whats wrong with the server !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CryptLord]

whats wrong with the server? every 5 minits or so it crashes. its starting to get annoying. is it the hacker respossible ? if so plz dont do it ! if not whats the reason ! ?  :-w

[stayaway]

this problem has been bugging me for a few weeks now and it is starting to become beyond a joke !! all i wanna do is play my fav game on my fav server ! does the server have adequate protection against hackers ? as it doesn't seem to have. i thought this problem would have been sorted by now ?

[TIODS]

It's a shame that the Global Server is down or you would see that we are not the only ones..  

We're working on it tho.

TIODS

[CryptLord]

k thanks guys ! i hope it can be solved quickly

[Leviathan-9]

Problem: ????

Solution:

1. Go to your installation directory, Microsoft Games -> Freelancer folder and locate a html application named fldirectip.htp

2. Open it.

3. Enter the server IP and port into the indicated fields.

4. Copy that command line parameter starting from "-s" without the quotes.

5. Right click Freelancer shortcut, and add it into the "Target:" field, so that it's outside the quotes at the end of the line, for example "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe" -s###.###.###.###:#### . The # are to be numbers, and you should not modify them assuming you did step 1.

6. Start up Freelancer like always. Instead of using the Freelancer Global Server, it will now directly attempt to connect to the gameserver; this is not a guaranteed success but may or may not work depending on your operating system and system hardware.

I do know that many have known this solution for a long time; but many havent, and thus this was posted.

-- Some information I removed here.

Simply put, there is nothing anyone else but the server admins and the guys back at MS can do at this time.

[Frobozz]

K, the news on the Global is here:

http://www.lancersreactor.com

and firewalls won't help the server much as it's the port that FLServer uses to connect to us all that's being attacked.

[Leviathan-9]

[quote="Frobozz";p="158793"]K, the news on the Global is here:

http://www.lancersreactor.com

and firewalls won't help the server much as it's the port that FLServer uses to connect to us all that's being attacked.[/quote]

I can confirm that the information on this website is indeed correct; and that the customer support for Freelancer is disabled long since. Come this spring, the game will most likely be removed from any kind of monitoring, it may, or may not, exceed the date mentioned, but once it goes down in mid-late April, it's staying down.


Frobozz, I would like to point out that firewalls are specifically what protect TCP/UDP ports from hostile intervertion or even invasion.

Also, the multiplayer mechanism works so, that your computer connects to a specific master server, which is tracking all connected slave(=game) servers, making connecting more convenient and easier. At no point is the master server transmitting anything else but requested packets to your computers.

[Ninja-Jinkaz]

hopefully the server gets some one else to run it when it goes down for good