Na, I just meant that it might help in the case of HK. It is just a method to protect the server, I just wanted to note it, nothing more.

Yes I have in the past set up a password and it is being discussed again but, when players see servers with password, they just go by them and not worry about checking them out. I do.

I haven't really advertised the server yet but it can be seen on the list. Even though the downloads are minimal, there are three times the downloads as there are players.

I did find out until early this morning that one of my players play on your server, the RJJDS server and if you have this patch/program in it, that may be one reason my server has crashed because of that player using the same freelancer files to play on my server too. Instead of having more than one FL directory. I know from experience that eve n after using the, 'Restore Backups' it doesn't always work. I have different FL Directories myself. I give them the name of the mod instead of leaving them named Freelancer.

I'm thinking of leaving the Communities anyway. I don't know how to mod very well and the person that was helping me quit Freelancer to play other games. I try and fail and am tired of trashing it and reinstalling it again to start over as well. I have Tools I don't understand yet they seem easy to use. I just know how to run a server and handle players is all. I've done a good job of it and been commended for itand have admined other servers over the years but, at the way things are going now, it's becoming too much for me anymore and I just wanted to help keep Freelancer going forever. 6 years I've played nothing but Freelancer and hundreds of mods and dozens of servers. 3 years running servers. Things have changed, players are too new and many have never played or even know the story and more want to cheat than learn so it's becoming more of a hassle than a satisfaction for me. I have more hours in this game than 85% of the players out there if not more and I hate joining server where I got 30 + players trying to tell me how to play the damned game even though I've played it since May of 2003. And those are from players that can't even answer my questions about the SP story line.

I try to read all and figure things out for myself because I hate to ask for help.

Players continue to jump from server to server without a clean reinstall by just deactivating the mod and activating a new one without know the ramifications it may cause another server. I have three servers here and one gaming machine and I get the same problems on each one of them so, it can't be that I don't know what I'm doing, it's the players not knowing how to use their mod manager and their Freelancer installs.

I've also seen member join here and have never once seen those names on any server anywhere asking for this code and that code to manipulate this part that and it given freely then they are thankful and gone. It didn't used to be like that. NO need to join the Private Admin area when you can get it off the public forums. Think about it. I thought that was the purpose for the Admins and Server Ops forums were for, to discuss these sorts of ideas and addition's and if they'll be good for usage on our server or your server or mine. That seems to have got thrown out of its own translation though.

I don't care what anyone has or developed, as long as it doesn't affect my server or forum without my knowledge or approval and/or hasn't been included in my mod for use. it's great to see the accomplishments being done to improve the game.

New in v1.45:

• "All objects on Nav Map" has become "Everything on Nav Map";
• "Command line" can be used to specify an alternative path to Freelancer.exe (if it starts with quote or the second character is a colon).

@F!R ive been thinking about that for ages wee allready have a client and i was going to add that to the client if the crc didtnt match and not the same ver close fl
but one problem i seen was to get the client on first
wee might be able to do it with hook not look into it yet
but wee allready had a few on crashing the server
and it seems they just been using the clients exe
i think the main reason it crashes wee dont have eny
original systems in so its prity bad when you get one on

so even with this new version it dosent realy matter cos its nothing new its allready been happning long before its release

... don't get me wrong - i don't blame anyone.

Just trying to get you wizards 2 work

(at something which is a long time overdue imho).

..... the main reason is, that paranoiacs like me don't like auto-up-daters.


That was the main reason part 1.
Part 2 is, that i know, how fast i can code chaos

and i don't want that skill to come together with the
possibility to spread those freshly coded bugs 'on the fly'.

I personally doubt, that would be necessary here
(while i still would be glad to see a nice anti-cheat).

If someone wants to visit a server with a wrong client,
it would be easy to change the version with reshack
or maybe you could even just use the fl.exe of that mod with other stuff.

This hack might give us maybe 1 or 2 additional smarta** in a while,
who switched off version checking and visit this + that server
or just click the wrong one.

And the ideal way to deal with that, would be to have a tool
at the server, which just keeps it away from crashing
cause of wrong or silly client requests.

Silly client requests should definitiv crash the silly client (only).