Guide to on-line play for noobs

[Guttersnipe]

probably a noob question & quite possibly supposed to be in Troubleshooting but here goes :

I made a pack of addons (loosely based around the Inv44 2.0 release - I burnt them to a CD in .rar form & then posted said CD's to the three peep's in our Flashpoint appreciation society (or husbands beer swilling/wife escapism evening to give it it's offical title).....

Having talked them all through the install proccess we hit a wall. Players can connect to the custom missions I've made, however they then get kicked for 'player uses modified config file'. Odd thing - one of the guys had his laptop over & I dragged the folder over onto his machine via LAN, and he can now connect with no probs, even remotely.

I'm assuming the cd must have a corrupt config ? We checked that all the other addons etc matched file sizes etc and all seems identical. So:

1. Which is the config file I need to redistribute? (I have a folder marked 'BIN' - is this it?

2. Does the mod folder name affect someones ability to join ?(surely all the same addons are loaded anyway?) Also I use the original flashpoint (with RES) and they're using the GOTY edition - does it make a difference which folder the game 'starts in' n(ie the window beneath 'Target' in the shortcut properties?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[c_jay_ie]

Hi guys,

I'm on a wireless Broadband connection 24.0 Mbps, but I'm still getting lag problems on GameSpy.

Ping is usually great, but then it just jumps to the 600s for a few seconds (as i've been told) before returnign to normal.

It's a bloody nuisance! any ideas as to what I can do?

[OFP Lover]

I read the entire topic.
its useful; thanks. specially thank to caz (thread starter).
but I have more questions:
How can we recognize AI and human players (and their names) in a game?
How can we create and publish and play with others our MP missions on the game servers?
Where can we find a complete help for any mission for newbies?
and probably some other questions in the future!

[OFP Lover]

is anybody there?!

[Anguis]

No ID's to differentiate human/AI - play enough and it should become easy to tell (some human players have custom faces that allow them to be recognizable, something I recommend you do - search the forums for it)
You can submit your missions to the admin of the server you play in
As for creating missions, I really don't have much experience, but the following I think is a good place for info: OFPEC

[OFP Lover]

thanks Anguis.
I have another question: how does a CTI mission end? have it a time limit, or another criteria?

[Anguis]

I've never played CTI, but here's some info:
MFCTI

[OFP Lover]

thanks, that was realy good (at least very better than nothing).
I will appreciate tutorials for other missions too.
a personal question: why did you never play CTI?

I have another question.
i have a high ping around 300ms (but rarely encountered interrupting lags).
some guys called me a lagger!
is that true that a high ping or lag guy causes everybody in the game to experience the lags? i think it is not true, and depends on the mission and if i have direct interactions with the rest of players (e.g. if i am in a truck that other team members are in its cargo).