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Server.War2.ru / Re: Can hosting be fixed?

« on: December 28, 2014, 08:14:17 AM »

I know we've asked this before ... but I really want to know if its possible

if it is possible, what would it take?

how much money?

who would we talk to to fix it?

PLEASE stay on topic ... i'd like this thread to be strictly about fixing our hosting issue on the server... A good healthy discussion/brainstorming session about fixing our hosting on the server.

Thoughts iL ? ... Blid told me to mention "upnp"  im not exactly sure what that is but maybe you will know.

Sorry, was busy in reallife for last days, just got enough time...

"Fix hosting" is too common, it depends on many small things.
uPNP? It's really one of high-priority projects, i think it have to be transparently implemented into combat (and compatible with any other war2 version), as a loader.
You can use this: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,165.msg1466.html#msg1466 , thanks to Lance, but it requires manual clicking several buttons, that's not obvious for most casual players therefore.

Not sure which % of players will it cover.

UDP NAT traversal? It's a very interesting and new technology, that could be used also, but release steps are not clean for me now...

Some kind of VPN? Also one of tasks to implement for those who will not being covered by uPNP and nat traversal. We can do that after providing smurf-detection project, which is also one of high-priority project, to be included to loader. Because VPN is easy way to bypass an ipban system.

All of this is about to let people host games and let others join. That doesn't cover coflicts as here: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,205.msg526.html#new

So, "fixing the hosting" in definitely the thing to be implemented, but it's not the question we can answer just "yes" or "no".
We will implement it gradually, step by step.

About "how much money":
This is a big question also. I don't see an easy answer. We have to make a clear technical project before to hire anobody. Otherwise we will get some kind of useful trash...
Well, let me say: i have plans to begin to implement all these things myself, i have plans for everything for years. I can begin to find some kind of 3-rd part programmer, to make some source-code of such projects after we have $1000 or more. I don't think it's possible to find good and fully qualified programmer with less money. I'd prefer to it myself, but my main problem is time.

This program is for broodwar and is open source.

https://github.com/mca64/mca64Launcher

Yes, that would be the greatest project, could resolve most of our problems, but... this program is not opensource...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Since we're talking about Donations to help cover the cost of the server...

« on: December 28, 2014, 07:39:42 AM »

Hey guys, I'm an admin of the "Warcraft 2 Combat Edition" and the "Warcraft 2 Server" facebook groups. They each have ~1000 members/likes.

Hi, Frostbitten, nice to see you here!
Let's advertise these facebook groups together with server.war2.ru project and combat also.

Who are facebook groups admins now? You and Burnt, right? Need to be at least 2 alive and trusted admins for each group, just to be sure we will not loss them, i think so.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Hosted Games dont Show up

« on: December 28, 2014, 07:25:00 AM »

I think it's a server bug. Have to update bnet to lastest, maybe it's already fixed there.
This 1.9.9 has some useful improvements, but it also have some bugs.
An yes, it's duplicate: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,155.0.html

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Since we're talking about Donations to help cover the cost of the server...

« on: December 26, 2014, 06:12:58 PM »

omfgz  ... fine. ill make a new group.

Let's contact Burnt before

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Let's make Strategy & Tactics section?

« on: December 26, 2014, 04:05:45 PM »

the best idea is to create a STRATEGY & REPLAYS section

To rename Replays section?

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Since we're talking about Donations to help cover the cost of the server...

« on: December 26, 2014, 04:01:08 PM »

his facebook account (which was the admin of server.war2.ru) is banned, i dont even know whos officially in charge now

Oh! I hope he is not the only one admin there... It that possible to ask facebook admins to unban him? How do they work?
Anyway, need to ask Burnt...

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Server.War2.ru / Let's make Strategy & Tactics section?

« on: December 26, 2014, 03:45:15 PM »

Is there anything to post there?
Not sure if that would be good to just copypaste this: http://occult.war2.ru/war2.warcraft.org/forum/viewforum.php-f=5&sid=cf2cca37ee314fb15f8d0b25128a28fd.htm

But i think, Strategy & Tactics should be.
Not sure how to call this section, I can just steal section name&description from there...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Since we're talking about Donations to help cover the cost of the server...

« on: December 26, 2014, 03:31:36 PM »

Thanks to iL's suggestion  .... I think I just found the solution.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Warcraft-2/108198202547978    <-- almost 30,000 people have "Liked"  Warcraft 2 on facebook!!!

We need to contact BuRnT immediately.

1) Tell him to log into his server.war2.ru facebook page (or give me the password to the server.war2.ru facebook account)
2) Go to    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Warcraft-2/108198202547978   
3)  click on "   29,025 people like this topic"  and see every single person that liked it
4) start friend requesting all 30,000 of them under the server.war2.ru facebook account

even if only 1% get on the server... we got 300 new players who have already played the game before.

Agree.
5) to let BuRnT invite us to this group (yes, i have a facebook account also) and give us some privileges to admin it.

Then we could make some announcements as i understand and people will see that in their news.
6) to add button "login using facebook" to our forum. And also a facebook button "i like this" on forum. And also a block "our group in facebook" on server.war2.ru or forum.

But i'd prefer to make our stuff working before inviting newbies:
1. to upgrade bnet to lastest stable version and apply most planned features
2. to update combat to make it fully compatible with win7-8-10, with no palette, UAC or SS problems.
3. to release some kind of antihack + portforwarding software.
Then we will be 100% ready to invite new players and be sure they will not leave.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Donations for war2.ru project

« on: December 26, 2014, 02:22:50 PM »

Instead of burnt donating $2500 to viruz for the next war2 festival, he could hire a programmer to fix some of the problems the server has.

At least to let us discuss how to use that money before donate it to viruz or programmer making something useless...

My thoughts for $-tournaments:
1. at least 3 winners should be rewarded.
2. to make the tournament format giving equal chances for as many people as possible
So, 1 is easy, 2 is a question to think...

Anyway, sponsor is always right, so we follow any conditions given by him, if anybody wants to donate

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Since we're talking about Donations to help cover the cost of the server...

« on: December 26, 2014, 02:13:22 PM »

Does anyone have any real good guess as to how much it would cost to advertise our server? or where would be good places to advertise?

Yes, a very good question!
I think we should advertise war2 in social networks. It's our future or at least the present time.
I still didn't think about payments for advertisement, let's think about that...

But i'm sure we need to make some working solution before advertise. I mean win-7-8 problems, hosting problem, SS and several more technical problems, that makes war2 difficult for new players.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: White screen in chat problem

« on: December 26, 2014, 02:02:43 PM »

Let me split this topic from this ban request: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,194.0.html
related to this topic also: http://forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,181.0.html

1. do you have it on win7-8? Not on XP?
2. did you try to remove/return ddraw.dll file? It causes problem with chat SS, but fixes the palette (really fixes?)

I think the problem is really the banner changing, need to make something like the same palette or w/e.
I also have plan to research ddraw.dll thing, since it's opensource and then rewrite it.
Would appreciate if somebody get it and explain the problem and how to fix it.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: White screen in chat problem

« on: December 26, 2014, 10:35:44 AM »

going white

What does it mean, "going white"? Can anyone send SS/possible photo if SS not working?

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Server.War2.ru / Re: war2 occult

« on: December 26, 2014, 09:54:48 AM »

Once I get that, I'll change the forum link to point here. I should be able to recover most/all of the old forum and can just lock it for history purpose.

Nice to see you here, Axolotl!
Good news about possible recover, we will wait!
You can also make a redirect for each page: from your_site/forum/viewtopic.php-t=XXXXX to this_site/forum/viewtopic.php-t=XXXXX, we will either setup the same forum engine+data on these pages or wake proper redirects to the nearest topics. So we can save all the search engine requests with their weights.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Donations for war2.ru project

« on: December 26, 2014, 05:03:15 AM »

Added bitcoin address also: 1M2rbWJ9S8qp4nGWFLvtTZinswseR1oggL
Never used it, so need to try also.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Donations for war2.ru project

« on: December 26, 2014, 04:03:23 AM »

Sum1 make a donation banner and put in the game lobby linking to this thread.

Good idea. I think "sum1" would also be happy to get some additional payment for her site&forum hosting...

Dont know how friendly/ease is that webmoney thing, never heard of it before, will check later cuz im on cellphone.

But should add bitcoin wallets, its super easy and i heard you can now buy bitcoin with paypal.
You can have a bitcoin wallet for each purpose: one for hostfunding, other for tourneys etc..

Ok, i'll check bitcoin wallets.
Which payment methods are popular?
I use russian payment called yandex.money, not popular in other countries.
As i see, webmoney could be converted from and to paypal also (with comission).

Also added paypal account: war2payment@gmail.com
Not sure how it works, never used, would be great to test that.