BF3 Joint Clan Alliance Part 2!

Details: Created on Thursday, 09 February 2012 22:21; Last Updated on Thursday, 02 May 2013 19:08; Written by Rooster; Hits: 3203

6/2/2012: As a result from the recent post in the forums (and in some part, my take from the WOTC guys) the official BF3 joint ops server has wandered into the sunset. It was a good run, and a great joint venture - I hope they feel the same as I do, in that some good friendships were formed, and I hope we see more of each other down the road. Even two great Christian-loving gaming groups have a tough time putting a dent in what seems to be just an over-saturated market that is game servers. While I'd love to continue running it on my own, it's just not in the cards for me now (see the post, rofl). In the end, it's not an end-all situation, we've survived just fine without official servers in the past, just personally sad to me that for whatever reason God just doesn't seem to have it in his plans yet for us to get one running and popular. Our group (and theirs, I'm sure) will continue on, using TS3 to hook up and jump on other servers and show em how the game's played :) God Bless, and see ya on the battlefield!

5/15/2012: Rcon Server is (finally) back up and running. All of it duties have been resumed and all should be well.

5/12/2012: In an apparent attempt to save Mother's Day across the world (or at least our clans), some higher power prevented the truck from delivering said power supply pushing the arrival date to this coming Monday. Server still runs, just without commands, should be arriving early morning Monday and all will resume to a proper functioning condition..

5/9/2012: The remote admin server took a dump last night - 1U power supply died and I have no backup for that particular unit. It's on order and server should be back online by Friday evening. Any issues, contact your friendly neighborhood Rooster :)

4/05/2012: An update has arrived for one of the admin tools which is going to cause some minor downtime in the next day or two. (the other tool expects to also have an update available soon but will not require any downtime). The tool will still work perfectly fine, but after the update there will be a few new commands to support features added to the most recent (R20) patch. It's an invasive patch and will not be deployed till I am certain it doesn't "mess" with our existing settings :)

3/29/2012: Not much to say, we've been tweaking things here and there behind the scenes to get the server dialed in, and listed on the HC filter, lol, which it is currently.. There is a 1.5GB patch file, and a server-side update (R20 for those who like to google and know what's what), so who knows what lies in the road to come.. Get the patch and join us on TS :)

I'm happy to report an alliance has been formed once again with our good allies in Christ, the [WOTC] Warriors of the Cross. As you can see above, our newly born server is online and ready for players! (Well, sort of!)

As always, expect some small bumps in the road as we tune the server settings and get things dialed in just right. We're going for a mixed gametype Hardcore server. Name is not set, just something I threw in there for the time being. We all agree that our clans will not have a presence in the name as it just isn't fair to either side. Instead, we're going to go with the likes of Polite & Friendly., etc. and run with something without clan mention in the title.

For those who still have procon installed (be sure you update it), you will be set up shortly, within the day. Start getting the word out, and start playing on ours, lol :)

The guide for admin setup and a brand new, flashy pdf file are located in the thread located: http://www.christiankeysmashers.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=45&id=5433&Itemid=105