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Games / Re: Munkurious' OpenTTD Server [1.4] [Dedicated] [ONLINE]

« on: April 18, 2014, 12:57:25 PM »

Ugh,m I loving hate thigns with an unobvious or obscure download button. Where do I download this 'eGRVTS 2.0'? I've got the forum page and all, just no download button.

All mods are automatically downloaded when connecting. That said, pretty much all mods are hosted on the RTB-equivalent BaNaNaS.

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Games / Re: Munkurious' OpenTTD Server [1.4] [Dedicated] [Starting in 1 hour]

« on: April 18, 2014, 12:14:15 PM »

Are piglets allowed and just frowned upon or banned?

Out of curiosity, why would this be a bad thing?

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Help / Re: Dedicated Server - Mission won't run/ Server won't auth.

« on: March 19, 2014, 04:19:48 AM »

Give --backend=curses to wineconsole. My guess is that it defaults to graphical, but falls back to curses when there is no X server available.

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Modification Help / Re: Docker images for hosting on Linux

« on: March 17, 2014, 11:07:56 AM »

So how did you get authentication to work?

As it turns out, Blockland just wants a X server to be running in order to authenticate for whatever godforsaken reason. Wrapping the process in xvfb (basically creates a dummy display) causes it to work fine.

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Modification Help / Docker images for hosting on Linux

« on: March 17, 2014, 10:10:15 AM »

After reading about some of the problems people have (and having some myself too) regarding hosting Blockland on Linux, I decided to make a Docker image for it. A Docker container is basically like a virtual machine, except it completely shares the system resources (no more special partitions or disk images where you have to preallocate space), they share the system kernel (meaning less resource and memory usage), they can be based on other images (which share storage space thanks to copy-on-write), that they have predesignated entry points running a single application instead of the whole system, and that they can be built easily in a scriptable fashion (Dockerfiles). Oh, and there is a pretty huge registry of prebuilt images for all sorts of purposes.

What does this give over hosting the instances normally?
1) Simplicity. Start an instance with a single command.
2) Standard environment. It's easier to give support if we know your instance is exactly the same as everyone else's (or at least that you can easily package up your changes so other people can inspect them on their own systems).
3) Save space. Each instance only consumes the hard-drive space that the settings and add-ons require. Everything else is shared for everybody, though instance A can never under any circumstances impact instance B.
4) Authentication just works!
5) Your containers automatically get cute names like nostalgic_bohr!
6) Resources are fairly-ish shared so one instance can't hog all of the CPU for itself (yes, systemd provides this out of the box too, but that isn't the default on either Ubuntu or Debian yet).

How big is the image?

1.2GB, but note that this only applies once, not for each instance or each server you host, contrary to ordinary hosting. Also, about 200MB of this is shared between all Docker Ubuntu 13.10 images.

How do I run it?
Install Docker (if you haven't already), then run (remember sudo if you're not already root)

Code: [Select]

# docker run -i -t -P teozkr/blockland

This should create and start the Blockland instance, as well as give you access to it's console.

How do I update it?

Code: [Select]

# docker pull teozkr/blockland

What I wanted to know wasn't listed here!
Have a look at the GitHub repo.
It's a trusted repository on the Docker Index, which means that Docker Inc has ran the Dockerfile and produced the VM, not the potentially lying me.

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Help / Re: Dedicated Server - Mission won't run/ Server won't auth.

« on: March 17, 2014, 08:22:10 AM »

I got auth to work without forwarding X or running xterm! The solution was to simply wrap the wine call in xvfb-run.

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Help / Re: Dedicated Server - Mission won't run/ Server won't auth.

« on: March 17, 2014, 07:53:28 AM »

I decided to try building a docker image for this for the sake of being able to build off a common base instead of troubleshooting the same thing on loads of different computers. So far it can build an image with the latest rev of Blockland, which knows how to execute itself, with the console working flawlessly (from what I can tell).
Github
Docker Index

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Drama / Re: RTB Dedicated Hosting Service - Service Closing

« on: February 24, 2014, 09:44:29 AM »

It'd be relatively easy considering some of the discoveries we've made about dedicated Blockland servers recently (specifically, in the BAM off topic group chat).

What a cliffhanger.

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Modification Help / Re: BAM Development

« on: February 23, 2014, 05:05:45 AM »

would be cool if you were to integrate that wip mod into BAM to make it modify all guis (of course, add an option to disable it too)

I don't think it's the job of BAM to be opinionated about how the rest of your GUI should look.

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Modification Help / Re: BAM Development

« on: February 22, 2014, 10:23:55 AM »

In general, unless you want to get involved in BAM development, there is no reason to download it yet. Wait for the alpha.

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General Discussion / Re: New Add-Ons Section?

« on: February 22, 2014, 05:13:00 AM »

if the best we ever had (rtb) cant be trusted to exist forever. then no alternatives will.

And that's why the replacement is being designed with it's own eventual death in mind. :)

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Modification Help / Re: BAM Development

« on: February 21, 2014, 08:55:33 PM »

you could put in an explosion graphic thing from comics

Too close.

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General Discussion / Re: New Add-Ons Section?

« on: February 21, 2014, 05:29:24 PM »

I've only had one problem with the steam version so far and I'm pretty sure it was fixed.

One time I tried to change my name and it wouldn't authenticate again, but it hasn't done that anymore so whatevs.

Here's one. It just doesn't work on linux without running all of steam through WINE.

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General Discussion / Re: New Add-Ons Section?

« on: February 20, 2014, 11:50:02 AM »

It's open-source and I'm sure if people want a part of coding it they can, assuming they're good enough.

This is true. If you have an improvement to contribute, file an issue and send a pull request.

I have to agree I'd prefer a Default solution.  I don't want to replace a third party solution with another third party solution.

Contrary to RTB, BAM is developed openly, so even if we disappear anyone ought to be able to run their own master server and take over development (assuming that people switch to their fork, of course).

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General Discussion / Re: Kaphost Blockland Servers

« on: February 16, 2014, 05:24:54 AM »

hosting service bullstuff is bullstuff, none are long-term reliable and is pathetic. if you want full control over something, buy a vps and host one yourself. you don't need to be an expert to rent out a vps for yourself

Not everyone has the time to manage a VPS, or the skill to set it up securely.