>You say that you don't care about what he shares but then you complain that he didn't give you any details on his plans? Common that does not fit.

You misunderstood me there. Its not about his plans. He talked about "already working" solutions that are better than emulation. And if you refer to existing better solutions you should actually show or share them IMHO.

But lets leave it at that.
The GLS wont be down too soon anyways.

PS: oh and if anyone is asking me for some code of our flhook features, I always put them on the FLHook Developer board for the public. Its not like we sit on our features and think to be more cool than the rest of the community.
Of course I dont have always time for that and I wont put trivial changes there that only require basic c++ coding.. things like a tax command can be implemented in FLHook very easily. The more complex things such as cloaking and this mobile docking thing are available there nonetheless.

Edited by - w0dk4 on 7/31/2007 2:28:48 PM

Let things rise or fall on their own merrits.
Personally, I think all the third party software programs take up ram space and cpu time. I've seen more problems with their use than smooth running servers. They're nice additions, but still buggy.
Even Freelancer in it's unmodded/imperfect state runs pretty smooth.

stop it matt, its enough

its a fact that i dont share knowledge with ppl that try starting trouble with me... but i announced that here already and thought this would be well known by now because it was discussed on a different thread already (and to my knowledge ppl agreed that its ok)
that ppl start trouble because i dont share knowledge with them leads do a neverending circle of flames
eventhough i heavily believe that it is my own decision with who i share stuff and that the LR forum rules have to be followed im going to reply here to end this crap


the GLS bypass is currently part of the latest Crossfire mod, it is directly integrated into the gamedata and from those 100.000 ppl that downloaded i didnt hear a single complain about that the GLS or the server was not available while on other forums including LR ppl went nuts when the gls was down just for one or two days
the GLS replacement is a highly difficult and at the current point of time illegal change of network code
illegal because the original GLS server is still online and property of microsoft and the msn gaming zone network
im not going to release more details about it because IT IS illegal and because if someone does try to do it before the GLS server has been taken from the net the whole thing will fail before it even started
why do i think that it will work and that it is a better solution? well because it did work for another game aswell and because players wont even see the difference to the original


finally the dynamic universe
the CF dynamic universe is a highly complicated script which deals with FL coding anomalies and server/client differences
the script was written for the CF mod and is not compatible with other mods or vanilla FL since the CF server structure is very much different from a normal FL server
basically you would have to forget everything about what ppl did preach in the past years about clean modding because the idea behind this is to create "errors" without that FL does notice them and without that a memory leak or a crash is the result. The final result are moving fleets, random jumpholes, technical malfunctions of stations and other solar objects, system invasions, discoveries of new systems and much more. Of course everything connected with the ingame news and a php interface called CFNN


enough information? happy now?



@Rankor
if you create 5 ships for a mod and put them on a server you create more lag than the basic flhook

Edited by - SWAT_OP-R8R on 8/1/2007 1:38:03 AM

OP-R8R, You're right. Even one ship can cause lag problems and I believe this has a lot to do with how complex (or poorly made) the ships are.