Friday, June 29, 2007

New CoD2 Maps and Redirect Changes

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Couple o'thangs to post about today...

First off, I uploaded a new CoD2 map rotation...looks to be a fair mix of small CQB-style and divided sniper'n maps. I tacked that new "ToyBox2" map onto the end of the rotation; thus far just been loading that one manually.

Secondly, we are get'n a LOT of CoD2 maps and they take up space and bandwidth on my commercial upload server, to the tune of 65 map files and 340MB of space. So I'm in the process of moving those to a free server. Many of the maps are already on the free server, in some cases that's where I found them to begin with. So the ones we have that aren't there I'm uploading. Most of you won't be effected by this as you already have those maps locally. But any new players may get download errors if I miss any in this synchronization process.
Just FYI, the same map files have to exist both on the game server and on the redirect server. So part of the process I must go through each time with new maps is uploading them to both places. Using this new free server will greatly reduce work for me (since many of the maps are already there or get uploaded by other game server admins). Plus it'll help keep me in the black stats-wise on my commercial server.

Lastly, Gonzo told me his nephew is get'n geared up to try join'n in on the FFC server soon. Not sure when we'll see that or what his player name is....have to bug the Gonz I guess.

Friday, June 15, 2007

New Maps, One Mod

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I added in 3 new CoD2 maps today. Nothing too fancy and the files are small but at least it's something new. Oh, and there's also one small new mod that will download. One extra free Orc kill goes out to the person who first spots what the mod adds.