Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:47 pm Post subject:
C&C Online: The Replacement for GameSpy!
Subject description: Generals, ZH, Tiberium Wars, KW and Red Alert 3 online gaming lives in death!
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the official online multiplayer support for Command & Conquer Generals, Zero Hour, Tiberium Wars, Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3 provided by GameSpy will end by June 30th. We've got together with the guys from Revora, GameReplays and other C&C community sites to solve this problem for once for all.
The service is called C&C Online and it should emulate GameSpy in the same server that host this site and many others. Here's the official announcement:
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Hello everyone! We are proud to present to you C&C:Online, the community-driven GameSpy replacement! Below you will find all the information we currently have to share.
WHAT IS C&C:ONLINE?
C&C:Online is a GameSpy emulating server for modern Command & Conquer, created and hosted by Revora.
It's based on our T3A:Online project for BFME, adapted to work for all the Command & Conquer games affected by the GameSpy closure (Generals, Zero Hour, C&C 3, Kane's Wrath, Red Alert 3).
GameReplays.org will be working with Revora in managing, developing and promoting the new online service.
C&C:Online lets you use the game's native online interface, exactly like you are used to now (no LAN). It works by using a simple launcher that redirects traffic to our server. In order to participate in the new service, you will need to download the C&C:Online launcher for your game(s), and create an account at Revora. Your Revora account name is then synchronised to be your new "EA" account name. Don't worry, you will still be able to choose different nicknames.
While we cannot realistically expect everybody that is currently using the official online service to move to C&C:Online with us, we hope that our service can convince a sizeable number of users. We have every reason to look forward to a bright future for our games and communities.
C&C:Online is supported by:
WHEN WILL IT BE RELEASED?
Very soon. Make sure to keep an eye on the C&C:Online Facebook page.
Once it is released, we will post links to the new C&C:Online website, from which you will be able to download the C&C:Online clients, as well as find installation instructions and links to support and community forums at Revora.
HOW MUCH IS DONE?
We are confident that we can release C&C:Online for all five affected C&C titles (Generals, Zero Hour, C&C 3, Kane's Wrath, and Red Alert 3) simultaneously, in time for the GameSpy shutdown.
The first release will contain the following features for all titles:
- Playing games
- Hosting and joining games
- Chat functions
- Buddy systems
The server is still under heavy development at the moment in order to make it by June 30th. The basics (login, chat, buddy system) for all games are working, but the listing of Generals and Zero Hour games in the lobby is still somewhat problematic. We're doing our best not to let you guys down!
WHAT WILL BE DONE LATER?
After the initial release, we will continue development to add more features.
We will be working on:
- Statistics
- Ranking
- Automatch systems
Together with GameReplays we are looking into a method to verify users that want to keep their old nicknames (to prevent impersonation), and to link these to existing statistics and rankings.
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?
We need this news to be spread as far across the global C&C community as possible, so help us spread the word!
We could also really use some donations! Revora is a non-profit association, and so all proceeds go towards server costs and improving our infrastructure.
In the same vein, if you happen to own a VPS hosting company and have a spare server, we would really appreciate the support. We will host C&C:Online on Revora's dedicated server for now, but with so many players this is probably not a viable long-term solution.
As soon as this project goes live, we will provide additional support for it here, information about it and more. Revora already supports other GameSpy multiplayer games such as Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2 at T3A:Online, an initiative that PPM also supports. Last edited by Banshee on Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:25 pm; edited 5 times in total QUICK_EDIT
I think the main site's theme is applying the a white background to the images; you should be able to fix it by editing the CSS. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam) Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Brazil
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:34 pm Post subject:
Yea, but I can't find out what, in the css file, is doing that. I'm trying to inspect the image with a lot of browsers and none of them are showing me anything useful. QUICK_EDIT
Damnit, I was just about to post that I the page to my desktop and then suddenly noticed that the images that were saved weren't transparent, even though the ones I saved directly from this topic earlier were. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Location: I'm too busy conquering the world!
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:00 am Post subject:
Objective 1 - Completed!
Objective 2 - Keep the base network online and functioning until new game mods arrives. Do not fail me, Commander. _________________ Mod Leader and founder of World Domination
Shouldn't CnCNet have some affiliation with C&C:Online? Both are doing essentially the same thing for different C&C titles. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Shouldn't by that logic CnCNet have some affiliation with XWIS? Both are doing essentially the same thing for the same titles.
Well they don't, case closed. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
The relationship (or lack thereof) of XWIS and CNCNet is hardly the same as both have been around for a good while (and there's probably more to it), whereas C&C:Online has just been announced. Hence if XWIS and CNCNet wanted to come together they would have done it already. And what's with the attitude against cooperation? No wonder the C&C community feels vague at best when there's no association between different parties. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Of course cooperation would be better IMO. They shouldn't be the same community but definitely they should be 'trading players'. I'm sure people who play pre-Generals titles would be interested in playing post-Gen titles in a nice tight-knit community and vice versa. Both of those communities can link into the modding community too, like the holy trinity of C&C. QUICK_EDIT
It's not about anything against cooperation, it's about this "this looks similar, why is there no partnership" as if it's an requirement. I'm not saying anything against cooperation, but demanding from two parties with unrelated goals while two other parties with the same goal don't have it is useless, imo.
Also it's not like I don't want people to work together. I already voiced my thoughts about calling "C&C Online" a community project while it's excluding most of the community (at the thread in the official forums). _________________ QUICK_EDIT
XWIS emulates the WOL server in a somewhat stripped-down version, but was (or still is?) sponsored by EA.
CnCNet emulates LAN. Its coders specialize in the classics, but I think most of them haven't played anything that was released after Westwood's closure. _________________ Administrator of CNCNZ.com and EVA Database, the C&C Wiki QUICK_EDIT
CnCnet 4 uses the LAN interface to provide internet play. CnCnet 5 is pretty much equivalent to Westwood Chat. External chat + multiplayer client. It also patches in the spawner system used by Wchat for C&C1 and RA1 QUICK_EDIT
The account takeover time has come! To claim a multiplayer account as yours, register on the Revora forums if you haven't already and make a thread in the new Fair Play and Member Management section. Here is a guide on how your application should look like. It might take time to verify your account as more people apply. _________________ Administrator of CNCNZ.com and EVA Database, the C&C Wiki QUICK_EDIT
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C&C Online: The Replacement for GameSpy!
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