Topic: Baseline - an EAW testing and fun server (Read 16389 times)

Age · « **Reply #20 on:** November 23, 2010, 08:27:10 pm »

I was thinking of this as i was trying to get mine working and thought of the ESG sound loop EAW doesn't have one like OP does.

Bonk · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2010, 07:10:37 am »

Baseline will be offline for a short time. Should be back tomorrow.

Ronin · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2010, 06:18:07 pm »

Real life took over... but I will be making an effort to get set up this coming weekend. Thanks for the reminder, Tobin Dax! Now I just have to remember how to get to the download area on this site. lol

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Bonk · « **Reply #23 on:** December 01, 2010, 03:10:02 pm »

Hi Ronin! Good to see you. (http://www.dynaverse.net/downloads/)

Server is back online.

Scharwenka · « **Reply #24 on:** December 01, 2010, 10:16:33 pm »

How exactly do we log in to this server?

Bonk · « **Reply #25 on:** December 02, 2010, 02:52:46 am »

Install Starfleet Command: Empires at War on a pre-Vista windows system. Patch it to 2036. Run the directory server update. If you have a router know it very well and understand what a static lan configuration is and how to forward port ranges. Allow pings from the WAN.

Edit the EAW shortcut to skip the video (point it at Starfleet2.exe). Run it. Wait for the menu, slelect multiplayer then select Dynaverse. Wait a m inute for the login button to light up. Enter your gamespy login information. If you do not have a gamespy account, go get a free one. (They will try and suck you into paying, they hide their free service). You will get a serverlist... give ti another minute to update... select the server you want to play on, and click login. You will be prompted to select a race and character name first time you login to a server. If you ant another character, use another email.

I think that basically covers it.

Capt Jeff · « **Reply #26 on:** December 02, 2010, 05:45:36 am »

I'll have to dig out my EAW disks. My biggest dislike over OP is that there is no Hellbore/ESG interaction. Have to remember that when I play

L0vetobowl · « **Reply #27 on:** December 02, 2010, 12:46:03 pm »

Looks like it was added back.

2.0.3.3 by the KhoroMag patching team

66) ESG vs Hellbore interaction re-added.

Scharwenka · « **Reply #28 on:** December 02, 2010, 03:32:48 pm »

Alright, I've port forwarded every number I could find on this site related to the game and the Wan Ping and I still can't get any server list. Now when I run the server directory it doesn't seem to find anything. Is it supposed to? That is part of the message on the Dynaverse log in. "server directory not found", and then the wonder "you are behind a firewall or not online or the server firewall may be down."

I am running Vista, I thought this server was to help try to test that, but maybe that's why it doesn't work.

Any other thoughts? I hope I'm not soundling like a pain!

Quote from: Bonk on December 02, 2010, 02:52:46 am

Install Starfleet Command: Empires at War on a pre-Vista windows system. Patch it to 2036. Run the directory server update. If you have a router know it very well and understand what a static lan configuration is and how to forward port ranges. Allow pings from the WAN.

Edit the EAW shortcut to skip the video (point it at Starfleet2.exe). Run it. Wait for the menu, slelect multiplayer then select Dynaverse. Wait a m inute for the login button to light up. Enter your gamespy login information. If you do not have a gamespy account, go get a free one. (They will try and suck you into paying, they hide their free service). You will get a serverlist... give ti another minute to update... select the server you want to play on, and click login. You will be prompted to select a race and character name first time you login to a server. If you ant another character, use another email.

I think that basically covers it.

Bonk · « **Reply #29 on:** December 02, 2010, 04:18:25 pm »

google "directplay ports". Hit #1 - MS KB Article. SFCII uses directplay 7 interfaces.

Yes vista is iffy... sometimes takes three tries to get a serverlist.

Please do not test on vista unless you can already connect fine from an XP install at the same location. (Sorry, should have mentioned that - it would be just silly to try and diagnose both simultaneously with new users... the vista firewall is extremely complicated and cannot be disabled - even though they tell you it can.)

If you use Norton or McAfee on any platform you can pretty much forget gaming.

ASIDE: EAW has held up pretty damn well for its age. I just tried to install Battlefield 2 on vista. After 2 and half hours I gave up. The game was published in 2005 fer crying out loud... and it is completely dead already. The installer fails over and over and over... installsheild is evil.

Bonk · « **Reply #30 on:** December 03, 2010, 09:15:54 am »

Server is down again for a day or two. Going to move it to facilitate better testing. Should be back in a few days at the most.

marstone · « **Reply #31 on:** December 03, 2010, 01:55:53 pm »

That will give me a few days to dig in my basement to see if I can find my copy of EAW (they hide so well sometimes).

NuclearWessels · « **Reply #32 on:** December 21, 2010, 12:13:24 pm »

Quote from: Bonk on November 21, 2010, 06:55:05 am

Um, not sure... but I have EAW flatfile parsers of old floating around somewhere if I dig. I know I have a cleaner somewhere but not sure about edits. I doubt it would be hard to modify EDDBEDIT to handle the EAW flatfile too if it does not already. But this is running on SQL and EAW2036 was quite stable on it. (if we had a gang to load test it... to reprove it now...)

edit: checked dave's page: http://www3.telus.net/NuclearWessels/sfc/
http://www3.telus.net/NuclearWessels/sfc/downloads/EDDBEDIT.exe
http://www3.telus.net/NuclearWessels/sfc/downloads/EDDBEDITeaw.exe
There's an EAW editor... not sure if it is as fresh as the new OP editor that is floating around but I imagine it will work.

Ah cool stuff

I remember spending some time going back and forth after we got access to the serverkit, not sure if the editor got entirely retrofitted
but it should be pretty darn close.

I did dig out the code a few days ago, so will have a go at it now that the fall marking hell is over.
(Was looking for something more entertaining to do than work today ;-)

EDIT: hmmm ... seems to run ok for SP dbs, but there's a crash on exit editing the serverkit db. Seems to be a destructor freeing something that has already been freed (I hate tracking down memory issues ... of any flavour

dave

Bonk · « **Reply #33 on:** December 21, 2010, 03:15:14 pm »

Very good. The Baseline will be back in a few days running alongside The Forge on Thor. So much on the go... I want to finish making the oci compatible with eaw and get the texturing figured out on the blender import script (so close), and... and...

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #34 on:** December 21, 2010, 03:54:01 pm »

Bonk = Kim Mitchell?

Bonk · « **Reply #35 on:** December 23, 2010, 10:12:24 pm »

Nope. Wish I was that cool. Just paying homage.

Baseline should be up and running on Thor. (oci not up yet tho)

LordSaxon · « **Reply #36 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:33:13 pm »

Anyone playing this server on a somewhat regular basis? I've been on The Forge but it looks like this server has about 50 more accts. made on it.

Bonk · « **Reply #37 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:42:24 am »

Currently, there are 8 accounts on this server (EAW: Baseline) and there are 33 accounts on OP: The Forge. I suspect you may be thinking of Strayy's Tavern EAW server which is a long running server. The Tavern is quite reliable and consistent.

This EAW server is to help me establish the current "Baseline" and to facilitate "back-porting" of the oci (linked in first post of thread) from OP to EAW. The OCI is about to get a major overhaul, along with EAW.

The Postman · « **Reply #38 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:52:06 pm »

This weekend I will try to get on and create a account.

FA Frey XC · « **Reply #39 on:** May 30, 2011, 12:48:04 pm »

I'm Necro'ing this thread for a reason.

Regards,

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