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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: sk89q on June 30, 2007, 03:15:35 PM

Title: Online Server List Browser
Post by: sk89q on June 30, 2007, 03:15:35 PM
I have made a online server list browser (http://digitalpaint.therisenrealm.com/tools/serverbrowser/) :D I have no clue what real use it could have though, other than for a passerby who had never heard of DP, and happened upon my site, and happened to have wanted to see how many players were on at a given time.

It can be accessed via the main site (http://digitalpaint.therisenrealm.com/) under tools.

(http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8775/opsljv9.png)

Loads kind of slowly (unless you view a cached version).

Tested under IE 6, IE 7, Safari, Opera, and Firefox. Works well under Opera and Firefox. Rows do not fade when you refresh "Update" in Safari. IE 6 and IE 7 freeze slightly. IE 6 doesn't have the top black box hover over the page when you scroll.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: Cobo on June 30, 2007, 03:22:16 PM
Very nice, it is definitely helpfull to me, since the ingame and external server browsers dint work for me due to my ISP blocking ports or something.
But yours works, thx.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: sk89q on June 30, 2007, 03:26:17 PM
Excellent. Glad to find out it's useful to someone =]
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: ViciouZ on June 30, 2007, 03:38:23 PM
Very useful to people behind proxies... there was one like this for a bit but it was hosted badly and took years to work. Thanks for all your support to the community, jitspoe should give you a developer tag.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: KiLo on June 30, 2007, 05:15:41 PM
Very nice. I especially like how it tells how many people are online at that time.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: Matze on June 30, 2007, 07:08:42 PM
Great thing ;)

Would it be possible to actually make it show how you ping to the servers that are on the list? Or would that be too much of additional coding?
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: Smokey on June 30, 2007, 08:15:13 PM
Hmm, we only have like 50 of these. :)
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: BliZzaRd on June 30, 2007, 08:26:01 PM
Doesnt serverbrowser do the same thing? its in your paintball2 file on your comp... but anyway good job... Its cool to see how many people get involved with this game

-<VQ>BliZz
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: y00tz on July 01, 2007, 12:58:29 AM
Open-source?

Also:
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This utility is provided by Digital Paint and provides no guarantees of accuracy or service. The server listing is provided for informational purposes and your uses of it is of your own responsibility.

Digital Paint is the producer of Paintball2, are you sure you meant to put that?
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: jitspoe on July 02, 2007, 01:55:46 PM
Very nice, it is definitely helpfull to me, since the ingame and external server browsers dint work for me due to my ISP blocking ports or something.
But yours works, thx.
Is that still the case with the new builds?  Well, the external browser hasn't changed, but the internal one uses UDP now, so it should work in all cases.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: DaRkNeSS on July 02, 2007, 01:59:53 PM
Cobo, have you tried the All Seeing Eye?
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: Cobo on July 02, 2007, 02:22:37 PM
ASE used to work until a few months ago.
I got all the servers, but when I tried connecting to one it just wouldnt connect.
I guess I havent tried connecting to a server with build 19, maybe even 18. But thats because I dont have an unmodified client. I'll try it when I get my computer back.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: sk89q on July 02, 2007, 03:39:13 PM
Great thing ;)

Would it be possible to actually make it show how you ping to the servers that are on the list? Or would that be too much of additional coding?

It may be possible with some sort of plugin (Java, etc.) but I'm not sure what use it would be. There is already the server browser that comes with the game.

Open-source?

Hmm?

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This utility is provided by Digital Paint and provides no guarantees of accuracy or service. The server listing is provided for informational purposes and your uses of it is of your own responsibility.

Digital Paint is the producer of Paintball2, are you sure you meant to put that?

Oh whoops. I meant to put the name of my site.
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: Matze on July 02, 2007, 11:27:51 PM
I was just saying that cause some people might be confused if they go on that list, see a low pinged server, then join it and  ping 200+.

I don't need it so don't do it if you don't want to ;)
Title: Re: Online Server List Browser
Post by: sk89q on July 03, 2007, 12:44:46 AM
I have put a note about that now. It shall guide those lost peoples.