Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

i am currently working on an update for the fleet operations launcher making it a bit better and more slick to use.
what i cut out from the new launcher is the option for selecting a defined splash screen instead a random one (i hope nobody is missing that important feature :)).
now i am thinking about the gamespy option. has everyone ever used it. i think i haven't looked into it since beta 1.0 and i don't even know if it is working anymore. the main reason for this feature was that the external gamespy client (not the one integrated into armada) could not detect fleet operations probably. so you had the option to use this setting to let the launcher tells the path to fleet operations to the gamespy client.

for everyone who hasn't a clue what i am talking about, i am referring to this option page:
(http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4004/untitled2pz.th.png) (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled2pz.png)

personally i only made rarely use of that feature cause i only once or two time i have had the gamespy client installed anyway, the integrated one does it's job for me. but whats with you?

never used it, the ingame one works fine for me :)dich it if it's wasting space ;)  

I never use it either, I usually play over manual IP :)

Gamespy Arcade is a nice tool that is very useful. The only thing is... it's pumped up with adds...I hate adds...but it makes it cost nothing for me so it's ok. Nevertheless very much ppl use it...could help finding new players for FO  ;)
Do it...

@Black...shame on you...manual IP...tdzdzdzd   ;)  :cloak:

Use lobby for V3 so that many ppl can play with each other.  

problem with this gamespy lobby mode is as far i remember that many people playing fleet operations have problems joining each other games. (atleast that is what i have heard). i can't test it much too as i have problems in general joining the gamespy network either the integrated client and the external gamespy tool..

DOCa Cola

i thought that fleet ops was an online mod first an formost? so maybe it should be kept?

The reason I dont use gamespy anymore is because always when I created a game incompatable people massed in :S So I had to kick them, or set up a password. Its far easier to just use IP lol :P

Though I agree, the feature should be kept anyway :)

yea, the mod handling with armada online games is just bad cause non-existant. there isn't even a sepearate channel, nor are the ppl from gamespy responding to such requests.

LOL DOCa! Now you feel the HARD way I did last month when I waited for your requests in ICQ!   ;P

The only problem was online that if one person had a game crash after a while all others crashed, too. But that just happened when someone played Noxter.

Generally if ppl play via ingame lobby you can't connect to different versions. Those games are marked yellow.
But via GS Arcade ppl are also able to join games with different versions ( which causes "incompatible" players Black mentioned)

As I don't use Arcade that much I dunno how to set the tool to connect with FO instead of original A2. Friends of mine do know how...I'm going to ask them.

IF Gamespy will ever request a seperate FO channel should be established instead of rooms like Cadette, Captain, Admiral...they are used not that much. Most ppl are in main Lobby. They should rename or add a room. Maybe ChessMess or someone from STGU can help you to contact GS Staff.  

hehe, the same with those ppl from maddoc. the last time they answered was when beta 1.0 was released

i dunno the GS tool is useful but to tell the truth whenever i play Fo online its almost always over IP cause its just quicker to setup plus noone with FO ever goes on GS

you have contact with mad doc? wow what did they say lol

To leave them alone :D lol

They said: If you say "please" we won't say a word to Activision... good luck..   :D  

hehe, nope. they are very friendly people. we talked about a next armada 2 patch with more features about modding. they tried to help us with solutions for our ideas that are just not possible. also with (really customized) single player missions but it seems they are afraid it's too complex and could lead to vulnarabilities with armada 2 as with those mission binaries you could basicly run every type of code in theory. but thats a long time ago and we achieved this or that feature we requested back then but not the single player missions (to the extent we wanted).

DOCa Cola

ive spoken to the mad doc team before on ICq and DOca is right they are pretty **** friendly they actually bother to speak to you

**** i cant remember where i got the guys user number from **** i feel drunk at the moment lol hahaha

but on a side note thank god the team is posting again at least we have hope now

Well I have to say I think you should keep the gamespy linkage, I play through gamespy each and every day.  And there is a group of Fleet Ops people who have been playing in the lobby lately.  I play A2 each and every day guys, have for almost 5 years now, I do take some time off every now and then but thats normally not my idea.  I think the idea here is making the mod available too the greatest amount of people on the most playable and useable forums.  Hey its all good using direct ip connection, but where is the advertisement, getting the mod out there in front of people and getting them interested has too be part of the plan..............YES I know, omg is that really Bear lol. yeah more or less looks great so far guys glad to see you still at it..

DITO!

gamespy compatibility is now fixed. i will distribute a fake armada2.exe that captures all parameters from gamespy when launched and forwards it to fleetops.exe. worked quite well for me today without changing or patching anything on gamespy config itself :)

DOCa Cola

He He cool give it to us B)  

Here. just copy it to your fleet operations root dir

<Attachment removed as this file is included in patch 1 for v3pr>

Too early...

Normally when members from my clan play fleet ops they have been forced to go direct from the disc to join gamepsy.  I havent tried the patch to see if this has been fixed.  I must say that I am in hopes that this does work.  Even if people join and they dont have the mod, they can get the idea and maybe they will show interest and give it a go.  And most of the time we place FLEET OPS in the room name, that does seem to assist most but lol, there are always a few.

hmm not big ah experience with gamespy so far;

I have another question for "nerds" here :->

What kind of ports does the ingame Gamespy use; I ask this because with turned on ZoneAlarm Firewall i can't join a game properly :( And this sucks so any suggestions or similar ...ah... happenings

Check your FleetOps directory and click the "Nethelp" file. Scroll on buttom. there you'll find all port information.

lol


Doesn't it just warm your soul that we're known for something?  :lol:  

well yes of course it does, the problem is that all the year in "technical"(school for computer related stuff) school i ignored allmost every lesson regarding internet, Firewalls and LAN's and so on;

Oh and this smiley here: :-> should be read as a sarcastic/cynical smile; so don't take the comment to serious and don't be ****** of to much! Thanks for all the help i check it out this afternoon

Mabye you should post your smiley definitions on your signature.  :D

the gamespy feature is 100% fixed in the current dev version

DOCa Cola

Greetings and well met; i found the solution for the network problem: it's the fu ah lovely firewall i have add an IP-Address manually to the so called "trusted zone" otherwise i can't be pinged and stuff (!sic)

So has gamespy a fix IP adress or does it use an IP-range or the IP adress of the host?

Oh and thanks for your replies; you are all so wunderbar :->

how about you set ur Router if u have one to DMZ that basically kills all problems or if ur gonna play FO just switch off ur firewall

as i have never had a problem with FO on Gamespy

Me neither and right now I dont even have a firewall :-S

hmm i think i can't configure my router (my ISP don't allow it !sic) anyway i think i'm going to buy a better firewall that allows me to configure ports (can't do this right now) any suggestions ?

Well I had Kerio firewall b4, it is free but its very good imo. Served me well at least :)

Get it at: www.kerio.com :P

i've been ok simply with windows firewall that comes with SP2 of Media center.

aye! i just have that tbh

ad XP firewall : yep if you have Windows XP then it is ok and sufficient

i did some research today and well i think i solved ALMOST ALL my problems!
I don't start talking about the usefullness of Personal-firewalls now (there is none!)

ah here some links:
Tool to deactivate critical windows-services +their ports (http://www.dingens.org/index.html.en)

general help for Windows Services and their ports (http://www.ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html)

see you on the battlefield

I have bad experiences with gamespy. The tool has adds, popped up sites for me which in turn did harm again and even when uninstalling I kept having popups from random sites until seriously scanning, tracking and destroying any type of malware I seemed infected with.

No, I never used gamespy, the ingame feature works fine.