Well since I'm on here because the server that I have been playing on for the past month decided to add a password and now I can't connect.....

I think some sort of ranking, review list would be a great idea.

BTW... Galactica is the server I was playing on. Wasn't too laggy, sometimes crashed but was always back up. Too bad the sysOP decided to go private...


forget the hull breach, what about the FIRE?[!?[!?

I think that's a great idea. Maybe this site could do something like that, especially since it's updated daily. Maybe each server review could list things along the lines of:

1)PK policies and adherance to server rules
2)Admin involvement
3)Prominent clans in the given server
4)General status of the server (is it 24/7..if so, when does it reset, or does it crash regularly)


I use a few servers:

Browclops: fast, reliable, hard to get in though. Odd lag spikes. Admin is firm on banning cheaters. Lots of independant pirating and PKs against lvl 20+ characters

Credere Freelancer 24/7: Small server, almost always up and fast. Good play policies, very little player or PK traffic

Alpha Centauri 2 24/7: Hard to join, lag caused by cheaters evident. Very little admin involvement. Large clan and pirate presence.

microsoft Freelancer 24/7: great server, good admin involvement. Zero tolerance for cheats. Never full. Fast, almost no lag.


That'll give it a start.

"True friends stab you in the front"

Sounds like a great idea to me... thought about doing something myself in PHP/MySQL but it needs to be somewhere with high enough visibility to be useful.

A simple list by name, server settings, prominent clans, policies, rating based on performance of the server etc would be useful but you could take it one step further and add some more interactive features such as user comments/ratings, allow admins to update their own server settings (password, max players etc) and that kind of thing to give the role maintenance of the resource back to the community and reduce the level of management required.


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