Destiny Of Sol

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Nice mod (EVO based?) for me after 88 Flak and Shadow Of Fear
DeathKiller maybe you will answer (if you want)
Partyally mod contains Czech infocards and system messages but other content is english…

Yes, i saw command that switches only system messages to english but they are already english.

So any way to switch it at english globally?

DeathKiller

Hi,
Yes, mod is Evo based, but we removed almost everything that was in Evo and vanilla FL.
Mod is story-based, there is war between two factions. Factions have storage (to store commodities permanently) and foundry (to convert few types of commodities - ore to plates) and they have to research new things, such as weapons, ships.

I forgot to translate some messages to English, I will fix it tomorrow.
Infocards are in Czech and English, at least it should be.

EDIT: Our web is http://destinyofsol.cz/, but we don’t have English section on forums yet.

SWAT_OP-R8R

Interesting mod….
What I’d like to know is why large parts of this mod (starspheres, planets, solar models, etc) where taken from Crossfire 1.9 without permission or any form of notice.

This is just one my many files that were taken from my mod.

While I tend to share my work with other modders which ask for permission I have a real problem with people that simply take what is not theirs.

DeathKiller

I’m (server-side) programmer, so I don’t know what is in our mod. But our modder said:

Starsphers are not from crossfire and if there is some of yours, it is not intentional. Because we will use only the one we made. Planets are taken from your mod, that’s right, but we will change them cause some of them don’t look good. I took max. 5 solar models and black hole. That should be everything. And if you ask why I did it… I took that things when I launch project alone. Then other people join in and we started to make our own stuff which we replace the old one. But honestly, how many things did you took from other mods when you started?
PS: Freelancer is old game… There will be other games of this type and FL will be forgotten. It is only about preserving our CZ/SK community. You shouldn’t freak out because of few things and you can write us private message.

SWAT_OP-R8R

But honestly, how many things did you took from other mods when you started?

none actually

I started modding this game only a few weeks after its release and since that have either used stuff that was clearly labled as “free to use”, asked the original authors/creators for permission or created the stuff that i need by my own.

However, I didn’t freak out. I made my point clear and requested an answer.
We also dont need to debate on how old Freelancer is and that there are other games of this kind. I am fully aware of that and certainly would have helped out with the creation of your mod if you had asked in first place.

But right now I just want to see the CF content removed from it.
While I have to take a 2nd look on the starspheres to confirm it I meanwhile had the chance to check the other files of the mod.
Next to the solar models and the almost 70 planets there are 5 weapon models from Crossfire, various planet textures and the solar mats for the stations

I agree that we can do further discussions about this matter in private, in order to determine how to deal with this situation. I am certainly not happy to see my work in your mod without having given any permissions to you guys, but on the other side i have no interest to see your project/community going down the drain because of that.

DeathKiller

Our mod is basically solar system. If we remove your assets, it will damage our server and mod. It means if we remove that, our mod can’t work. So we are going to create our models and textures and replace all Crossfire assets. I hope you will agree.

corpse

“but on the other side i have no interest to see your project/community going down the drain because of that.”

Maybe here is the place and time to humbly ask swat for permissions to use His Works- just a thought

HunterKiller

Hopefully, this will all get sorted out and things will continue to go as planned. Freelancer needs to survive anyway it can.

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@DeathKiller or someone of modders: trying to run mod to play last update.
It tells something like:

base connection is closed: unknown download error

And the folder of updates looks now strange:
Death Updates - something like this.

So how to fix or to workaround it?

DeathKiller

Hi,
Sorry about that, but our FTP server doesn’t want to communicate with some people and I don’t know why…

I restarted it now, but I don’t know if it helps.

You can download all updates manually and copy them to game folder, that’s fastest workaround for now.

First update: http://uloz.to/xoMnQ2RH/vsechny-updaty-rar

Second update (v7.3.0.2): http://uloz.to/x126v2Ft/update3-rar

Third update (v7.3.0.3): http://uloz.to/xAKdDE13/update1572015-rar

4th update (v7.3.0.4): http://uloz.to/x36ndqbB/update-2072015-rar

5th update (v7.3.0.5): http://uloz.to/xDYEQ4fV/update-582015-rar

If you want to try to use updater after installing updates manually, you have to create file “FLUpdater.db” in EXE folder and write “11” into it (e.g. with notepad). Sometimes, the updater magically starts to work after you install these updates…

Current FTP server is written by me and I don’t have any problem with it, but many people reported the same problem. I would like to use HTTP server instead of FTP, but I don’t have much time to rewrite it…

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Thanks! Will try.

Try to use FTP passive mode for your FTP Server - it is bit slower but usually it helps.

DeathKiller

It should be already passive (C# FtpWebRequest is using passive mode as default). Server is using port range 7000 - 7200 for passive mode, but I think it doesn’t matter.

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Now it tells error:227 - entering passive mode

DeathKiller

It looks like FTP isn’t my friend anymore… 227 is success code, not error.

You can try to run updater with /log parameter, and then send me “Death FL Updater” folder from Desktop. But I think it will not help me.

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Well. All my info (without passwords?)
EDIT: File removed by me

DeathKiller

Yes, sometimes it’s better to have more info than less I’m using FieldLog library for this logging.

There is probably problem with first update, which is very big (about 650MB). I don’t know how to fix it. I’m going to update our software and use HTTP instead of FTP in (hopefully, near) future. Then, It should be more stable.

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Thanks. Will play with workarounds

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Server detected. How to download?

PadL

Hi, sorry for the delayed message
We are in the alpha testing phase and we haven’t a clear intallation program for it. just wait a while and we open english section of the forum for download alpha version installation program. I just working on it