Re: Server 1.4 Update Problems

I also work for a company which takes care of a large ISP/GSP and server hosting company. http://www.gamearena.com.au

We have over 1000 game and voice servers running continuously ourselves. (both public and rental)

Our company also develops a very powerful game server management software solution called GameCreate, which is used by close to a thousand server hosting companies and private server owners. http://www.gamecreate.com/

With GameCreate, we use two master packages to roll out server software to customers, other hosting companies, private server hosters and the public servers for this GSP/ISP. Both ranked and unranked. (We are an official BF2 and BF2142 ranked provider, using Windows servers)

The methods currently required to update this mod to the latest version are incompatible with our systems as they are with several other large GSPs, so we are unable to provide up-to-date mod servers for our customers, the general public, and for the other users of our server management software.

This is very unfortunate as we provide a very quick and easy to use method for people to set up and use game servers and mods.

As other have requested, I am also requesting a package be offered for everyone, but particularly large GSPs that require a basic file package that can simply be uploaded and unpacked to update the mod.

This is a fairly standard necessity for large GSPs and I believe that the mod would have greater exposure if the server files were offered in a more standard method.

I'm happy to manually update the mod several times a week if necessary. That's part of my job. Using RSS feeds when new server builds are released is also pretty standard fair, and something I use extensively.

Sorry for the long post, but I really think the situation a lot of GSPs are in warrants an explanation and to stress the importance for server files in a particular format.

Re: Server 1.4 Update Problems

Well said

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