Hope you guys don't mind.

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03-27-2003, 10:57 AM
Garrett

Hope you guys don't mind.

I invited my friend Ru'afo to the server last night because I was having troubles hosting a game. So if rocks could kindly enlighten me on anything he had to do to get his to work I'd appreciate it (firewall or otherwise. I think I have all the ports needed open, but nobody can join my game :/)

Anyhow. I'm trying to get him on teamspeak too, but I dont want to overstep my bounds here. Hes a good guy, and he knows how to play as part of a team. So I can't imagine anyone having a problem with him, and basically, he'll be around only when I'm on the server.

None the less, let me know if I should refrain from inviting him in.

And about the smoke grenades last night.
With a sniper rifle, and a thermal scope you can see through the smoke to snipe the snipers. the tango snipes are the guys who kicked our asses the first and second tries (as theres three of them in a triangle of death). so I thought if I smoked the front area you could live a little longer.
03-27-2003, 11:43 AM
[AK]Bribo

Don't mind at all. It's all good. :D
03-30-2003, 11:43 AM
[AK]Rocks

[AK]Garrett

Here how I get around all the issues with Router/Firewall and NATing. I have my server sit on the cable lan segment along with Router/Firewall. My cable company gives you 3 there IP addresses on the Internet. Then I just run ZoneAlarm(Firewall Software) on the server itself. Bottomline is I don;t have to deal with constant F/W rules changes. My main game system (Client side) sit on the inside Router segment with non Internet addressable IP addresses.

BTW, the more people the better in my book.
03-30-2003, 01:00 PM
Garrett

So your server is outside your firewall?
03-30-2003, 01:14 PM
[AK]Rocks

No, Not at all, The server does act as a firewall for itself only. The LinkSys Router is the Firewall for the Inside PC's on a Private Lan segment. So it effect I have two Firewalls. One for the server and one for the rest of the network.
03-30-2003, 01:50 PM
[AK]Squidly

We need to set it up in adversarial mode for awhile. The non-stop
terrorist hunts are getting a tad stale.
03-30-2003, 02:01 PM
[AK]Hylander

Quote:

Originally posted by [AK]Squidly
We need to set it up in adversarial mode for awhile. The non-stop
terrorist hunts are getting a tad stale.

I agree. Although as I said last night, the AI mixes things up enough so that it doesn't get boring... nothing replaces the good ol' online player vs player matches.
03-30-2003, 02:47 PM
[AK]Rocks

Done and Back online!
03-30-2003, 06:00 PM
[AK]Gunny Highway

Just my two cents you requested adversarial and none of you are on the server tonight so we are stuck playing 2 vs 1 advers. Maybe it should be left on hunt until there are enough guys to support adversarial next time. If that's not a problem.

I just talked to Stitch and I guess yu have to bring down the server to change modes, seems like something for the dev's to work on. Oh well.
03-30-2003, 07:46 PM
[AK]Rocks

Please let me know what you guys want. For now I will return to Coop for tomorrow evening, unless heard otherwise. Signed caught in the middle.... LOL
03-30-2003, 08:35 PM
[AK]Abaddon

Sorry I had to leave tonight. The fiance dragged me out to see "Dreamcatcher." Whatever you do, DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE! BAD! Compared to this movie, "Glitter" is a good movie.
03-31-2003, 04:24 AM
[AK]Gunny Highway

Rocks I wasn't aware that you have to bring the server down to change modes, thats a real bummer. I didn't find that out until After I posted the previous message. Thanks again for the use of the server. We were playing 2 vs 1 lastnight and that got old quick. but around 10pm a couple more guys hopped on and then it wasn't so bad.
03-31-2003, 04:25 AM
[AK]StitchJones

Another Stephen King book ruined! It figures, I wish he would stop selling the rights to his books to have crappy movies made. Out of all the movies they have done on his stuff maybe 2 or 3 were good. The rest suck!

Sorry you got stuck Ab, I'll send you a copy of Glitter to clense your soul.

:-)
03-31-2003, 04:50 AM
[AK]Abaddon

It's too bad ... they had a pretty good cast. The problem is that King's books just don't translate well - except for straightforward fare like "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and "Misery."

And as for the RS server ... I really like the coop mode, because I sometimes hop on there when there's no one playing. You can kill time and wait while playing coop mode, but playing the adversarial mode alone just doesn't cut it.

Thanks again, Rocks, for hosting the server.
03-31-2003, 05:01 AM
[AK]Squidly

The Stand and Storm of the Century were pretty well done.
03-31-2003, 07:31 AM
[AK]StitchJones

"The Stand" was okay, I had some pureist based issues with the way they did it. But it was done as well as it could be.
"Shawshank Redemption" and "Green Mile" were the real gems. At least in my mind.
"Misery" was done wrong towards the end, that's all.
"The Shining" the Jack Nicolson verison was and still is the best out of all.
"Christine" was only good because John Carpernter directred it. :-)
03-31-2003, 07:55 AM
[AK]Squidly

The ending of the Stand was all weird and goofy and stuff, but I loved the apocalyptic beginning... wandering around the deserted streets of NYC and all that.

I'm really into SciFi/Fantasy/Horror that explores that angle... (Dawn of the Dead, anyone?) :)

Check out Storm of the Century...
03-31-2003, 10:41 AM
[AK]Hylander

I enjoyed Cujo & Maximum Overdrive as well. I liked "IT" as well, except for the very ending with the cheesy spider special effect.

The Tommy Knockers was really bad though.
03-31-2003, 11:15 AM
[AK]StitchJones

Dawn of the Dead was the greatest!!!! That movie is still the tops in my book, of course you have to also keep "The Thing" on top of that list too!!
03-31-2003, 11:16 AM
[AK]StitchJones

Quote:

Originally posted by [AK]Hylander
I enjoyed Cujo & Maximum Overdrive as well. I liked "IT" as well, except for the very ending with the cheesy spider special effect.

The Tommy Knockers was really bad though.

I still yet to see how IT ends, I have such a issue with spiders I could never make it thorugh it. Someone told me it was as bad as the spider from Krull.
03-31-2003, 11:54 AM
[AK]Squidly

Quote:

Originally posted by [AK]StitchJones
Dawn of the Dead was the greatest!!!! That movie is still the tops in my book, of course you have to also keep "The Thing" on top of that list too!!

The Thing is the best movie ever. Period.
03-31-2003, 02:46 PM
Garrett

I picked up The Thing game. I thought highly of it, its single player only, but it entertained me.

as a side note "Off topic mUcH?"

I'm Done.
03-31-2003, 03:22 PM
[AK]StitchJones

Quote:

Originally posted by [AK]Squidly
The Thing is the best movie ever. Period.

I will not argue with you on that. Allthough Escape From New York edges it out by only a slim margin.

And The Thing game was a definite OKAY game. I was just jazzed that a game was made on a movie that was just about 20yrs old. That kicks butt in my mind.
03-31-2003, 03:51 PM
[AK]Faxman

I heard there's a remake of Dawn of the Dead in the works, and it isn't being directed by George Romero.

If it ain't broke...
03-31-2003, 05:32 PM
[AK]Squidly

A remake of DAWN might be interesting, if only because of the setting. Mall battles with undead are always cool... :)

And Stitch - while Escape from NY is very cool, and one of my all time favorites,
The Thing is still A Number 1.
04-01-2003, 03:25 AM
[AK]StitchJones

That's cool man. The good thing is that both were directed by Mr. Carpenter. :-)