I think it would be cool if we had some servers, that would be password protected but the passwords and the IP´s would be shown here at this forum. The servers should be reliable. This way the people using firewalls (like me) would get to play on a safe server after opening the port for it. This would also prevent occasional sunday night players (Alias newbies) who don´t use this forum, from playing in these “high class” servers.
So what do you think???
[edit: It should be stickied of course]
just use the SD server …it rocks 
AND it has the latest server patches
:moo:
that is of course u cant get in it
ET is so damn popular its bugger hard to get on a decent server
…And full of stupid newbies not knowing how to play!!
Just think of it: some servers that only the forum users have access to… mmm “elite server” “no newbies” mmm I call that a heaven. 
I launched my server last night and in 5 minutes 20 slots were filled. Gotta love it I know I sure do. Need the stability patch though.
And besides it is hard to find a secure server in these days. All the hackers and such…
well I have been playing rtcw for 2 yrs and playing et since release of test and I dont think hackers a really a problem.
well the game is so new so yes there are alot of newbies out there but I know of probably 20 servers I usually have a real good time on.
Packets pipe #1
any ND server
TimeLord
Circus maximus
oWo Beer Garden
Cheateu Pain
clanyellowpages.com <==Thats my server shamless plug
thats just a few of my favorites.
When is your server on (in GMT) and what is its IP. I haven´t got ASE or Gamespy because I am using linux.
Well the server is up 24/7 I will post the ip later tonight(dont have it now at work, and it just came up last night) but it is in Texas.
So if you are in Texas, which is GMT -6 and I am in Finland which is GMT +2 and the clock is currently ca. 17:00 here. That means that the clock in your end is: 9:00. And you said that you are at work. So do you work in night shifts or what??
24/7 how does that work is it a dedicated server and if so don´t you play yourself?
Wait a second… why do you have to open a port to play behind a firewall? Do you block all outgoing traffic by default? You certainly don’t need any ports open for incoming traffic on the client end of things.
Yes I do. The firewall stops everything coming from outside, EVERYTHING. So I need to open the port from which I want to recieve things.
Or wait all answer packages are let through so I guess the game files could be those.
Well I am not in texas I am in ohio. Right now its 9:50 in the morning. The server is hosted by www.hurricanehost.com So its not running on my home pc if thats what you think Also you dont need to open a port for outgoing traffic, if so you either have something very messed up or are very paranoid
But isn´t everything coming from the server incoming.
I have no problems with outgoing, if I had you couldn´t see this as I couldn´t send it.
Oh I didn´t know you were in Ohio that means it is only GMT -5.
By the way what is your job?
I believe it has to do with the type of packet UDP and TCP???(<not sure on that one) I run a router and it has a built in firewall and I never had to open a port to play a game. Now to do file transfer or something over Instant messanger yes I have opened ports but never for games.
Oh well good news then.
What is your job by the way?
I mean not every boss lets you use computer/internet during the day.
You shouldn’t need to open any incoming ports as a client. Your client requests info and the server answers back. A port would only need to be opened if you were running some kind of ‘server’ on your end. I have all incoming traffic blocked except a few services I use occasionally (DCC, VNC, FTP, etc). It works pretty much the same for any rule based firewall.
Ok thanks.
But what do you think about the closed server thingy. “The elite server”
Passworded servers are always nice. I’ve been part of many game communities where some servers are passworded, but it’s not uber secret. They will advertise their password on a community forum or the server’s forum or something of that nature. This way it really does help weed out the casual smacktard who doesn’t bother to read the manual, stop at websites / forums, and as a result also doesn’t happen to drop drop by a forum listing the password. It really does help to eliminate a lot of nonsense players without keeping the password so secret that the server is often empty. This is the happy medium between no password at all and keeping the password secret to only a select few (which in turn results in near empty servers).