/Mods..there are links to the creators(Karrilon) website..be sure you use some of the links losted later in that thread, because he notes updating his maps from the earliest post to the last...and as pointed out, Download and unzip them into your MP Missions folder....I hope this helps..remeber I'm new at this game(But NOT new at online gaming)

[balkan 0]

ah yes i see the thread with RTS 2 , thanks for the help

[KaRRiLLioN 0]

And I was just about to point that thread out. =)

Glad you like the mission!

There are 4 different RTS missions floating around out there.

RTS_CH Build and Conquer (cap and hold with rts)

RTS_CH Land War (cap and hold with rts)

RTS_TW_Everon War (really big territory war)

And my latest beta build of

RTS2_Build And Conquer-Everon (pure RTS no territory control)

None of them require any addons whatsoever. Unfortunately I've been a baaaad boy and not put in readme's with most of those, but when I next update them, I will. =)