V3: Gamespy Option Useful?

[DOCa Cola]

posted on June 1st, 2006, 8:20 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on June 1st, 2006, 10:20 pm, edited 4 times in total.

i am currently working on an update for the fleet operations launcher making it a bit better and more slick to use.

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[ColdDarkParanoia]

posted on June 1st, 2006, 8:40 pm

Last edited by ColdDarkParanoia on June 1st, 2006, 8:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 1:35 am

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

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 12:56 pm

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

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

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 1:16 pm

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

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 1:19 pm

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

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 1:38 pm

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 wink.gif
Do it...

@Black...shame on you...manual IP...tdzdzdzd wink.gif cloak.gif

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

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

Though I agree, the feature should be kept anyway

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 1:50 pm

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.

posted on June 2nd, 2006, 11:52 pm

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.

posted on June 3rd, 2006, 12:26 am

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

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

posted on June 3rd, 2006, 1:22 am

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

posted on June 4th, 2006, 9:22 pm

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

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

posted on June 4th, 2006, 9:41 pm

QUOTE (DOCa Cola @ Jun 3 2006, 12:26 AM)
hehe, the same with those ppl from maddoc. the last time they answered was when beta 1.0 was released

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

To leave them alone lol

posted on June 4th, 2006, 9:42 pm

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

posted on June 5th, 2006, 3:14 am

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