New OFP.info Game server and MP community project

We are very proud and honored to announce that we now have a public OFP Multiplayer dedicated server, powered and in partnership with the great Eclipse Servers hosting company!

The 24 slots server is currently operational with a few CTF missions and a lot of OFrP Coop missions, you can find it in the Gamespy list under the OFP.INFO :: Eclipse-servers.com name, or you can access it directly with this IP adress: 87.117.208.230 (on port 2302).

Some details about the server specifications:

Dell Poweredge SC 1425

Dual 64-bit Intel Xeon 3.0GHz with 2MB L2 Cache

2048Mb DDR2 SDRam

100Mbps Connection, located in Redbus II Meridian Gate Data Centre (London, UK)

About our Eclipse-servers partner:

As you can see it is a very powerful server! The Eclipse Servers company is only using servers with the latest and most quality components, proposing different types of hardware using AMD or Intel processors, with other components that offer the best performance available. You can get more information about them here. If you support our site please visit their web site and consider using their services if you are looking for a top quality game server host!

About the MP community project

So the OFP.info team has some great ambitions about this game server, we would aim to feature a different mod every 2 weeks (or month) and thus allowing online players to do something different than usual clans maps with standard OFP game, or playing FDF mod (which is almost the only Mod really available for online gaming).

So that could be a possibility to make also “week end events”, for example a week end would be dedicated to CSLA mod, to play coop, ctf, deatchmatches, etc, something we never did before, and with the numbers of visitors on the site we hope that it would attract some people…

Another week end would be for Invasion 44, or Battle over Hokkhaido, BAS tonal island, Liberation 41-45 etc… We could use the site poll for it. Imagine a CTF with WWII weapons, that would be funny, and it would be a chance to really enjoy the mods online, do something unusual, and try really different gameplays. Also it could maybe help the modding and mission making community by giving them some new motivation since people will really play their stuff online, and they would get some real feedback on it…

Of course, all this is doable only with a dedicated staff working on it; for testing mods, pointing out addons not working on a dedicated server, finding MP missions for the concerned mods (or converting or even creating them), then test them.

So we are looking for a dedicated crew that would be interested in having an active role on this community project, which will be time consuming! Please post what you think about it here , give ideas or propose help, it is an open group discussion about this project!

I would like on a personal note to really thank Danny from Eclipse-Servers, IzE, Arma.dk website, Quicksilver and the Zeus community!