Launching game directly on a server?

Very good idea! This would indeed save some time. Maybe if not via hooking it would work using AutoIt?

It would be a nice feature if this would be possible. But to show something as an example, this is how my Enigma Mod-Launcher works so far regarding the connection: (btw. completely coded with autoit)
1.
Pressing the “start/compatibility-check”-button is doing a
download of a temporary “crc.ini” file from a FTP-Server with the crcs of some server/client-files of the latest version and additional data like the current Server-IP and much more…
The Mod-Launcher is comparing these crcs to verify the clients data and so on…

2.
If all checks have been successful and maybe additional clientside-settings have been made —> pressing start is launching the game with the extention “-s ser.ver.ip.dat.a” to make the GLS-Info redundant when neccessary (due to GLS is down maybe)… The hacks for “preselect www” and “show only compatible builds” are included, so there is only the Enigma V.4 ATG - Server on the list… whatsoever.

Works pretty good so far but I know this has “nothing” to do with the function/hack you´ve asked for.
To skip the “un-neccessary” step selecting the server on the list would be a great thing to have… dunno if there´s a way to do this… maybe adoxa could be helpful… as usual.
But for my taste there should be a way to have the “options” available/keep the main-menu intact… Just pressing the “Multiplayer” button should connect directly with the server specitied in the command-line…
Greetings

J.R.

Autoconnect. Here’s the usage (from [c]Autoconnect.cpp[/c]):

Add "-I[server[:password]]" (internet) or "-L[server[:password]]" (LAN)
to automatically connect to that server.  Server may be either the name
or address; only a prefix is necessary (whatever matches first).  If
password is absent, it will be prompted as usual.

```I should have said it must be capital option letters, but _server_ ignores case. It only works on the initial launch, after that it's business as usual. I s'pose you want autocharacter now, too (which I probably should have done, anyway)?

It seems this was supposed to be part of Freelancer itself, as [c]Freelancer.ini[/c] has a [c][Login][/c] section, with [c]name[/c], [c]pwd[/c] and [c]char[/c] values. Naturally it didn't work, so I had to do it the hard way.

Wow, thanks a 1000 times! Now when I start FL out of Visual Studio it directly connects. This is really helpful!

And yes, if you also could say a number of the character slot to be selected this would make it even more convenient. But it already is a lot better now so if it is too complicated don’t bother with it I would say.

Thanks again

The legend delivers as usual Great job!

Updated. The [c]ecx[/c] problem was a bug (I only tested for a single server and neglected to test non-matching) and I handled [c]wstring[/c] differently, using Freelancer’s import of [c]wstring::assign[/c].

Added automatic character selection, vis [c]char@server[/c]. BTW, in case you haven’t realised, you could do [c]-L@[/c] to automatically select the first server and the first character.

Had another look at how [c][Login] char[/c] is used and that enabled the adding of [c]-A[/c] and [c]-N[/c] to automatically load the autosave or start a new game (i.e. load [c]Restart.fl[/c]).

Oops. :oops: Now it’s updated.