Tue May 22, 2007 7:29 pm
FLSDCT - a freelancer server direct connecton tool
Hi,
I am Max Immelmann from Berlin Freelancer Server.
I’d like to introduce a tool we made to you. It’s a freelancer direct connection tool showing multiple server’s minibanners linking to their homepages and including their IPs to the freelancer.exe start command, so that those servers always are listed in your freelancer/multiplayer, no matter if the global server list is online or not. It’s got auto-update and a tiny admin-control-panel where the admins of the servers using flsdct can edit their settings like banner-url, homepage-url, server-IP, mod-download-url and so on included. If you like, to, take a look at it, 3 download links are available:
Click here
Click here
Click here
There are already several servers represented in flsdct, but I’d like to make it available to all freelancer servers and players. There will be no judging who may come in and who not. It’s for all freelancers.
I’d link to show your minibanner in that tool too, for example replacing the text in the tool’s windows center and moving that to “credits” in the readme-window, and to introduce flsdct to your forum’s community, but I don’t know where it would be best to post it. So do you agree, and if yes, can you help me with that?
Greetings, max.
P.S.: Just if you like to take a look at that, here’s the tools readme (it’s included in flsdct, anyway.):
The idea behind FLSDCT:
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The idea behind FLSDCT is quite simple. As of 2008 the global server list of freelancer will be shut down, we decided to create an alternative solution. This solution should be more powerful than the old global server list. In the old global server list you would have to write down manually any URL leading to a server's homepage. And what you could put in for additional information about your server was limited.
FLSDCT gives direct links to the homepages of all servers taking part, and if you launch freelancer by FLSDCT, you can connect to all those servers directly, no matter if global serverlist is online or not. FLSDCT shows the minibanners of all those servers and also shows if those servers require a client-side mod or if there is an optional client-side mod by an additional icon. The icon showing this can be used as a direct link to the mod-download. Another icon shows if there is RPG at that server.
FLSDCT also has an admin-control-panel included, allowing admins of all servers taking part to edit all information about their server like IP, URL, mod-url and so on by themselves. Those changes take effect on FLSDCT for everyone using it as they are saved to a web-server, where FLSDCT gets it's information from.
How to use FLSDCT:
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Download and when necessary unpack it, you can put it wherever you want, it will work. Click the FLSDCT-Icon to start it.
You can click the minibanners shown in the FLSDCT-window to get to the homepages of the servers. Each minibanner has two additional icons, showing if the server is modded or if it is a rpg (role playing game) server. If the server is modded and it's administration decided to add that, you can click the mod/optional mod-icon to download the mod you need for that server.
At the bottom of the window there is a button "Freelancer - Server Direct Connection". If you click that, FLSDCT will launch freelancer and you will be able to connect to any server included, no matter if global server list is online or not. The servers will show up at multiplayer aswell as at LAN.
If you are an admin of a server taking part, you can enter the control-panel of FLSDCT by hitting "edit" at the bottom right, selecting your server and entering your password.
How does it work?
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FLSDCT.exe is a simple executable connecting to several webspaces (if one fails another is tried), to gather information and keep it's content up-to-date, opening the FLSDCT-window, and starting freelancer.exe adding the IPs of the server to it's start-command to make them accessable when globalserverlist is down.
How to join:
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All servers that got a fixed IP or an URL (like available for example at dyndns), a homepage and a minibanner (88x31) can join.
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Contact us at http://www.freelancer-foren.de/ or email me at [email protected] telling us:
- Your Server's URL or IP
ort. (Like 89.106.68.120:2303)
- Your Servers minibanner (88x31).
- Your server's Homepage. (Like www.freelancer-foren.de)
- How to contact you. (For example icq, msn or email)
We'll include that info (except your contact-info) to FLSDCT and give you access to administrate the information about your server included to FLSDCT by yourself.
You'll have to include this banner to your homepage (just to link to the FLSDCT-download):
<a href="http://www.freelancer-foren.de/havenadmins/download/FLSDCT.rar">!["FLSDCT]("http://www.freelancer-foren.de/havenadmins/dc/FLSDCT.gif" "\"FLSDCT")
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I also recommend you to join the freelancer-admin-community at http://talonstrike.co.uk/HavenAdmin/index.php, where the development of FLSDCT started.
Have Fun!
Max Immelmann & Martin Guttmann.
I am Max Immelmann from Berlin Freelancer Server.
I’d like to introduce a tool we made to you. It’s a freelancer direct connection tool showing multiple server’s minibanners linking to their homepages and including their IPs to the freelancer.exe start command, so that those servers always are listed in your freelancer/multiplayer, no matter if the global server list is online or not. It’s got auto-update and a tiny admin-control-panel where the admins of the servers using flsdct can edit their settings like banner-url, homepage-url, server-IP, mod-download-url and so on included. If you like, to, take a look at it, 3 download links are available:
Click here
Click here
Click here
There are already several servers represented in flsdct, but I’d like to make it available to all freelancer servers and players. There will be no judging who may come in and who not. It’s for all freelancers.
I’d link to show your minibanner in that tool too, for example replacing the text in the tool’s windows center and moving that to “credits” in the readme-window, and to introduce flsdct to your forum’s community, but I don’t know where it would be best to post it. So do you agree, and if yes, can you help me with that?
Greetings, max.
P.S.: Just if you like to take a look at that, here’s the tools readme (it’s included in flsdct, anyway.):
The idea behind FLSDCT:
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
The idea behind FLSDCT is quite simple. As of 2008 the global server list of freelancer will be shut down, we decided to create an alternative solution. This solution should be more powerful than the old global server list. In the old global server list you would have to write down manually any URL leading to a server's homepage. And what you could put in for additional information about your server was limited.
FLSDCT gives direct links to the homepages of all servers taking part, and if you launch freelancer by FLSDCT, you can connect to all those servers directly, no matter if global serverlist is online or not. FLSDCT shows the minibanners of all those servers and also shows if those servers require a client-side mod or if there is an optional client-side mod by an additional icon. The icon showing this can be used as a direct link to the mod-download. Another icon shows if there is RPG at that server.
FLSDCT also has an admin-control-panel included, allowing admins of all servers taking part to edit all information about their server like IP, URL, mod-url and so on by themselves. Those changes take effect on FLSDCT for everyone using it as they are saved to a web-server, where FLSDCT gets it's information from.
How to use FLSDCT:
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Download and when necessary unpack it, you can put it wherever you want, it will work. Click the FLSDCT-Icon to start it.
You can click the minibanners shown in the FLSDCT-window to get to the homepages of the servers. Each minibanner has two additional icons, showing if the server is modded or if it is a rpg (role playing game) server. If the server is modded and it's administration decided to add that, you can click the mod/optional mod-icon to download the mod you need for that server.
At the bottom of the window there is a button "Freelancer - Server Direct Connection". If you click that, FLSDCT will launch freelancer and you will be able to connect to any server included, no matter if global server list is online or not. The servers will show up at multiplayer aswell as at LAN.
If you are an admin of a server taking part, you can enter the control-panel of FLSDCT by hitting "edit" at the bottom right, selecting your server and entering your password.
How does it work?
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
FLSDCT.exe is a simple executable connecting to several webspaces (if one fails another is tried), to gather information and keep it's content up-to-date, opening the FLSDCT-window, and starting freelancer.exe adding the IPs of the server to it's start-command to make them accessable when globalserverlist is down.
How to join:
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
All servers that got a fixed IP or an URL (like available for example at dyndns), a homepage and a minibanner (88x31) can join.
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Contact us at http://www.freelancer-foren.de/ or email me at [email protected] telling us:
- Your Server's URL or IP
ort. (Like 89.106.68.120:2303)
- Your Servers minibanner (88x31).
- Your server's Homepage. (Like www.freelancer-foren.de)
- How to contact you. (For example icq, msn or email)
We'll include that info (except your contact-info) to FLSDCT and give you access to administrate the information about your server included to FLSDCT by yourself.
You'll have to include this banner to your homepage (just to link to the FLSDCT-download):
<a href="http://www.freelancer-foren.de/havenadmins/download/FLSDCT.rar">
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I also recommend you to join the freelancer-admin-community at http://talonstrike.co.uk/HavenAdmin/index.php, where the development of FLSDCT started.
Have Fun!
Max Immelmann & Martin Guttmann.