[IFOC] Server Hosting - Want to help test the configs?

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I haven't really played much brutal doom, but I didn't really like what I saw; seems like it would be too distracting.

Also, I try not to host weapon mods to try to keep a pure doom experience. SMWG I can tolerate since it adds dual wielding which is neat, though even in that case I also offer UAC ultra without weapon mods for those that prefer it.

If Parkour worked in zandronum I'd host that, but unfortunately that's a little ways off. (~zdoom 2.6)

I haven't tried Stupid LMS, don't know much about it. When I get time I'll try it.

MM8BDM is fun but there's already a ton of servers for it, if there's a specific game mode you'd like that you can't find or something, let me know.

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Zand servers got updated to 2.1 on July 3rd,

Outdated information for compiling the server binary for this specific version only:

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

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Servers updated to zandronum 2.1.2 on 7/20/2015,

note that all of the stuff I mentioned on the last post is outdated now

[Boingo the Clown]

It seems like every time I go to play I have to download a new version and install it.

Groan.   

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The Ultimate Needs More Detail Survival server has been removed due to a serious multiplayer issue in E2M8, it's possible for a player to ride the elevator up, then die, then nobody else will be able to get up there after that.

While this is easily fixable it makes me think I need to go through this wad again to make sure there's no other stuff like this I missed (that might take a while) 

I'm not sure how I missed that before.

[darkstone]

How do I join? I have Zandronum.

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1. Run Doomseeker, and wait a few seconds while the list populates

2. To filter so that it shows only my servers, type "IFOC" in the server filter, you'll see a list of servers that I'm hosting.

[darkstone]

Doomseeker?
(shoulders droop, trudges back to Zandronum download page where I didn't grab that)

[DestroyedEDGE]

no one plays when i join.

[Awesomedude249]

no one plays when i join.

Sorry, but is that really relevant? Nobody playing isn't a problem, it just means that nobody is on the server right now. If you bump a topic, it should be to add something to the post at hand, not to state a minor thing that isn't that important.

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no one plays when i join.

Sorry, but is that really relevant? Nobody playing isn't a problem, it just means that nobody is on the server right now. If you bump a topic, it should be to add something to the post at hand, not to state a minor thing that isn't that important.

Thanks Awesomedude but please give me a chance to respond to stuff like this.

Most of us are pretty busy these days it seems. If you get on IRC you might be able to find somebody to play with, depending on the time of day, weekends are your best bet.

You can PM me if I'm on (usually weekends), when I'm ready to take a break I'll join up and play a few rounds. There might be some other guys (or gals) in #IFOC that would be interested in playing, too.

EDIT: Also please don't hesitate to bump this topic if you have something to say about the server cluster. IMO this topic should be exempt from the bumping rule to avoid one off topics like "I can't connect" or "I want to request a wad to be hosted". This sort of thing is pretty common, there's several topics like this on the Zandronum forums.

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Servers have been upgraded to Zandronum 3.0 a while back (I couldn't log in for a while so this reply is a bit late). For those of you following Zandronum, note that this means that Zandronum is now compatible with up to ZDoom 2.8pre-441-g458e1b1 / GZDoom 1.8.6, which adds tons of features (Zand 2.0 was only compatible with zdoom 2.5.0).

See this Zandronum forums topic for more information on the release: https://zandronum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8500

There were some compatibility problems with Chex Pack -- something to do with thing bridges, also the Large Zorcher sound disappeared and some things got moved out of the zandronum engine and into skulltag_actors.pk3.

So there's a new version of Chex Pack to go with this release, as far as I know this didn't effect any of the other servers except MSPaintDoom, which has been (partially) fixed.

I played a few levels on every server and it seemed to be fine, but don't hesitate to reply to this topic with any issues you find.

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The servers are down temporarily, I'm working on a couple things

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The servers are I think configured correctly, at this point I just have to go through and test the servers. It's a lot for me to go through on my own, would anyone be interested in helping out with testing server configs?

To test all you need to do is help play through the servers and look for things like whether you can break maps with the flags (e.g., being able to jump in a map that you shouldn't or the reverse, or stuff like being able to exit in DM maps (which would be bad)) and making sure that the maplist in each server is beatable.

Note that I host things other than Chex, ideally it would be nice if testers had plutonia, TNT, ultimate doom, and Doom 2 as well as the Chex wads. Worst case scenario I can run through these maps myself, though.

Please post here if you are interested, hopefully we can find some span of time that works for everyone (maybe we can knock this out some weekend -- not this weekend). The servers aren't up 24/7 right now, but I'll put them up just for testing when we find a good day to do it.

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The servers should be up now, let me know if you have any suggestions for wads, especially Chex stuff.