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Hello boys and girls,

I was thinking of a tool which lists the servers and players, allowing you to easily add your favorites, and to see if your mates are online.
I'm often checking http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/, still I don't find it really convenient.
I'm not either satisfied with the built-in game browser.

It seems most players aren't interested in that kind of tool, but I am.
I'm using GNU/Linux.

1) Are some people actually using that kind of tool with OA ? The few searches I made brought me to some abandonned websites and nothing really usable, maybe I didn't search well.
2) I think it would not be too hard to develop such tool, but I haven't developped anything for years and I'm not sure I'd have the time & motivation to make one. Maybe YOU will do it for me instead :P Joking, but I could try to do something and if I do I'll give feedbacks here.

:)

Try XQF, it should be in your repository.

It is... and I missed it, how blind.
Thanks, I haven't played with it yet but it should be okay.

Just do a few adjustments to it's configuration (I think I posted a guide:ish in club nub) and you should be sailing away with Open Arena servers across the board.

Had enough time to play :)

I was searching for some config files but it's not the way to go, so if someone wants to make XQF suitable, here is what to do :

step 1:
OA is not listed, but Q3 Arena is. Add dpmaster.deathmask.net inside Q3 ; works like a charm.
Delete other master servers if you do not use Q3 ...

step 2:
Every game is listed. We would like to only display OA/Q3.
So configure Quake 3 adding your path/to/openarena/ioquake3.x. Once it is done, check the Appearance menu, and check "only show configured games".
Should clear the view.

step 3:
Refresh the server list.

step 4:
add your favorite servers, go in Players Filter, and add any player name you want :)

step 5:
Enable filtering according to players, only servers with someone on your list will be listed.

step 6:
Done ? Done, I'm not that maniac to do more :)

It's handy, also appreciated to be able to use Rcon to administrate servers from it.

btw, you only need brickwedde ;)

yeah, but if I see you're online on another serv I'll go there just to bother you :P

Hmmmm sounds interesting

I use XQF with my PCLinuxOS and it works like a charm.  I use it for open arena under my quake 3 game.  I use it for urban terror set up as my Wolfenstein game.
google up the master server address to each game you want to add.

I also use XQF for the following listed games
Open Arena -  (set up under Quake 3) - set master server protocol 68
Urban Terror 4.2 (set up under Wolfenstein)Warsow - set to master server protocol 68
Nexuiz 2.4 - master server protocol 3
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - master server protocol 84
Tremulous - set to master server protocol 69

  You can also set it up to us the GSlists of master servers...Google it up.
If their is very much interest i could write up an article on how to set up Linux games in XQF.

XQF is a great server browser but it needs updated to include all the new open source & free games.
Any programmers out there?  The project & code is at sourceforge!

Game Not Over,
Slippjigg

69.

thanks for the correction fromhell!  I have mine set at 68 and it works, but i will switch mine to 69 - just cause you know more about it.  When I switched it to 69, now it is only picking up .77 servers....sweet.

I set my Wolfenstein up to work with my Open Arena, instead of setting open arena up under quake 3 arena.  I done this because i play both OA and ioq3a.


SlippJigg

I use this direct link :S / Its the same as yours... (i edited i should read before posting anything :P)
http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=openarena&sort=ip&showplayers=yes&hide=both&hideheader=1&hideplayers=1

Is working for me to find servers without bots ;)

(i mean if u are as lazy as i am to reconfigure the xcf thing)

Very nice, thank you.

I will try something similar, I'm mostly on protocol 68 but the link is broke but this does me nicely

http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=openarena&oldprotocol=67

I got an error message when double clicking a server:
~/.q3a directory doesn't exist or doesn't contain "baseq3" ("demoq3") subdirectory. Please run Quake3: Arena client at least once before running XQF or specify correct Quake3: Arena working directory.

To fix this I did:

cd ~
ln -s .openarena .q3a
cd .openarena
ln -s baseoa baseq3

I unchecked in the Quake3 settings "set fs_game on connect".

I had to check "Terminate XQF [when launching a game]" because otherwise XQF it runs at 100% CPU/core.

The servers running on protocol 68 give an "Invalid Game Folder" error, at least the ones I tried..

The problem is that the ones on protocol 69 cannot be reached at all, I mean the game is started and trying to connect but it doesn't connect. I don't understand why. I'll try again tomorrow. Does it work for you?

It's been a while I haven't played OA and I don't have a linux box near the hand, so I can't check, sorry :P

Strange your XQF reaches 100% CPU, though, maybe the symlinks you did were a not that good idea, i'm not sure.