SYNDICATE MP server
 

Hi all.

Our server is now up. This is a full realism (minus 2 handed controls) server that is set to host 128 players.

The server consists of a 12 core Xeon (dual 6 core CPUs) 1gbps (1 gig per second upload/download bandwidth) and 48 gigs of DDR3.

We have a public 100 person ventrilo server that everyone is free to use. You can see who's in vent by going to our homepage and clicking on our vent link will automatically connect you.

I highly suggest anyone having issues to post on our forums as we don't frequent these forums that often.

Direct connect IP: 216.52.143.43:27016
Cheers!

Edit: Special thanks goes out to doghous3 for supplying us with the current mission - Thank you

Nice... I want your network.

Sexy. Look forward to that.

But there is no dedicated s/w yet for a server, so you have to host it through the game menu.

LeadFarm might be the best to ask how to set a nice one up, as he has that 24/7 one at the moment with the English Channel map.

The realism settings you want for the server are set from the game menu options. It just carries over into the server.

Setting a server up in-game is a doddle. Just go to mulitplayer, sever, select map, and start battle.

Thanks.. It uses internap which is one of the main fiber trunk lines of the internet itself. It took about 5 seconds to download and install the game through steam :)

Hmm, I thought someone posted the -server command in the launcher settings that started the dedicated server software.. I could of sworn I saw a screen shot of the DOS screen it created..

That's interesting. I've been keeping a keen eye on the MP aspect. Would be great if you could find that link.

I've been investigating the FMB, MP aspect, which is actually quite straight forward for basic missions; such as on-going non-scoring battles.

There are some issues, such as player's spawning on top of other player's. So that would have to be overcome; which I do feel can be solvable with a little more testing.

Yes I know I've seen it. The problem right now, is that you'd have to use your same game key to run a dedicated server as you would be playing with. In my situation, I have no problem giving that up to start up a dedicated server.

So unless everyone that wants to run a dedicated server buys 2 copies of the game, it can't be done. I actually have 2 copies of the game anyways lol. One doesn't get out till the 19th though.

Looking forward to fly this sim online with you people.

Good idea to turn the 2 hands thing off. The problem with that is that even on quality equipement you always have some slight movement. So, if you have a throttle quadrant or whatever, there's always a small detection of movement that the computer detects and the sim sees it too which result in 2 hands already used for the sim.

Middle East, so that's why we don't see you flying online anymore lately. When will you be back?

~S~

Hi Shark :)

Hopefully, I get to come home in July! I've gotta nice 5 week vacation planned. Then I'll get back to flying!

Hey Bliss!! Whats up man??? long time huh...
Well im glad to know the SYNdicate still up and running at its best and with great people along with it. Dont know if u remeber me at all, afterall, as i said, long time but just thought i would congratulate u guys for this new dedicated server.:grin:

Hi Riksen!! It has been a heck of a long time :) How you been? We've been using this thing for ROF for a while now just waiting for the chance to fire it up for the new IL2 :D

///Back on topic :P///

I set the launcher options in steam to "-server" and it came up with a DOS screen. I downloaded the missions oxygenthief placed on the forums (thank you!) And it seems if we had some sort of read-me the dedicated server part would work.

type in "help" to get commands or the "?". It seems that "missLoad" is the command to fire up a mission. It also seems that all the missions that the dedicated software look for are in the Documents/1c SoftClub folder.

Attached is a screenshot of what I've gotten so far trying it with my game install on the laptop:

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9458/ddserver.jpg

As you can see, it's trying to load, but there are errors. If someone could figure out the commands or entries to put into the .config file or if **Hint Hint Luthier or someone from 1c could explain it to us** we should be golden, hopefully. Something for people to try anyways :)

were does the launcher look for a mission.
what is the default path>?

no matter where i put the .mis all im getting is "no map in mission file" :(

same here

I was getting that as well with all the stock missions that came in the mutiplayer folder. What I did was downloaded oxygenthief's missions and not only place them in the 1cSoftClub folder root but in every single folder that said anything about mission IE - mission, missions, coop, dogfight, multi etc. etc. (and in all the root folders that were empty lol)

I don't know exactly where it's pulling the .mis file from but when I hit the command "misLoad Airfield Attack.mis" that's what you can see in the previous screen shot. The mission may have been running with the object errors. I don't really know.

I had waited for a few minutes after the mission showed loading and saw no more information in the black box.

Hope this helps!

this is not an error in the map.
I get this error even if the map is not runing.
Start the launcher and do not type the missLoad.
type "sc" and you ll see its;) not the map

I set up a quick MP mission over the English Channel. I've kept it simple for now, in case there are problems and it would be easier to bug it.

I set an airfield for bombers in Ramsgate, further from the south coast in order to allow them to get a good altitude, with Manston next to it for escort/intercept.

Three airfield's on the south coast for fighters.

AA at each airfield, and a couple of locations for radar (unsure if they actually do anything on their own).

I did the same for the Blue team. Bomber airfield located at St-Omer-Arques, escort/intercept at St-Omer-Wizernes.

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I have noticed that sometimes aircraft spawn in a house.. with that they explode, but I'm not sure if there is a way to sort that or not.

All spawn's work though, I did basic testing as I could.

Feel free to use it, have it tested, and changes can be made. The mission can be expanded to include locations for the bombers, whether that's buildings or columns of tanks, boats etc.

Not too sure what's possible with scripting, could be nice to have a time on the map, and perhaps some basic scoring system or objectives.

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Seems you have some issues.. but feel free to test the mission if you like.

Bliss it works. All we need to figure out is where does the launcher look for .mis

where did you download this map from bliss>?

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=21084

I guess it's those ones.

If I can get this sorted, I sure will m8! Thank you!

Really! :D Can you explain how you did it or how you know you got it to work? What do I need to setup in the config? Perhaps you could add me to steam? "tagmaster2" is my ID

Yep!

ok, I figured it out. launcher default location is quick missins folder.

Hmm, that didn't work for me. Tried putting the mission in the quick missions folder and got an error map would not load. So then I took the same mission and put it in all the folders (lol I know) loaded the same mission and now it says "mission loaded!" at the bottom.

I don't know anymore than that though :(

Let us know the IP for direct connect when you get it going please!

It works I just dont know how to start the battle on the dedicated server. :grin:

yeah me neither :(

I think I've ran out of words to try!!!

lol

im not giving up im too close now :grin:

Oddball may have got it working :)

Hopefully he tells us how!!

Will you be required to purchase 2X to host a dedicated server at a colo as well as your copy at home?? Anyone know??

Thanks, hope you can get it running, I use your ROF server and it is well configured for full settings gaming, if you could get something similar working with this it would be great.

guys....

Any luck getting this sorted out?

eagerly awaiting direct connect details :)

Hi fellas. I think some of the guys are going to work on it tonight. It shouldn't take long to get the server up as the game is installed on the dedicated machine. We're gonna try to run the a mission kindly donated to us that includes the full BoB map.

I'll definitely let you guys know the IP when we've got the server and realism settings sorted out. (full realism minus the 2 handed controls) Hopefully we can get it going in a few hours at the latest.

Thanks

I have got a mission/map running on our server, battle has started and difficulty settings have been set aswell. Can someone see if connection is possible at: 216.52.143.43:27016 thanks

Connection possible.

Would be an idea to advertize this in the MP section of the forum, as this thread will probably drop down to another page quickly.

I'll look to start adding bomb objectives for the bomber's and give information of map reference in the mission briefings.

If spawn area's need adjusting, problems, etc, just let me know and I can make revisions.


If you used that specific one that is, lol.

Worked like a charm!

I've changed OP. Would be nice if we could load it up and see how the dedi software can handle lots of players..

The server is up and running with a basic mission.... I even had my first (inconclusive) dogfight!

Jump on and have a look. I think the MP side of things needs some work... the window box thingys don't help! You will be a confused as the rest of us soon enough....

ANyhoo, try direct connection to 216.52.143.43 port 27016

Fantastic ! http://www.norwegian-server.com/e107...ault/yahoo.gif

I just jumped in,but it was obviously night time on the server, 'cos it was pitch black lol
I think night missions might be pushing it a bit at this stage of the learning curve!

The issue is time does what it does, and the server is 24/7.. Will have to look at ways to circumvent that.

night time is fun tho :D I can keep looking at the exhausts all day...looks fanastic...so does the moon reflecting off the sea

We had this night time issue when we first ran our RoF server. At the moment the MP side of things is pretty basic and we only have one or two missions!

We will see if we can get static time set on the mission to maintain daylight for now.

When I first joined the server, it was pitch black :grin: . Couldn´t even see where the runway is :grin::grin: .

I just had my first online session, was amazing FPS were better than I was expecting.

Took off and flew over the channel but didn't keep an eye on my RPM and sure enough my engine started to cough and splutter and shake violently, reduced prop pitch and tried to continue but it was too late the damage had been done could not stop the shaking and the speed dropped RTB.

Second Attempt, got across the channel spotted some targets and closed in. Above an airfield with a spit gradually gaining altitude a few shots into the cockpit, dead pilot and a fire sprang from the engine it listed left and lazily turned into the ground (turned out to be AI, im still a bad shot ).

Next spit closed in and a few shots and the right wheel deployed slightly, came around for another attempt as it was going for a crash landing, this time no fire and it tumbled into the ground (Damn AI again). Started to look for another target and sure enough a third spit flew across my view this time I had to chase it, but closed in way too fast and crashed into it .

Fanatics experience I recorded the third but less fortunate flight, if you wish i could make a vid.

So to sum up Online is sweet, for the first time I felt giddy, it was like I was flying il2:1946 again... when i got the first kill my heart was pounding but when all i came across was damned AI I started to get annoyed. There were 5 reds online but i have no idea where they were .

I'll be off for about seven days at the end of next week. Can't wait to get online with Cliffs of Dover.
The Syndicate is a great place to star my CoD online fun.:grin::razz:

I had tons of fun on your server in ROF and looking forward to repeating that in your COD server.:mrgreen:

See you soon over Dover........in my rear view mirror.:lol:

I jizzed.

Whats the player count up to? (not possable, actually on) I've been waiting for a server that has more than 4 people on it? I'm gona check in on this tonight. Hopefully theres some pilots (not AI) to fight?

Looked like about 15-16 on a little while ago

Hmm. i am in the mapscreen on the server where i can choose side and plane. how do i start?

Thanks

Winger

AWSOME!!!!! We might make this our new home if it keeps up like this. SPREAD THE WORD>> Cant wait to get home.

-Gollum

Hi Winger,

1st thing you need to do is chose an army - Red for the Brits :) - and your side Blue :D

Then hover the mouse over an airfield (try some close to the coast) and when it brings up a plane selection, configure your loadout, scroll down to the bottom, and there should be a "create" button. That should spawn you.

The server's not going anywhere. It's just getting started! It would be nice to see how it works out with 128 humans in there though.

Edit: Don't forget, we have 100 person ventrilo server for coms. Everyone is welcome to join up and yell about all the bugs to each other :)
You can see who's in vent on our homepage.

Thanks!

Winger

Was on here last night, very enjoyable! (even if my game did crash when I tried to select a new plane after someone set my 109 on fire over Dover! ~S~ to you!)

First attempt at full realism online at least, and happy to report that this server is going to be my new home :)

Anyone work out how to drop bombs from bf109e3-b on full real? toggled arm and dropped but they dont seem to explode, cant work out what im doing wrong :(

Yep, me too.

I also posted this in Syndicate Server thread as I know you don't hang out here very much.

56 would like to try this sever but we are in UK and the server seems to run on GMT(?) so its going to be dark most of our Squad night.

Any chance of adding some Height Lights (under Searchlights) or similar to the ends of the runways?

The missions should now be daylight only 24/7, so you shouldn't have that problem. But trust me, once we get some rotations and a mission list, there's definitely be some night action as well :)

Please let us know if it goes dark!

Beautiful server, thank you! Chased a 109 yesterday over Dover, all the way down from 14 angels, until my engine gave up at sea level ... I guess that the mixture was a little lean ... Question: tracers didn't seem to show up in game for the Spit IIa, despite their addition to the belting. Bug or server choice?

Cheers,
6S.Insuber

Loadout or graphics is not a server choice, all we can select is the difficulty settings the same as the single player settings. Good to see you enjoying it :)

SYN_Bliss
It looks that you have figured out the command to disable the Anthropomorphic Control on a dedicated server.
The "difficulty AntropomorphicControl 0" does not seem to work.
I tried a few variation to no avail.
Any ideas?