[bf1942] BF Viet and BFSMD

[Steve Getman]

IMHO Kevin should just start selling his excellent product and be done
with this sort of thing...  Either that or Dice should just buy it and do
away with theirs.

-- 
Steve Getman
steve at lightcubed.com


<quote who="Kingsley Foreman">
> bfv goes fourthSorry for the cross post in the forums and on the mail list
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>             As most of us know BF:V is being supported by BFCC and not
> BFSMD.
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> but what some of you might not know is that there is no linux port for
> BFCC and when unrego'd
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> it will be limited  2 admins, that's right folks BFCC is not free
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> I and many other admins have been a huge supporter of kevlar at black bag
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> also supported the decision by Dice to fund the continued development of
> BFSMD.
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> Dice choose not to continue this support for BF:V.
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> The BBO forums also have a petition going for Dice's continued support of
> BFSMD for BF:V located
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> http://www.blackbagops.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1725 which is up to
> approx 60 servers/networks.
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> Ok here are the facts.
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> BFV is a hybrid dedicated server of bf1942 1.5-1.6 in command structure.
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> this code is already written in BFSMD, and it would appear that it
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> much for Kevin to migrate it over (I apologize if I am wrong Kevin)
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> We have worked out that BFV is a diff development team to the original
> BF1942 team, at least on the Linux side of things, so who knows if the BFV
> team is up on the importance of having a good Linux cli tool to manage the
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> Im sure the admins know the importance of it, and I know that BBO has
> already written an excellent one for BF1942.
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> As a Admin I'm some what disappointed about Dice's decision here.
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> the BF1942 servers around the world are using Linux, to supply a Manager
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> Linux is crazy.
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> So Im saying that I hope Dice Change their minds and start supporting BBO
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> because we need it
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> If you agree make yourself heard
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> Kingsley
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> http://games.internode.on.net
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