Yea, FF is right. with no decent beam, there is no decent ST mod. Even the hack doesn’t really do the required effect justice. I wonder if folks will be happy to fly around shooting photons at each other? A real Trekkie? No way.

Is a Star Trek total conversion something this community could do? I know each TC has it’s own server and site, etc. I wonder if it’s possible to pull together some modders to work on something like this. I just happen to have in my possession a interwebs server with 2 complete processor drawers (4 CPU per drawer). I’ve tested it with vanilla and it works great. It may be useful as a dev server, one as a alpha/beta/live, one as a dev. It has a pro Cisco switch so as long as I provide a decent ISP mbps/upload it can handle a pretty decent load. As a nod to FF, the CPU’s and RAM are a bit dated, but I’ve been checking around and the processors and memory are upgradable.

But back to my original thought, has anyone considered a Star Trek TC mod? I’ve got a bunch of guys that love ST. The “official” MMORPG is cool, but I think the Freelancer engine has very good possibilities.

Any good Star Trek mods, or ship packs that anyone knows about? I’m wondering if I should try to get my local Star Trek club into Freelancer.

Has anyone played it? This game is awesome. It’s a historical combat flight sim. It has an input similar to FL; mouse flight. It’s a free game, but a huge download. There are elements that you can pay $ for, it gives a boost to your combat effectiveness, but you can also earn your credits via missions.

You start with a biplane and work your way up. You can team with other players and escort, and even man gun turrets on B-17’s, etc.

Very cool game if you’re into historical sims.

Lol, I’m actually getting hits on CL: http://orlando.craigslist.org/sys/3925452107.html

Has anyone here built a custom cabinet for a PC system? I’ve been thinking about building a gaming PC with multiple CPUs, motherboards, etc. I’d like to make my own case with two motherboards and CPU’s (RAM, etc.), maybe a monitor/input switch, and run a server on one CPU while using the other to play/mod/web/etc, all in one box.

Cooling would be something to think about. I deal with household appliances in my job and I noticed that refrigerator fans run very quiet and move a lot of air. It could be something that could be mounted on the case to move air between the motherboards to keep the system cool.

Thoughts?

Thanks for the dose of reality. Maybe I’ll put an ad up on Craigslist for an even trade; my historical relic for a modern desktop. Think anyone will bite?

Yea, I figured as much. This thing is a web server, not a app server. It’s configured for Apache and MySQL with redundant storage.

The processors and RAM are upgradable. My question is is it worth it. The bandwidth is there, this thing was born to serve multiple connections. If I had a decent upload ISP (say 5mbps), I can get more recent processors. The cards are upgradable to 1.5mhz each. The server software is designed to distribute the load, I’m just not sure if FL can benefit from that.

By the way, I’ve been running a vanilla server for a few days (net, not LAN) and me and a few friends have had no problems or lag. It’s running Server 2003, a few years beyond Windows 2000.

No aluminum. Solid steel. This thing weighs a ton. As for power, you’d be surprised. Each CPU drawer has dual 400w power supplies. It only runs one at a time, unless more power is needed. The fans (4 per CPU drawer) are all variable speed and only runs what is needed. With the switch, CPU, and storage, it probably pulls about 600 watts. Not a whole lot more than a decent desktop. Of course, that’s only using one CPU drawer and storage drawer. If the whole thing was powered up and loaded I’d be looking at 2800 watts.

Hi guys. I inherited a Compaq ALR 9250 server rack. I was wondering if it something that would be usable as a Freelancer server. It’s got 9 processors, 6 SCSI haqrd drives (2 sets of 3 parallel), a 24 port Cisco switch, and 12 gb of pc100 RAM (4 per cpu drawer). It’s a little old, built in 2001 I think. The processors are Pentium III Xeon 500 mhz. It’s also running MS Server 2003.

I was thinking I could clean her up a little, buy some newer processors or overclock the old ones, and try to run a server off of it. Because it has 3 cpu drawers, I could probably run a server on one or two, and a vent server on the other.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this type of rack and if it’s worth doing (other than the problem of getting someone to actually play on it)?