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Honestly, I have only 2 servers to deal with for my clan. A
Dual P4 2.8G, 4G, and<br>
a Single P4 3.2G. They run about 11 Virtual Servers. I am not a gaming
reseller.<br><br>
When I looked at the requirement for a beta set of .NET code, running a
beta of a<br>
windows based beta rcon utility, I thought clearly a nice try to make a
windows piece of<br>
code in to Linux. <br><br>
I am not going to get in to that war about WIN vs Linux. But with all
the<br>
things I need to keep up with on various servers, updates, PB,
patches,<br>
League Rules, PAM, Mods, the last thing I want to do is run
slow<br>
windows API's on top of Linux. I also don't have to worry much
about<br>
viruses as much. <br><br>
Maybe it was out of laziness, but it is out of laziness that I don't
want<br>
to spend all the time to make that sandwich of code work.<br><br>
Heck, BF1942 had several nice RCON applications. As a matter of<br>
fact, the lack of a decent Rcon facility such BF1942 is yet another<br>
thing that is hurting BF2 in addition to EA's policies (like it needs
more!)<br><br>
{TRv} had a captains meeting Friday night, and decided to drop BF2<br>
support from the clan completely, but keep an unranked server... for
now.<br>
The main reason was lack of gaming competition, which somewhat<br>
surprised me when they mentioned this as a main reason.<br>
They pointed out that the reality is everyone is so busy trying to gain
rank,<br>
they have little to no time to get in to a ladder or league
competition.<br>
Every clan is recruiting and trying to get BF2 players and few are
succeeding<br>
largely based on the above reasoning.<br><br>
But most realize after I published the time required to reach above Lance
Corp.<br>
they will play until they reach LC, and then switch when the next best
thing<br>
comes out... That is pretty sad comparing it to the longevity of
BF1942 and<br>
BFDC.<br><br>
<br>
Here is my current observation and assessment, or IMHO is you
will:<br><br>
By the time someone invents a simpler Rcon "Mouse Trap" COD 2
will be out,<br>
or Day of Defeat:Source, or H/L: Aftermath. Holiday 2005 and 2Q
2006 are<br>
packed with new shooters and add on's coming out. I think to some
extent<br>
we are a bit spoiled. We kind of seem child-like in a way.
Who can blame us?<br>
You play with the nice cool toy at the holiday, until brother Billy opens
something<br>
more awesome, and away you went to play together with Billy's more
awesome<br>
toy. The developers know BF2 already pushed the video card
envelope...<br><br>
Also, could BF2 die? Well how many awaited Brothers in Arms?
I know I did!<br>
It looked awesome. That trailer/demo of interactivity before it came
out. Only for<br>
it's format to kill the game. Yea, this was limited on-line
ability... I don't think they<br>
will make that mistake again. But I suspect my assessment on
us "boys<br>
will be boys with the very latest toys" will continue to do it's
work as it has for<br>
decades. It is built in to our very human existence.<br><br>
Mark<br><br>
At 03:36 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Thats because of the stupidity to
use .NET framework on the serverside...<br>
They would probably have less problems if they used C or C++.<br><br>
And from my understanding, the choice of .NET was due to pure
laziness<br>
from the BF2CC coders.<br><br>
/Bjorn<br><br>
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tim Cooper wrote:<br><br>
> Or their running linux and mono eats up 70% cpu :P<br>
><br>
> "Don't dip in the mustard if you can't ketchup"<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Jon Wolberg
[<a href="mailto:jon@defenderhosting.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:jon@defenderhosting.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:52 PM<br>
> To: bf1942@icculus.org<br>
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Has EA sanctioned use of BF2CC daemon on
ranked<br>
> servers?<br>
><br>
> Yes they have. We are using it on all of our customers'
servers here.<br>
><br>
> Most likely your provider does not want to spend the time to deploy
the<br>
> daemon as it cuts into his profits ( work time ) to do so.<br>
><br>
> Jon<br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "ScratchMonkey"
<ScratchMonkey@MatureAsskickers.net><br>
> To: <bf1942@icculus.org><br>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:37 PM<br>
> Subject: [bf1942] Has EA sanctioned use of BF2CC daemon on ranked
servers?<br>
><br>
><br>
> > Subject says it all. My team's ranked server at Branzone is
currently<br>
> > supplying the rcon interface but it would be nice to have the
daemon for<br>
> > the extra features, like independent admin logins for each team
member.<br>
> > According to my teammate who pays for the server, Brandon at
Branzone says<br>
><br>
> > EA told him the daemon isn't allowed on ranked servers, but
this is at<br>
> > odds with what I'm hearing in the BF2CC forums. Can some
insider pass this<br>
><br>
> > question on to the ranked list?<br>
> ><br>
> > The daemon is working fine on our unranked server, which so far
we've only<br>
><br>
> > seen traffic on for matches.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>
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Mark J. DeFilippis, Ph. D
EE
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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