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Joel Johnson

AT 8:56 AM
Tuesday January 20, 2009

PC

planetside

Blog War! Watch this space for Planetside details; Updated

planetside_war_crop.jpgKeys have been provisioned for the Planetside war and shots started going off last night. Sadly, I'm having some trouble getting it running properly on Vista, but I think I've got it licked. A few of you have asked how we're going to organize, while a few more of you have offered to help organize and get us on Ventrillo or Teamspeak.

I can't drop out to handle this during the day, but you'll have my full attention this evening and we'll get something figured out after, say, 6PM Eastern. Right here.

Update: I'm going to open up the Campfire room for guest access so we can coordinate. Just click the link to chat: Come on in. As for voice chat, I think I'll just rent a Ventrilo server this month. (InstantVentrilo.com looks easy enough.)

I'm going to start playing in about 45 minutes, so join me in Campfire if you'd like to figure out details! I got my client running earlier but I have no idea what I'm doing at all.

Here's how I got it working in Vista: Go into the directory and change the compatibility mode on the executable itself to Windows 95 or Windows 2000 compatibility mode, then Run as Administrator. Worked for me!

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9 Comments

pjamestx

#1 – 9:22 AM January 20, 2009

Yeah, in case others are trying to run this in Vista, there's a message about it in the offworldpsw google group. All I ended up doing was right clicking on the shortcut on my desktop and putting it into windows 95 compatibility mode.

Hope to see everyone there tonight!

Zarei

#2 – 11:12 AM January 20, 2009

Windows 95 compatibility didn't work for me but windows 2000 did. Also had to set as run as administrator.

incidentalist

#3 – 12:06 PM January 20, 2009

How about meeting in-game tonight, at 7pm Eastern, at the HART A building on the Vanu Sanctuary continent?

shawnaroo

#4 – 12:11 PM January 20, 2009

7pm eastern is a little bit early for those of us further out west. I won't even be home from work then. Maybe have at least a few people meet there every hour throughout the evening, at least for a couple days until we get our bearings?

Andrew Simone

#5 – 2:25 PM January 20, 2009

We also have a 50 person teamspeak server:

Label: Offworld Planetside
Address: chicago01.dallasxtreme.com:8769
It's a "clan server," if that makes any difference and there is no password so login anonymously.

Pardon any superfluous/useless info here, I had never set one of these up until today.

Brian "DoctaBu" Moore

#6 – 10:46 PM January 20, 2009

Hey! If we weren't in time for a key ( :( ), can we pay for it for a month and join in or something?

DanielZKlein

#7 – 2:59 AM January 21, 2009

So if I didn't get a key by now that means I didn't get in? Pity! I thought I'd sent my mail quite soon after the original post went live.

shawnaroo

#8 – 5:00 AM January 21, 2009

We're playing on a public server with a bunch of random subscribers, so you could certainly pay to sign up and then run around with all the offworld people. Your points probably won't count towards the blog war totals, but nobody will turn you away.

incidentalist

#9 – 4:17 PM January 26, 2009

The RockPaperShotgun people got a platoon of 30 people together: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/26/the-planetside-war-weekend-warriors/
Surely we can top that? Send a /tell ingame to Dently or Bodhii for an invitation to the Boingboing Offworld outfit and the current squad.

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