Dedicated Servers?

[Johan K]

Process a turn and quit is very simple:
dom2demo -g name_of_game

[ November 03, 2003, 15:20: Message edited by: Johan K ]

[Tourmalyn]

Does the command line way of launching a server have any way to include the map name and game settings? I tried launching it that way on a win2k machine, and the process launched successfully. Only problem was that it blocked on selecting the game name. So clients connected and sat at the 'getting game info' screen.

[Tourmalyn]

Oh, yeah... And...

"dom2demo -g name_of_game"

How do you supply the turn data?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
Oh, yeah... And...

"dom2demo -g name_of_game"
How do you supply the turn data?

The players turn files can be delivered by whatever method desired (email, file transfer, floppy disk) and then copied into the games directory. Im not completely sure how the first turns would be made to start a new game.

On the game-map choice.....
He listed it farther down in this thread. The command line switches. The only one I think you HAVE to have is one like
--mapfile eye.map
since the name of the tga is specified inside a map file.

All the others have defaults which it will use unless you give the switch saying you want it a different way. All of those settings can also be set inside a map file if you wanted to create a map for the game you are making instead of using the command-line switches.

[ November 03, 2003, 16:55: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Tourmalyn]

If there is the possibility of people really taking advantage of it, I would be very interested in helping to build a game/server managing website.

If only to be able to join large scale games when everything is said and done. The way Dom2 is at this point, it seems as though it would be hard to organize large numbers of people for playing those big games.

Anyone here have Tradewars experience?? Thats what I'm shooting for here.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
If there is the possibility of people really taking advantage of it, I would be very interested in helping to build a game/server managing website.

Anyone here have Tradewars experience?? Thats what I'm shooting for here.

I was SysAdmin on many BBS's so yes Tradewars is a fond memory for me. I have a server. Do you have any experience with html? linux? Any scripting language (I could name a couple dozen here but I really mean ANY). www.dom2.org is available for registration

[Tourmalyn]

My experience is actually C++ and VB. I have had a dose of JavaScript lately. VBScript/JavaScript don't have to much of a learning curve to them anyways. Haven't done HTML in a while, but thats what books are for.

Linux, hrmm... Thats another deal altogether. Limited on that, unix and Mac OSX.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
My experience is actually C++ and VB. I have had a dose of JavaScript lately.

Kewl. Consider snagging my basic scripts and making the EXE for download. People have asked but I havent found a free compiler I like.

[Richard]

If you guys want we can probably help out with some server space. We are running Windows2003, so I hope that isn't an issue.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Richard:
If you guys want we can probably help out with some server space. We are running Windows2003, so I hope that isn't an issue.

Thanks. Im also offering mostly server space. Im running Debian Linux. Between us we have everyone covered. I suspect we are in the same boat. We would like to help someone make this happen but not volunteering to manage yet another site

Some people are apparently web designers who have offered to make pages but so far no webmaster has offered to manage the whole package.

[ November 04, 2003, 02:47: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]