Jane's Fleet Command

Newbie Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 1

Greetings all. My name is Mike D. and Iâ€™m the Team Coordinator for NavalWarfare Simulations Naval Warfare Project. For those that arenâ€™t familiar with NWP it is a mod we've maintained over the last 5 years for Janeâ€™s Fleet Command. A common complaint from our players is the lack of net play capability since Janeâ€™s shuttered their site. I see that Hyperlobby is supposed to be able to support Fleet Command yet there is no information on it nor does FC show up in HL. I figured out the .ini settings and enabled FC, but beyond that the question is does it really work. Also how do you add command line switches to the FC startup. Our players would probably be tickled to death if we could get HL to work with FC. We have about 3500+ players out there using NWP and more all the time.

Another question is what does it take to get the HL guys to add a new game? NWS is writing new games all the time and some are capable of net play. Love to have them added.

You can either contact me directly at mjdobbins@austin.rr.com or post on this forum with the details.

Mike Dobbins
NWS Team
www.navalwarfare.org

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:16 pm

Hello Mike

FC is supported by the HL but it was never tested by me or any other HL players. The FC room is just only hidden and can be enabled by the hlpro.ini tweaks ....

the FC command line switches hl use is:
For host - fleet command.exe /h tcp /n<player callsign>
For client - fleet command.exe /j tcp <IP address> /n<player callsign>

Those settings was hardopied from JCN java applet, and never tested by me or anyone (as i know)

If anyone want to include a game in to HL, they must send me the game (original gamebox) and a donation. With this the game should get support for future updates. If i not get it, ill include the game only if i wil feel that it will be usefull (like IL2 series), and will reserve my own opinions to remove it (as LOMAC and WOW soon).

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:35 pm

Hey, it's Fleet Command! Smile

Jiri, if you would like a boxed copy of FC we would be happy to send you one (I'll have to look around for it though... we must have one here somewhere Smile

)

Let me know,

Newbie Joined: Mar 25, 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Canada

Hi there, Sarge here (known as vfasarge on the NWP-FC forum).
I'm a long-time fan of FC. It's got to be my favoirte stratagy game, bar none (real-time or otherwise, and belive me I've played my share of them).
I'm one of the two other guys who will playing with Mike in our first Hyperlobby-NWP test.

Normaly I wouldn't jump in like this, but I've got a question for Jamie:

I see Sonalysis in your sig.
Are you, by any chance, a former programer for Sonalysis? That is, are you familiar with the source code that underlies Fleet Command?
There's a number of unpatched bugs, but the one we'd really like to get fixed is the insidious crash-to-desktop bug. We're up against a brick wall without the source code or at least someone who might know a workaround. Can we ask you a really big favor (even though we don't know you at all)? Can you help us somehow in resoving the CTD bug? It would really make our day/month/year.

Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:30 pm

Thanks Jamie ! But the FC is not my favorite game genre Sad

Newbie Joined: Mar 25, 2006 Posts: 1

That site doesnt work for me for some reason.

I have FC havnt played in a while, but wouldnt mind hopin in for a few.

Agnew

Newbie Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 1

Well count me in the game!!!! If its dead than tell me so i could uninstall Hyper Lobby...