Ace3

I am getting 2220 points. My system: Athlon TB 1200 384Mb DDR Ram Geforce 256 DDR Windows XP Pro I noticed that after installing Win Xp my score raised about 150 points. I used to get around 2100 with W2k. Also try to click on the calculate score button several times. You will get different scores each time. I guess it depends on the current system load.

As for the hostig of servers we are having the same problems here in Spain. No games hosting company is willing to support OFP. They just support the "usual" internet games, quake, hl, cs, and crap like that. Not support for OFP whatsoever. This is seriously hurting the Spanish OFP community. Recently we completed the first spanish ofp league which, despite all the server problems we had, was a total success. Now we are preparing the second edition of the league but with more problems. The owner of the only dedicated server we had for the battles (ADSL 2Mb down/512kb up, clearly not enough for 5 vs 5 games) has decided to quit, so no more ded. server for us. We are desperately looking for a server for this new edition of the league. As as I said the maches will be 5 vs 5, in a custom made CTF map. Currently there are 10 spanish squads involved in the league. Any help from the current european servers in hosting the games or any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

We desperatelly need some help scripting our mission. We are preparing a CTF mission for the 2nd Spanish OFP league and we need to implement 3 vital things for the map we don't even know they are possible to do. The 3 things are the following: 1) When somebody steals a flag, we want to set a 5 min. limit to score. If the flag carrier team does not score within that limit, the flag will be automatically restored to the post. Is this possible to script. How?? 2)We have included 1 civilian in the map. This civilian will be the game referee. He will be located in a bunker on a hill, from where he will be taking snapshots of the action, making sure everything goes ok. We want this civilian to be undestructible. Is this possible. How? 3)Each team will have an engineer in their lines. We want this engineer to be able to build trenches (sand bags, etc) and ammo. crates wherever he wants. Is this possible to script? How?? The map is almost ready. We just need those "simple" scripts in order to get going. Any help will be MUCH apreciated. Thanks so much in advance!!!

Thanks guys for the help. That feedback gave us a couple ideas that could help us. Whenever we finish the map and start the league (after the holidays) I will share the map with you. Personally I think it is one of the best CTF maps I ever played. Just wait and see... Have a merry Xmas all of you!

I would like to take this chance to wish everybody a very happy holyday season and to thank all of you for a year loaded with pure gaming fun thanks to OFP. I whish we have as much fun playing OFP in 2002. Who knows, maybe in 2002 we will finally get something similar to a SDK...

Answering your questions: -Linux Dedicated Server NEVER AND NOT IN THIS GAME. As BIS has explained many times before they chose to use DirectPlay to handle the MP games. As you may or you may not know DirectPlay is a M$ DirectX ASPI and will NEVER work under Linux. Consequently adding dedicated Linux servers would require writing a whole new net code, which I am afraid is not very feasible. As for BIS ignoring the people as you said, I totally disagree. Nowadays it is impossible to find a game with a bigger community support than OFP. We got to beta test patches, many improvements have been added listening to our feedback, and last but not least our post get answered by the developers themselves... Name a game with that kind of support to his community, just one (that has sold as many copies as OFP that is...)

I did not upgrade from any version, well version 1.00 if you would. I did a clean install of the game. Why?

Yesterday I got my copy of the OFP Gold Upgrade, after installing and playing a couple missions of the new Red Hammer campaigh I decided to host a little game for my squad members. I have hosted many many games before and always without problems. After seting up the game (not using the dedicated server options), every connected ok. We chose the mission and the different positions for the missions. When I (the server) got to the map screen is when the problems started. The players connected to the game disconnected with no reason. Apparently they got a config.bin error and got kicked to the windows desktop.Apparently the error has to do with some voice files. There were 3 playes in the game and all of them experienced the same problem. All this is new after installing the gold upgrade. I got no problems joining other internet games, just hosting them. I got a 256/128 DSL connection and I am using Win Xp. Any ideas to solve this problem?? (Edited by Ace3 at 2:05 pm on Dec. 5, 2001)