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Postby Ace Rimmer » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:34 am

Well, when I cannot connect or see the "playback" listed it's because I'm a work.

Here you go...

When you open the recording file, a '.dcrec' file, a dialog box such as this should open...

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Because I'm at work and everything is blocked, I don't see the normal screen but it does give me a ServerLANIP with which I can then go here...

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... and type in and connect. If you are connected, not blocked, and follow the proper steps, "Playback" should appear in the server list and you can just join it like a normal server. I didn't notice an explicative in one of the server name so I covered it up for the kiddies... :wink:

*Top pic taken at work, bottom at home.
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Postby PsychicKid » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:32 pm

I've been out of the DEFCON loop nearly all summer, and I notice that almost all of the servers online are just dedicated servers, and none of them seem to be 6 player except for the Totally Random mode.

Does anyone here have a 6 player Diplomacy dedicated server up? I didn't see one last night, in progress or otherwise. It all looked like 1v1 and that 6 player Totally Random. While Totally Random is interesting, I hate playing it. It's just too silly. I prefer (more or less) realistic city placements and populations, which is actually the main reason I got DEFCON in the first place, because it used real cities in their real locations with slightly realistic populations (in most cases).
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:45 pm

There is a diplomacy server up when you tell it to :) You should still have the admin password for the TotallyRandom server (if you haven't, pm me a new one), and some simplifications have been made to the way you can change the configuration: http://dedcon.homelinux.net:8000/dedcon ... andomAdmin
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Postby world idiot » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:57 pm

bert, i think ur slowdown budget is a little harsh, it just lost me a game, how about upping the amount of time allowed, also some players request for speed 4 all the time during a game, and if i request speed 2, then it will still chew my budget up :( . Apart from that, gr8 work bert, keep it up
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:21 pm

world idiot wrote:bert, i think ur slowdown budget is a little harsh,
It certainly is! I run out of budget every single game. For 1vs1 games, you can evade to the Duel servers, they don't have a slowdown budget. Password is murof.
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Postby Wasgood » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:54 am

Dedcon comes up for less then a second then disappears when I click on the drec file.
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:04 am

Odd, that may mean the communication with the metaserver produced something entirely unexpected that causes the program to exit. Could you try running plain DedCon from a console window/dos box? To do so, press the Start/Windows Menu button, select "Run program" (or similar), type in "cmd". This should open the console. Then, if DedCon is installed into the default location, type

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cd "C:\Program Files\DedCon"
.\dedcon
and paste the output here.
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Postby PsychicKid » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:06 pm

bert_the_turtle wrote:There is a diplomacy server up when you tell it to :) You should still have the admin password for the TotallyRandom server (if you haven't, pm me a new one), and some simplifications have been made to the way you can change the configuration: http://dedcon.homelinux.net:8000/dedcon ... andomAdmin


So that password you sent me has not changed at all, just the way to change the game mode? Sounds good to me. So to change to Diplomacy I would do:

/include default
/include diplomacy

Or does default and diplomacy need to be in brackets?

Thanks.
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:27 pm

PsychicKid wrote:/include default
/include diplomacy
Precisely that. And to log in, you have to be named PsychicKid and say "/login <password>" just as before (the name requirement is new).
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Postby Wasgood » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:15 pm

DedCon: Dedicated Server for Defcon 0.8 - Copyright (C) 2007 Manuel Moos
Server key found in file C:\Program Files\Defcon\authkey.
ServerKey = <secret>
Listening on port 5010.
Metaserver IP: 80.175.29.66
ServerLANIP = 192.168.1.12
Demo limits received. MaxGameSize = 2, MaxDemoPlayers = 1, AllowServers = yes.
Server key authentication succeeded, key id = ******.
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:47 pm

Well, that looks normal. Next test, put the .dcrec recording into the DedCon installation directory and start DedCon with

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cd "C:\Program Files\DedCon"
.\dedcon -l <fileame of the recording>
and paste the output here.
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Postby Player7 » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:05 am

I can't seem to get recordings to playback. I open the file and after it loads the C:\ jargon it says 'invalid' (excuse my know nothing about DOS speak) A server seems to load, I think it does because it says 'Dedicated game server' in green, but no 'playback server' is this because I'm a demo player? or maybe because I'm logged on as a guest on my computer?
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Postby Wasgood » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:17 am

DedCon: Dedicated Server for Defcon 0.8 - Copyright (C) 2007 Manuel Moos
Recording file 1.drec not found.
Server key found in file C:\Program Files\Defcon\authkey.
ServerKey = <secret>
Listening on port 5010.
Metaserver IP: 80.175.29.66
ServerLANIP = 192.168.1.12
Demo limits received. MaxGameSize = 2, MaxDemoPlayers = 1, AllowServers = yes.
Server key authentication succeeded, key id = <<<<<
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:37 am

Wasgood wrote:Recording file 1.drec not found.
Try it again with a recording that is actually there, please? :)

Player7: I don't think I understand what you're doing and what the 'invalid' thing may be, could you post a screenshot of what you do to open the recording and the error message (pasting the text suffices)? Indeed, the appearance of "Dedicated Game Server" suggests that a server is started, but without a playback. Yes, being a guest with limited write rights may have something to do with it.
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Postby Wasgood » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:08 pm

Sorry noobie mistake there.






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