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My experience with unpassworded servers has been largely good, but it only takes one jerk to ruin everyone's night. Having active admins with the capability and willingness to quickly kick/ban griefers will greatly reduce the risk as well as keep the game open to "everyone". Auto-kick tools are nice, but never cover all the caes and seem to backfire more often than they help, IMHO.

Who runs the server can kick players.

If someone on my server gives out the SimHQ TS IP address they will get kicked if I see it, and I will report them to Einstein. Any advertisement of the SimHQ TS information in my missions will be to the Multiplayer Teamspeak thread as Einstein commented on above, and you must be a member to get to see the details.

Anyone know if the text chat is logged on the server or clients?

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The comment I made about not hearing from non-SimHQ members is because they can't post!


When I first went into mp servers for A-10C I found that Moa's open stallturn server was a great place to fly. Many good people helped to answer my questions and also gave unsolicited advice that was much appreciated. I ran my server last night w/o a password and had three other folks in, too, all of us having a grand time (Eno's server was not available). If we run a 'SimHQ' passworded server then I suggest that it won't see four pilots in it together unless we schedule an event.


I'm sure that guy did not mean it EP. But, yes, every so often a jerk comes along.


WC

Valid points on both sides. So which one is it?

Thanks for the clarification re the comment, WC! Makes sense in hindsight!


Whether or not to use a password is completely up to the golden rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules." In this case, whoever is ponying up the server can set whatever password scheme they'd like: no password, short/common password, 128-character password changed hourly, etc. I, for one, will fully support whichever way Wreck or Eno decide to go and will be very thankful for the service they're providing the community.

So, in advance, thanks guys! (psst...What's the password?)

I vote for passworded server for the majority of the time, then maybe have special events and make it an open server. The idea of having a SimHQ member configure a server should be so that SimHQ members have a server to fly in, not to have yet another free open server.

Granted it is easy enough to host a server for pickup flights, and having a dedicated server might mean it is empty most of the time.... hmmm... so maybe an open server most of the time, and lock it down whenever we have a SimHQ event?

Damn, this is confusing!

- Ice,
Anytime you want a private party let me know! And Eno can run my missions however he would like to. I can see the case where everyone needs to be on TARS, for instance.

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On another note - designing missions is pretty durn fun because it involves a lot of logic: group naming, flags and zones and triggers, programming waypoints and WP actions and options, loadouts, WEATHER-just-wait!, and balance such that if the Clients don't do it right they lose.

So far I have two good working ones that are in final stages, one with ships that crashes (or sinks, whatever), and a couple up my sleeve. These have 12 slots - 4 Ka-50s (allied or opposing depending on the mission), and 8 A-10Cs in Cold Start and Warm / Air Start slots.

WC

Ewwww..... that sounded nasty.


Anyway, WC, no need for a private party, though I was referring to the Fly-In as one of those we should be locking down. Last time we flew, there were about 10-12 guys on the server, but only about 4 of us were on TS. Didn't do much for co-operation.

Would love to test out your mission though! How many pilots are you designing it for?

Uh-oh, you set Einstein into AD209 mode! 20 seconds to comply!!

I'll try to be more clear - I will gladly supply my missions to Eno to run on his server and will respect his desires to control the access to that server - it's his after all. If he's running a password and I want to run my server open then that's OK. I prefer open for reasons stated. Love and kisses all around.

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I added repeating announcements to my missions about using the SimHQ TS server for voice comms.

There sure seems to be a reload problem. A number of times now I've looked at my server in the morning after letting it run through the night and found it to have a DCS Stopped Working message - happened again this morning. I've also seen this in person. Don't know if a better Internet connection will help, need to test it more on Eno's. We'll get a copy of the mission to DCS if it continues after the next patch release.

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- Ice - 12 slots - 8 A-10Cs and 4 Ka-50s. I'm prolly pushing my connection with that many but the most I've had is about 6 Clients so far.


WC

It isn't a connection issue.