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But:
a) if I was involved it would be a "vanilla" coop server. That means playing the maps and mods exactly how they are meant to be played. Sure those weird coop mods are fun but they are a different thing. But people don't like playing vanilla Quake coop over the internet, they want that bastardised 10000 monster and insane weapons and blingbling stuff. b) Netquake is unresponsive over the net (the ping is the problem, not the bandwidth ("speed")). Quakeworld is not "Quake" and its popular engines (and servers) are made for competetive multiplayer (obviously). Just try it. Darkplaces has its own protocol which seems to work rather well. But hey, it's Darkplaces, no good choice either. c) There would be 2-3 people playing for 2-3 hours a week I guess. That's not worth it. So as a conclusion: I will not invest anything into something like this. No money, no time, no (more) thoughts. And I highly recommend no-one else does (unless you really like doing it and watch the process/setup itself as archivement). If there is interest I could try getting a server ready for the time of QExpo though. No promises. how much work it would be to rip that protocol out of DP and rape it into SDL Fitzquake. Would people be interested in something like that?
i've looked at it, it's a pretty wildly different protocol, but if you grabbed enough of the right code, it should be doable. One problem is DP's internal variables data structures are not all the same, so you'd have to go through and rename variables and references as needed in the network functions.
maybe you could setup and maintain the server if we all throw a few bucks into a paypal account in order for you to keep it running?
maintaining a server is just too much work.
However, I could probably plug my laptop into the router and host some games on my home connection. That would be a minimum ping of ~60-80 and a max of 4-5 players I guess. That would be not much work and quite a bit of fun to setup. If you say "that day, that time, that mod/map" I'll try it. I like that idea. I want to play as soon as possible. No mod, just Quake coop in Nightmare with 3-5 players. Who wants to play?
not tonight though. or sunday, cos top gear is on :D
tomorrow maybe though? http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=154 (will be updated if something changes)
212.72.189.140:26000 = Darkplaces server with Warpspasm. You must connect with Darkplaces (even though FTEQW supports the protocol, it is jittery and crashes on the later map at the time of writing). I know this sucks, especially since it makes playing anything but the start map impossible for me� 212.72.189.140:26001 = ZQuake server with Travail. ZQuake is recommended as client, any QW client should work though. 212.72.189.140:26002 = Good old nightmare Quake. QuakeWorld once again. These will be gone again in ~2 weeks. Have fun! in theory I should be able to, er, connect?
sucks that it's coop though, I could have killed yo' ass. oh god - can you imagine ME messing round with Darkplaces or even worse ZQuake (which I have never used before) trying to figure out how the hell it works....? 212.72.189.140:27500
you can vote for the next map with next_map. Currect very random map rotation: 3ebluebeta alkdm04 gomdm2v2 shady 3egreenbeta baldm8 gomdm6 tridm1 3egreybeta cleaver kikdm3 tridm2 3eredbeta crdm2 lilith tridm3 agent doomed lundm1 utressor alcyone dranzdm6 pope4 alk08dm gmdm1 pope5
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