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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434172 is a reply to message #434170] Tue, 03 August 2010 08:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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GEORGE ZIMMER wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 08:28

JohnDoe wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 09:02

Didn't EA release some C&C games as multiplayer-only free downloads? Maybe we'll just have to hang tight for another 5 years

They released C&C95, RA1, and TS for free... the first of which doesn't even HAVE multiplayer, so, not quite.


Eventually Renegade will have a free release, but not before RA2 and Yuri's Revenge.


Uh... what about this? (files are actually now downloadable from my post in the thread, FilePlanet and a different place and format on Understorm.) Does this not work with the downloadable versions?


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434176 is a reply to message #434013] Tue, 03 August 2010 09:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Does anyone still play C&C or Red Alert?

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434177 is a reply to message #434013] Tue, 03 August 2010 09:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, i know a few people what would play it.

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434179 is a reply to message #434176] Tue, 03 August 2010 10:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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JohnDoe wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 17:04

Does anyone still play C&C or Red Alert?

I play red alert aftermath Thumbs Up


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434317 is a reply to message #434169] Fri, 06 August 2010 15:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 15:22

For now we're focusing on releasing TT over the patcher and possibly getting EA to release it for free/very cheap on STEAM.


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434319 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 06 August 2010 16:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The only thing that can get Renegade 'great' again is if people start playing it again.

I don't want to say that the TT project is wasted effort but I will say that it's not going to have the effect it's hoping to have. TT will have more of an effect on mods such as APB, AR and Reborn rather than on Renegade itself.
Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434326 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 06 August 2010 23:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Renegade needs more players. The only way it will get more is if EA decides to release Renegade as freeware, like it did with C&C Gold, Red Alert, and Tiberian Sun/Firestorm.

EDIT: RP2 is the best mod ever made, everyone should play it.

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434575 is a reply to message #434158] Wed, 11 August 2010 11:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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reborn wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 07:29




Olaf disables serial validation
Olaf controlls XWIS. If he was to disable serial validation, it would mean that you could flood the torrent scene with the renegade ISO's and a valid serial for installation purporses. This would have the added advantage of not splitting the community.
However, while Olaf owns and operates XWIS, he is not in the position to disable serial validation without consent from EA.
If he did it without their consent, they would likely remove there redirects. If they did not boot back up their WOL servers (which they likely wouldn't), then Renegade would be no more.


EA gives the game away for free
I heard EA are contractually oblidged to not give it away for free for some time still to come, probably something to do with it being part of TFD which is still being sold.
However, they have released CnC games for free before.



@serial validation, heres where things went wrong in the first place.....for those of you who don't know, BHS put in their own bid to EA to take over atleast the renegade portion of what is now XWIS but ultimately conceded to just having "mod" powers (crimson and blazer specifically). Remember, XWIS now gets money from EA to pay for server costs etc, so it was in their interest to maintain control....BUT if this wouldn't have happened, Crimson would have had access to the update servers, would have been able to get the ladder going instantly, etc

Moving on, I think removing all serial checks is a good idea but even if all (or most) of the server owners want to install a mod to do this (which they do) it would still mean people would need to connect through gamespy or direct connect which is not ideal....


@renegade released as free, this is the best possible thing that could happen (ESPECIALLY if timed with the release of TT) but will most likely not happen with a year or two and not because of some contractual thing but because they would have to release RA2 first....for EA it doesn't matter, they wouldn't be making anything open source, so licensing stuff from Miles/Brink etc is a non issue


Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434695 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 13 August 2010 06:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dthdealer wrote on Sun, 01 August 2010 07:11

How do we get Renegade great again?


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this is not a real renegade forums ,some one made it up

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434699 is a reply to message #434575] Fri, 13 August 2010 07:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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trooprm02 wrote on Wed, 11 August 2010 14:00

reborn wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 07:29




Olaf disables serial validation
Olaf controlls XWIS. If he was to disable serial validation, it would mean that you could flood the torrent scene with the renegade ISO's and a valid serial for installation purporses. This would have the added advantage of not splitting the community.
However, while Olaf owns and operates XWIS, he is not in the position to disable serial validation without consent from EA.
If he did it without their consent, they would likely remove there redirects. If they did not boot back up their WOL servers (which they likely wouldn't), then Renegade would be no more.


EA gives the game away for free
I heard EA are contractually oblidged to not give it away for free for some time still to come, probably something to do with it being part of TFD which is still being sold.
However, they have released CnC games for free before.



@serial validation, heres where things went wrong in the first place.....for those of you who don't know, BHS put in their own bid to EA to take over atleast the renegade portion of what is now XWIS but ultimately conceded to just having "mod" powers (crimson and blazer specifically). Remember, XWIS now gets money from EA to pay for server costs etc, so it was in their interest to maintain control....BUT if this wouldn't have happened, Crimson would have had access to the update servers, would have been able to get the ladder going instantly, etc

Moving on, I think removing all serial checks is a good idea but even if all (or most) of the server owners want to install a mod to do this (which they do) it would still mean people would need to connect through gamespy or direct connect which is not ideal....



I was saying remove XWIS serial validation. FDS's do not validate serials at all, they're just capable of retrieving the hash.
I made (and by "I", I actually mean a collective effort from myself, SaberHawk and Adad) a plugin for removing serial validation for servers hosted on GameSpy, but really it's preferable though XWIS (how are the people without a valid serial supposed to know which servers they can join without getting booted for an invalid serial?).
I'll be releasing it this weekend, although I think Zunnie already zipped it up in the SSAPB release.



Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434717 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 13 August 2010 09:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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plugin for removing serial validation for servers hosted on GameSpy
SK made this ages ago! It's downloadable in the useful ressources sticky.


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434726 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 13 August 2010 09:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What the fuck? lol...


Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434738 is a reply to message #434013] Fri, 13 August 2010 14:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The one way to make Renegade great again? Well, play RP2 of course.
Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434755 is a reply to message #434726] Sat, 14 August 2010 00:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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reborn wrote on Fri, 13 August 2010 18:56

What the fuck? lol...

Well, GSA got no more serial updates after, say 2004'ish, so servers had to do something about it...


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434807 is a reply to message #434755] Sun, 15 August 2010 04:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Goztow wrote on Sat, 14 August 2010 03:34

reborn wrote on Fri, 13 August 2010 18:56

What the fuck? lol...

Well, GSA got no more serial updates after, say 2004'ish, so servers had to do something about it...


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434812 is a reply to message #434807] Sun, 15 August 2010 06:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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By having TT alpha/beta events with a lot of players.

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434918 is a reply to message #434013] Tue, 17 August 2010 08:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I honestly believe the only likely possible way to get more players is to make a WOL clone, then if by chance someone (not the WOL clone operator) flooded a release of a renegade torrent directing them to the clone.

Obviously that's all hypothetical.



Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434940 is a reply to message #434812] Tue, 17 August 2010 16:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Sun, 15 August 2010 14:10

By having TT alpha/beta events with a lot of players.

This was already suggested, but some of the other server owners weren't as enthusiastic to say the least..


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434946 is a reply to message #434013] Tue, 17 August 2010 19:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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We (that is TT) plan to have a big beta test event hosted on a BlackIntel box. We dont know when this will happen as we want to make sure 4.0 is stable/bug-free enough first.


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434975 is a reply to message #434013] Wed, 18 August 2010 06:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #434977 is a reply to message #434975] Wed, 18 August 2010 06:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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luv2pb wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 09:11

It doesn't matter how good TT is or is not if no one is playing Renegade.


As Crimson's friend, you could ask her a favour of giving you the REOL files.



Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #435006 is a reply to message #434013] Wed, 18 August 2010 15:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Crimson doesn't have the REOL files. Anything made by RE is at best incomplete and barely operable anyway. The TT team could whip up a suitable WOL clone in a matter of days (a couple weeks if you include testing) but moving the community to a clone is a nightmarish process that will most likely split the community in half and ultimately end up in no one moving to it.

As for disabling serial validation, I am quite against that idea while XWIS is still prone to page flood abuse. Serial banning is the only weapon we have against them at the moment. There are other types of floods that are possible as well that we would be completely unable to stop without XWIS serial banning.


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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #435019 is a reply to message #434013] Wed, 18 August 2010 23:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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look at crimson ruining your shit with the cold hard facts

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Re: How do we get Renegade great again? [message #435023 is a reply to message #435006] Thu, 19 August 2010 00:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Crimson wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 18:14

Crimson doesn't have the REOL files. Anything made by RE is at best incomplete and barely operable anyway. The TT team could whip up a suitable WOL clone in a matter of days (a couple weeks if you include testing) but moving the community to a clone is a nightmarish process that will most likely split the community in half and ultimately end up in no one moving to it.

As for disabling serial validation, I am quite against that idea while XWIS is still prone to page flood abuse. Serial banning is the only weapon we have against them at the moment. There are other types of floods that are possible as well that we would be completely unable to stop without XWIS serial banning.



I thought REOL was complete and you was in possesion of it, my bad. Although, as you pointed out, it's mainly irrelevant anyway as One could be made in a reletively short amount of time.

However, I disagree that it would split the community. You could list the FDS on both XWIS and the clone at the same time, most players that joined via XWIS would not even be aware of the type of server they joined.

In any case, if it did cause a split, then those faithful to XWIS would just stay in the XWIS only servers. I can't see servers like n00bstories and Jelly moving from XWIS, as they see a nice amount of players anyway.
However, there are a mass amount of empty servers sitting on XWIS, they have nothing to lose by listing their server on both platforms, or just migrating altogether.

While it's true serial validation on XWIS means that most threats are blocked, it's by no means fool proof, and anyone with a slight amount of knowledge on XWIS protocol could prove that pretty easily. Although granted, serial validation is nice for many reasons, and it's better to have it.

However, serial validation is of little importance to the server owner with 0 players. You can't justify turning it off globally on XWIS for said server owner, so a clone is at least a viable alternative.
You could perhaps even make the torrented game include a little patch that sends XWIS upon joining their hardware serial information. Better than nothing.



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Tell people to go out and buy all of HL2, then make a Renegade conversion mod. Thats how end of story bro. HL2 <3

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