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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: TopAce on June 30, 2003, 03:36:17 pm

Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on June 30, 2003, 03:36:17 pm: How often do you play on the PXO? What are you impressions about FS2 multiplayer? What skill pilot are you having?
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: karajorma on June 30, 2003, 04:04:09 pm: I tried to get into Multiplayer a few months back but couldn't find any games that weren't already running or password protected every time I tried.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Hippo on June 30, 2003, 04:20:19 pm: Im guessing that Gamespy Arcade supports FreeSpace? It prbably is used more then... (If it is)
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: JC Denton on June 30, 2003, 04:39:33 pm: Last I checked, FS2 wasn't supported by Gamespy Arcade, since [V] had its own network for multiplay. Besides, don't you have to have specific code for GSA to function in a game?

And anyways, I rarely (if ever) played FS online because I've got such a poor connection to the internet.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on June 30, 2003, 05:26:45 pm: I have just played on PXO with a man of absolute 0 knowledge of english, he couldn't understand what I wanted with c,3,1. His longest message was : ?????????

Otherwise, the connection was slow, and data missed. I was firing at an Osiris for hours, but it hasn't inflicted any damages. But otherwise PXO is a good thing.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: IceFire on June 30, 2003, 06:18:08 pm: Haven't played FS2 multiplayer since probably 1999. And I had so few games. One was great...the one with a couple of V devs was the best I played for sure :)
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: DeepSpace9er on June 30, 2003, 07:36:48 pm: There's somewhat of a PXO community left.. maybe 10 or 12 i see the most frequently. I cant host a game because of router reasons and most of the games are pasword protected anyway.. so i just stick to getting 500 DFcrosses in Single Player :)
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: CP5670 on June 30, 2003, 07:38:53 pm: I used to play for several hours every day at one time, but now have not played in over two years; maybe I should load it up sometime...
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Unknown Target on June 30, 2003, 07:55:57 pm: I haven't played PXO in a long time. The last time I did, the same day, my dog died :(

It's not like there's many games, either.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Taristin on June 30, 2003, 08:20:44 pm: It's been a while since I've played as well. For a while, it seemed like it was taking the route of Battle.net where the only people on were 10 year old kids who thought they were G-d's gift to the gaming world...
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: silverwolf on June 30, 2003, 11:11:14 pm: i used to play pxo till about 2 months after i joined a squad it died so i left pxo and became a beta tester
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on July 01, 2003, 07:50:47 am: Has anyone validated his/her own missions? I posted mine to [email protected] but I received no feedback, and my mission is still invalid. I have followed the instructions of www.freespace2.com/missions.cfm as it was written down, but still no response.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: karajorma on July 01, 2003, 09:25:40 am: [V] are no longer validating missions IIRC. Kick in the teeth to all of those who worked hard on mission pack 3 really. :hopping:
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Hippo on July 01, 2003, 11:39:03 am: [V] doesn't do anything FS related anymore...
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Blue Lion on July 01, 2003, 03:04:34 pm: I haven't played in months really, shame too, I was pretty good. Good enough for squadwar anyway
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on July 02, 2003, 08:03:33 am: Is the PXO server basically slow, or there is a problem with my Internet connection? I was firing at a target for hours, saw the impact of my missiles, but my target hasn't damaged.

I just wanted to ask all of these, because I need at least one another man to test my Multi Team vs. Team and dogfight missions. I haven't seen them in the game, only in FRED.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Cetanu on July 02, 2003, 08:39:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
Has anyone validated his/her own missions? I posted mine to [email protected] but I received no feedback, and my mission is still invalid. I have followed the instructions of www.freespace2.com/missions.cfm as it was written down, but still no response.

Like the others already noticed: [V] doesn't care much about FS2 on PXO anymore, if you want details about my email dialog with Todd M. why there won't be new valid multiplayer missions >> check the topic on the BDHR forums.
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Originally posted by TopAce
Is the PXO server basically slow, or there is a problem with my Internet connection? I was firing at a target for hours, saw the impact of my missiles, but my target hasn't damaged.

I just wanted to ask all of these, because I need at least one another man to test my Multi Team vs. Team and dogfight missions. I haven't seen them in the game, only in FRED.

You know that the PXO servers only provide the interface for chat, visible game servers and stats storage? You don't actually PLAY on the PXO servers. So any lag effects you encountered are a connection problem between the hosting player (or standalone server) and the client computers.
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Drew on July 02, 2003, 12:29:49 pm: i played on PXO for a while about a year ago, then i lost my internet connection for about 2 months so i quit playing.....

i just recently started up again.....
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on July 02, 2003, 12:41:27 pm: If you are a logged in PXO player, please write your pilot name, so next time if I we meet somebody, let us know who we are playing with.

Guess what my pilot name is... :)
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Drew on July 02, 2003, 04:14:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
If you are a logged in PXO player, please write your pilot name, so next time if I we meet somebody, let us know who we are playing with.

Guess what my pilot name is... :)

Death Box...
and i have no idea what ur pilot name is:rolleyes:
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: TopAce on July 02, 2003, 04:58:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Drew
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and i have no idea what ur pilot name is:rolleyes:

Did you want to wrute 'your'? Mine is TopAce
How surprising, isn't it? :)

I have spent a little time examining the rankings on PXO. The leader is Admiral GTD_Hades with 0 flights, one kill and about 2 and half million scores. Isn't our Hades that Hades? I hope not. Otherwise There is also an Admiral I can cheat, there. Funny :nod:
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: LtNarol on July 03, 2003, 08:42:33 am: I used to play PXO quite a bit back in 2001 (those were the glory days of PXO), then I took up modding and I haven't really played freespace much since - barring of course the occasional batch testing of weapons and ships ;)
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: castor on July 03, 2003, 12:09:55 pm: Been PXO'ing some hours a week for the last two+ years.
I still think its great fun (given the right circumstances) - probably going to stick with it as long as it's kept alive..
Title: The good, the bad, and the PXO
Post by: Drew on July 08, 2003, 03:50:25 pm: the only people that still play regualrly are the Dark Wing squad......