Advanced server management

Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:47 pm by Pfhoenix

God bless Digital Anvil.. for the game. FLServer, sadly, leaves a lot to be desired. In my attempt to seriously run a Freelancer server, I've been confounded by a couple things, all of which would be resolved by an actually useful server management app. Some things I'm looking for include :

1) being able to look into the characters and accounts, to see stats and other things like time played, when created, last accessed (for both account/character management and cheat detection/prevention)

2) being able to display more info than what's currently listed for server statistics. I mean, why does the server admin car how many aborted missions there were, when the quick stats list doesn't show who's logged in and for how long

3) a way to tell general activity level of players, i.e. are they sitting around on a planet for hours? Are they actually traveling around? Not sure if the trolling adversely affects server load (my initial guess would be that it doesn't)

My aim is to be able to actually manage a server as a dedicated third party (not as a player running around and checking up on people). Does anybody know if someone is working on a new server app, or will I have to do some research on my own to see how hard it would be?

- Pfhoenix

Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:28 pm by Highlander944

I completely agree!!

Just started playing Freelancer and I really like the game. I believe that if there were some admin utilities for compiling stats and formating the data to a web page, it would really increase the value of playing the game.

Maybe something like AEStats for Quake3/UT/ETC...
http://www.planetquake.com/aeons/aestat ... nking.html

So.. does anyone have any more information on this topic?

Thank you,

Peter.

Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:41 pm by Stinger

Maybe something like this? Still being tested but so far feedback has been positive. Coming to the public very soon

Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:01 am by Cryogenius

In answer to Highlander944's post, FLstat generates output like AEStats does. I've not come across anything else that can do this (which is why I wrote one myself). However, it doesn't really answer Pfhoenix's question, as it isn't designed to be an admin tool.

Update: The latest version (v1.0a) is now available for download from TLR.

Cryogenius.

Edited by - Cryogenius on 11-07-2003 12:02:00

Edited by - Cryogenius on 12-07-2003 12:46:09

Tue Jul 15, 2003 10:02 pm by bRydeR

1) FLStat generates stats from the player files and outputs to HTML. I've been using it for a couple of days and so far so good.

2) FLAdmin provides a telnet server which allows you to list players, but it's mostly a management tool.

3) Not as far as I'm aware. Conventional wisdom suggest players who are generally inactive won't be putting much of a load on the server but I'd seen reports from some admin claiming otherwise.

I'm not aware than anyone is developing a new server app. Microsoft/DA patched the server fairly recently but I've seen nothing to suggest they're doing any further work on it. Development of a third-party replacement might fall foul of copyright issues and, besides, I think the game quite frankly lacks sufficient popularity or long term appeal to attract or justify the effort involved.

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>bRydeR<

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