Unreal Tournament Players out there?

HairOfTheDog

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, our first attempt to get it together didn't go so smooth!... Ramius could play well till he had to leave, but I had a horrid ping there. Wonder if it is reasonable to expect folk from different parts of the country to get good pings on the same server.

I have noticed that you can't count on servers to always ping well that play well once... The ones I have put in my favorites have turned out to never be good again.

We can try again another night! Any suggestions from you guys on how to make it work better? - Maybe one of us should host after all, just so it is not so hard to find each other.

[Brett66]

We probably should have a list of about 6 servers (maybe 4 maps of DM,1 Team DM and 1 CTF). and we can simply go to the alternates if they're pinging too high. That server ran ok for me at first, but after about an hour it started giving hiccups.I'll do some scanning for some and post some server suggestions. We could all test them and see which ones work through the week. This will take some trial and error,but once we get the bugs worked out it should go much more smoothly.

Hosting a server might be worth a shot too. In fact I think I might try it tomorrow if anyone's interested. The big advantage to that is we can limit access to just our group.

[Brett66]

BTW- who was your brother. He wasn't "the Palistinian kid" was he?

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh no... He had left by the time you came in. His name is Ramius... both here and there.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah - several servers to choose from would be good... we can find each other that way too... you can tell who is in there before you go in. I will keep track of good ones I come across... - What time tomorrow would you want to play again?

[Brett66]

Let's go for 8 central which would be 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern. I can attempt to host or we can try some other server. Would that work?

[Brett66]

Though might be better to try a group of three or four servers suggested in the previous posts. It would be a simple matter of scanning all of the servers to see who's on it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yep... I can do that... If you aren't going to publish the server, you can FReepmail me your IP shortly before 6... and anyone else that is interested - and we shall try it out!

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, lets check in shortly before 6 tomorrow and decide.

[Brett66]

Yeah, I was considering just advertising the server as "Freeper" and make the password "Freep". Pretty simple.

[HairOfTheDog]

That works! Would like to see a published FReeper server... good for our image!

[Brett66]

We could do both: I could start with a hosted game and if everyone pings ok, we can stay with that. If it pings too high,we can bail out and go to the alternate list. Let's go with this list for now:

1. [CSHP] Wes1800][
2. [CSHP] M4e|Clanserver
3. [CSHP][RAGE]Clan PURE,MapVote3 TDM

That should cover all of the bases.

I haven't done this before so I could screw something up. If you don't see that server, just head to the alternates.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK! Sounds good..."FReeper" will be the name of yours... and "FReep" will be the password? Can do!

I have hosted a couple times... it goes pretty easy.

[Brett66]

We have a plan now, see post 72.

[Brett66]

Our next attempt will be 8PM central, 9PM Eastern Sunday

[Brett66]

Password will be all lower case BTW.

[HairOfTheDog]

I was late trying to come in (thanks for your reminder at 6:12!) then - Bad news! - I found your server and tried to get in - I could see you there... and got a "Package "de" version mismatch" whatever that is! - Ugh! - I have gotten the same error before on other servers, but only occasionally. I am running 4.36. Is that what you have? - I am going to UTWorld or whatever it is and see if I can find the problem.

Sorry to leave you all alone in there! I will see if it is solvable and check back!

[Brett66]

Oops, looks like that's my fault.I have ver. 4.32.I should have upgraded. We can hop on one of the alternates. I'll just dump this game I've got running.

[HairOfTheDog]

hmmm... OK - Going back in to look for ya.

[HairOfTheDog]

Hey that was fun... a bit of a crowded frag fest, but cool new maps, and a good ping for both of us until mine went straight to heck!

Fun to Frag (and be fragged by) a friendly face!. Lets do this again in the next day or so eh?

I didn't find anything specific at PlanetUnreal about the package "de" mismatch... maybe it is just a version problem we can fix when you download the latest patch. My ping on your server was playable 350 or so, so we should try it again, and see if the others can join.