Author Topic: Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby? (Read 1338 times)

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?

Kazan · **Reply #1 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

SSC-Kahn · **Reply #2 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.

WMCoolmon · **Reply #3 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.

Bobboau · **Reply #4 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)

Inquisitor · **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2004, 01:21:40 pm

IRC.

That way we get

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

Kazan · **Reply #6 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"

Inquisitor · **Reply #7 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

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Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?

Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?

Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?

Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?

Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?

Xfire as a possible FS2 open lobby?