Xtreme Quest Supreme Commander Presented by Intel

Thursday evenings (7-10 PM Eastern), July 26 to Oct 25 at 50 iGames Locations across the United States & Canada

http://www.igames.org/xtremequest/

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Gamers - please feel free to post your questions and comments in this thread. Alternatively you can send an e-mail to: Wayne(at)iGames.org

Good luck and have fun,

Wayne Ferguson
Events Coordinator
 

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Events Coordinator

What's with the connection issues between the centers?

Will anything be done to smooth things out in the coming weeks? (e.g. Direct IP w/ variable port #'s and NAT versus GPGnet stuck on 6112)

Many players of mine were unable to play in several later matches due to connection difficulties.

Please don't bring back Hamachi.

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"if it ain't fun, why do it?"

Wayne, I looked at the prizes and I have to wonder..

why do the top winners in this contest get the Prima Official Game Guide? They won, so the book should rightly go those who lost, don't you think???

I'm just saying....

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"if it ain't fun, why do it?"

Chad (Mwarhead) is going to look into ways to get around the connection issues. It will probably require centers to do a little bit of advanced networking with his guidance.

Hamachi is not currently being considered. 

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As for the prizes - awarding the goods to the top players is what we usually do. However, now that you mention it... perhaps in the future we should award game guides to others. That would make sense.
 

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Events Coordinator

You save money on cheap internet and no extra IP's, and lose money because they can't host games online.

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Martin "MrFurious" Kruse
Xtreme Gaming Cybercafe
www.goxgaming.com

IGames Community Member Since 2003

Yes that was a bit of a problem last night, at ECE all i had to do was restart the computer after the game fully patched, and i was able to play again.

I hate to say it but the centers that are continuing to have problems need to get a better router or drop out. My center had 4 canceled matches last week due to connection issues that where not our own.

A suggestion I would make if everyone has a network expert in their center (I do), is to set up a VPN between centers then we could play over LAN. A program called Hamachi could also be used. We have gotten great results using that program for anything but steam.

If your center is having networking trouble you can contact me and I will refer you to my network person, his rates are reasonable and he can do many things remotely.

more info on us...

Galaxy Games, Buford, GA

T1 internet interfaced to Cisco 1700

Linux Router using Shorewall, Dan's Guardian, Squid, apache, etc. 

kooljay2:

Wayne, I looked at the prizes and I have to wonder..

why do the top winners in this contest get the Prima Official Game Guide? They won, so the book should rightly go those who lost, don't you think???

I'm just saying....

LOL

I don't know about Hamachi, but I have a Linksys RV042 router with the proper ports opened. The advantage of the RV042 (other than the fact that it does NOT have wireless LOL) is that it allows forwarding operations to occur to a range of PC's. For example, a 10 box setup, hardcoded IP on each PC, assign a firewall rule/port forward range [eg 192.168.0.101-192.168.0.110] to each open port. This also allows ports remaining closed on specific machines not intended for gaming (servers, cafe software server, network devices).

 

benjamin333:

I hate to say it but the centers that are continuing to have problems need to get a better router or drop out. My center had 4 canceled matches last week due to connection issues that where not our own.

A suggestion I would make if everyone has a network expert in their center (I do), is to set up a VPN between centers then we could play over LAN. A program called Hamachi could also be used. We have gotten great results using that program for anything but steam.

If your center is having networking trouble you can contact me and I will refer you to my network person, his rates are reasonable and he can do many things remotely.

more info on us...

Galaxy Games, Buford, GA

T1 internet interfaced to Cisco 1700

Linux Router using Shorewall, Dan's Guardian, Squid, apache, etc. 

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Good in theory, lousy in practice - it implies that I'm expendable. I am many things. I am bright, personable, charismatic, and not a bad dancer, but expendable? No.

Lead Technical Operations
Redhammer's G & C

I haven't commented on this discussion yet,

but this has completly to do with the NAT guide I have written to help you all out. If you didn't get it email wayne@igames.org and he will send you a copy.

 Anyways during the ladder I have both centers host for a reason. The reason is that if one center has the ports wrong or closed and the other doesn't, when the host that is open correctly hosts then the other team can join.

 If after the point where both centers have tried hosting and restarting their pcs it doesn't work then 90% or more of the time this means that both centers are configured incorrectly. I'm sorry to put it that way, but it's simple fact.

 It all has to do with the computer being completly open, moderate, or strict.

Open can host all games (Centers like GameCafe for example), Moderate can only connect to centers with open or moderate connections (a great deal of centers maybe here), and Strict or closed can't connect to anyone but open.

 I wish the game had an ingame testing tool like the XBOX 360 does. If you want to see what I mean hook up an XBOX 360 to your network and try getting it an open rating through the network troubleshooter. It is somewhat difficult to do, and with out multiple external ips you can only get open on 1 console.

Thus you can only host 100%  of the time if you have open and you need more then one external ip if you want more then one computer able to host all matches. There are some other methods as well, but this one works all the time and isn't that hard to setup/


 

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Chad "Mwarhead" Rippey
Events Admin - iGames.org
Manager - Gigabits LAN Center

Can anyone explain how the ranking system works?

What happens when someone plays more then one game in a night?

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Twisted Zen
www.twistedzengames.com
Sachse, TX

48simple:

Can anyone explain how the ranking system works?

What happens when someone plays more then one game in a night?

The ranking system is explained at: http://igames.org/laddersites/MiniAboutView.asp?MiniID=155&AssetID=1074

Essentially - Every player has 'xp' or 'points'. The winner earns a portion of the loser's points, and the loser gets 5 points by default just for playing.

The amount of points that applies is calculated after every match, it is just not updated on the site until the next day.

Players can play as many matches as they want during the Ladder hours (7-10 PM Eastern Time) 

 

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Events Coordinator

In the past I had a router that would allow you to forward ports to any computer without rebooting the router.  It was as easy as selecting the game from a drop down list and then the ip of the computer you wanted to forward the ports to.  My new router requires a reboot and you must know the proper ports.  However I have contacted the router manufacture and they are actually looking into a solution.  I have no idea if they will have any success but I am keeping my fingers crossed.  This same company modified their firmware to support Steam on multi wan connections before Steam changed it to support multi wan, so you never know. 

How come it takes about 3 days to get the next set of rankings finally up?

You guys are always saying that the standings will be entered within a day, but its always about 3 days that they change.

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