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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: SSC-Kahn on July 06, 2004, 11:38:37 am

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: SSC-Kahn on July 06, 2004, 11:38:37 am

I don't post here that often but the other day someone told me of this neat tool called Xfire. It is an IM that does not make you alt tab or make you lag during a game.

However the main aspect of Xfire is that you can see what game your friends are playing and what server they are playing on. Some of the games supported by Xfire also have an instant join feature. How would you see people's game without them being on your buddy list? Xfire also allows you to see the friends of your friends. When I started Xfire, I was given a 'test friend' that would allow me to meet a few people.

A central 'test friend' of sorts could be put up that would allow a player to see everyone. FS2 nor SCP are currently supported but would it be possible to use Xfire for a lobby?

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: Kazan on July 06, 2004, 12:08:40 pm

i am implementing a IRC client for hte lobby.. it's just tedious and boring and takes a lot of time

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: SSC-Kahn on July 06, 2004, 01:17:11 pm

Well thats good to hear. You'll proly get it done faster than trying to use Xfire anyway. It took a very long time to make it work with Freelancer.

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 06, 2004, 05:31:52 pm

What about some sort of buddies support?

If the chat box is standardized (applied with the same function(s) everywhere) maybe you could have it tab b/t game chat and buddy chat.

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: Bobboau on July 06, 2004, 06:55:11 pm

and there's a bit of a problem at the moment, with a alt-tab crash that showed up just before 3.6, and I don't think it ever got resolved (was a low priority at the time)

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: Inquisitor on July 07, 2004, 01:21:40 pm

IRC.

That way we get alot of the things automatically that we would otherwise need to write from scratch, and, I have a production IRC network used for other game lobbies I am already managing, so, the servers are already there.

Just waiting on the skillz of da kazman :)

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: Kazan on July 07, 2004, 02:35:58 pm

my mad skills just whipped up Account Banning, Global IP Banning, Global System Messages, i'm about to whip up the server maintaining s2c ping times for both servers and clients

with that s2c ping time i'm going to add it to the server display, and i'm going to write a "who's online"

Title: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?
Post by: Inquisitor on July 08, 2004, 11:48:41 am

If you do an IRC implementation, you can just use the IRC commands to do all that, Kaz ;)