[bf1942] Not ready for prime time / SHOWSTOPPERS

[Fredriksson, Andreas]

"Please wait in line, your call is being forwarded."
 
I'm not a helpdesk person, I'm a qualified developer at one of Europes
best game development studios with many years of previous experience
with systems development on Linux among other things--do you want
my resume?

Think before you flame.

We _are_ developing the Linux server further, but please, please allow
some slack in this initial phase where work is being done here at DICE.

// Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Steiger
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Sent: 3/25/2003 12:04 AM
Subject: AW: [bf1942] Not ready for prime time / SHOWSTOPPERS

I'm not one of these server hosters, I'm just a usual guy who's trying
to
have some fun with his clan.

In my opinion, BF1942 is one of the greatest (MP-)Games ever! The
problem
is, we (my clan) have only a Linux-Server to play on. When I first
looked at
the EA-site, there was a "promise" for a Linux-Server, so I thought:
"Great!
That's what we need".

Ok, I'm a total noob on Linux, but I managed it to run the
BF1942-server.
Well, it is buggy, that's why it's called beta... But since Ryan told
us,
that this will be his last release, this mailing list (and in my opinion
the
development of the Linux-server) is dead!

The last statement from DICE is 4 days old and it starts with "I checked
this with our network programmer..." I would bet, this is some poor guy
on a
call- or helpdesk who's just answering with some "standard"-mails to our
requests.

As far as it concerns me, I don't longer wait for a playable
linux-server,
since it clearly looks like EA (or DICE or whoever) is not interested to
support the one and only (and I'm saying that as a windows guy)
server-system.

regards, Martin

PS: Sorry for my english, it's not my native language... :)

-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: Christopher Kunz [mailto:chris at de-punkt.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 24. Marz 2003 23:49
An: bf1942 at icculus.org
Betreff: Re: [bf1942] Not ready for prime time / SHOWSTOPPERS


ScratchMonkey wrote:
> --On Monday, March 24, 2003 4:17 PM +1030 shagnome

> I run a single BF1942 server alongside multiple Tribes 2 servers, 3
> TeamSpeak servers, email, web, FTP, and forums. The BF1942 server is
the
> least stable and is a constant source of irritation to the non-BF1942
> users because of its instability. I tried Coop mode the other day and
> brought the box to its knees, dropping all the TeamSpeak clients for a
> minute or two before I got a shell prompt back and could kill it. Not
good.

100 per cent agreement. These are the two definite show stoppers:
Lag/Bungee/you-name-it effects and the incredible leak of the coop
server.
If I needed to priorize things, these would be the top 2 on my list to
fix before midnight (and it's 23:48 here now).

--ck

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