im having trouble when i get on i am ok until i get to the equipment dealer then i get knocked off to my desktop

BEWARE PETTY HUMAN, FOR YOU ARE CHEWY AND GOOD WITH KETCHUP!!!

leader of the dom kavosh dragons

Whats your username on 24/7 Proxima Dedicated ?

Dutch63

never mind i think i found the problem (it did this to me on other servers too)
i reinstalled freelancer see if that helps

BEWARE PETTY HUMAN, FOR YOU ARE CHEWY AND GOOD WITH KETCHUP!!!

leader of the dom kavosh dragons

hi
just wondering,,wheres the sever located.

Currently it's down under in Oz, but some changes are planned, due to bandwidth constraints. Within a fortnight maximum, it will relocate stateside with dedicated connection to several backbones, insuring a balanced ping stateside, down under and to the old countries.

More information on this will be forthcoming as plans are finalized.

Due to the bandwidth problems the server has currently been limited to 14 players, but will be back up to 24 players when the move has been done.

Consider Proxima Dedicated, in it's current location, as a "preview" of whats to come.

Dutch63

after reading the server rules , a and b make the normal sense , however c is a bit excessive , 30 minutes , this effectively means that a clan consisting of a mere 2 people can dock camp a person indefinately for hours on end

Personally I think dock camping/spawn killing / dock killing should be outlawed period. Make a rule that says any killing within a 2.5 Km radius arround a base/planet/station is not allowed, that gives people the time to get their bearings, and their stuff together. It also makes for a lot more challinging game play since now all those people hanging outside of stations for easy kills have to work for their kills.
Because lets face it , spawnkilling is only about one thing , ruining somebodies gameplay , it has nothing to do with skill.

Personally if somebody pulls the spawnkilling routine on me I either switch to a different chacracter or turn on the TV on my PC and watch the news in case a secondary character of decent strenght is not available

And yes i realize some people will abuse the rule (that unfortunately is human nature) and hang at 2.4 km shooting outward claiming they can't be shot at because they are in the 'safety zone' or hang at 2.5 km lobbing sunslayers at the station , but hey you can't please everybody




Time is too short to hate everybody , just hate a few

Dutch, I read a console message yesterday advising players that progress made on the current server would not be saved and transfered to the new server. If so, when the new server starts we all start from scratch again or do you have surprises for existing players?

BTW: Corwin, I think I speak for the regulars on TLR when I say: OK we know, we read your many posts, you don't like dock camping. I don't mean this as an insult but you can step down from your soapbox now. As for those tempted to Flame Corwin, please don't.

Thanks

Lazy Boy
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Edited by - Lazy_Boy on 16-09-2003 16:19:47

Hey, great to hear news on the server! I haven't been able to get on it a lot lately, but I plan to real soon. As to the Ping, hell yes get a 56k modem, sheesh! Your ISP also is a big factor, I dumped AOL and got Netzero and my ping went from 500 average to 300 just from that. As to dock camping, I consider a clan to be one entity myself, so I'm opposed to 'tag team' docking. Especially when the victim is an independent player NOT in a clan at war with the camp docking clan, but that's just my opinion.

"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

We are working on that. It's possible we might have to do a player wipe when the server is moved to Texas from Australia, but thats mainly bcause we are also working on the serverside mods, so the Omicron Major and Minor systems will be accessable. Not because of the server move itself.

The console message you received was due to a temporary run of the server stateside, but the server is back in Oz at the moment, so any progress made while it's on the 12.xxx.xxx.xxx IP, will hopefully progress over at the final servermove. Thats the part we are working on right now.

More info hopefully later during the week.

Dutch63

Well its been running out of chicago for te last few hours...
I ping 45 there, gota like that =)

ive been playing on your server for quite some time and i have to say that theres hardly no lag at all..and im playing from europe..

great server

oh and plesse dont change the rules =)

Edited by - SancheZ^^ on 16-09-2003 20:16:28

Corwin,

People would not be able to dockcamp indefinitely... If two or more people dockcamp a player, it's 30 minutes in total, not pr. player..

Otoh, if a some players gangs up, and dockcamp somebody, and the 30 minutes limit is up, just don't fire if you are the dockcampee.. Because anybody IS allowed to fire back when fired upon.

Dutch63

Your progress will be saved.

What was announced a few days ago was for the temp server, so i could take the main server offline for a hardware upgrade.

I was hosting the temporary server off of my machine, and that announcement was -only- for the temp server, as Azag said.