AIRWAR CHAT

I've run a game server for 4 years, and in my experience 95% of players game lag is caused by the following 3 things.

1. Open programs in the background (webpages with flash youtube videos or animated gifs on them are especially bad), including tons of little tray apps/icons.. esp Skype, Pidgin, Yahoo Mesenger, AIM - close them all!
2. Running processor and network intensive torrents / limewire / azureus / etc in the background. Note, many of these programs install themselves to run at startup as tray bar apps
3. Game graphics set too high, esp. antialiasing, dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows -which when you hit fog, slows your computer to a crawl - turn them off or set them to a low setting.

Before you start gaming, close all your other crap you have running, and run only the game. Set its process priority at Above Normal or High (check out Process Lasso to? do it automatically). I use a separate computer just for gaming, where I leave my favorite game open, and a separate computer for everything else (webbrowsing, etc). A gaming router is not going to fix your stupidity of having background apps open while you game.

As for anti-aliasing... do you need it? No. Anti-aliasing is only useful for taking screen snapshots in game (say, to use on a website), or if you have a very crappy monitor with low resolution (1024x800 or less). In just about all cases, a higher resolution graphic setting with no anti-aliasing is superior. I run my games at 1600x1200. Higher resolution is even better, if your graphics card can push it. At higher resolutions, any jaggies fade away... and really, while you're playing the game, you're almost always in motion and they are going to blur away anyway. Anti-aliasing is a big hit on performance.

Another thing you can do, if you are using an nVidia graphics card, is go into the Nvida traybar control panel and into the game settings for your game (BF2), and set rendering to "Best Performance" instead of the default "Balanced" or "High Quality". Best performance will render a whole lot faster with some loss of quality, but you won't notice at all. Something like High Quality, you would only use in an app like Google Earth.

A SHUT DOWN BF2142 Demo for PC August, 2011 permanently, forever. I ported AIRWAR over to running a BF2 Demo server. I also ported AIRWAR to BF2142 full game but am not currently running a server for it.

HELP, I'VE BEEN KICKED!

Follow this link to http://kicked.air-war.org to read a simplified explanation about why you got or are getting kicked.

In another Choppergirl first, I've implemented a new rating system of my own, the Bogo-Violence Rating or 'BV', which is displayed at the end of the game. The Bogo-Violence Rating is in the general spirit of the BogoMips which is used in Linux land to benchmark CPU performance. A Bogo-Violence Rating for the game is displayed at the end of the game, and on the scoreboard, so that people can get a general idea how violent the last game was. Think of it as if it were a 'game thermometer'.

Choppergirl's BV Bogo-Violence Game Violence Rating (BV) Chart of the Level of Game Violence:

0 : "Non-existant"
1 : "Warm"
2 : "Toasty"
3 : "Hot"
4 : "Excellent"
5 : "Superb"
6 : "Violent"
7 : "Ultra Violent"
8 : "Brutal"
9 : "Hellish"
10 : "Nightmare"

Note that this rating of the amount of violence in a game is rather arbitrary and non-scientific and in fact, rather bogus (hence the name), and may not at all reflect the amount of violence that was actually in the game. However, hopefully it will be more often than not at least somewhere near to a general estimation, and give you some general indication of how violent a game was.

New Server, note lack of PCI cards and clean wide open space for passive air flow cooling:


New poster, also from Steven who works at Walmart, I don't play Killzone, but its definatly a Killzone below it:


This is where I kill you assholes at, over and over and over:


Picture of baker's racks, back when old Airwar Game Server was still on the rack:

Here forever immortalized are the KNIGHTS OF AIRWAR who guard the survival of AIRWAR
Amongst them you will find those who are truely AIRWAR HARDCORE

They put their money on the line to maintain an arena for them to battle to the most violent extreme.
To all the fallen warriors, in time you are forgotten, but the Honour of the Knights remain here engraved for all eternity.
RESPECT

Date	Amount U.S.	Player Name
07/14/2011	$11.64	BizzBattleBr
05/31/2011	$100.00	NewWatcher / Basttard
12/10/2010	VPS servers	madz dissolvanizerx
10/06/2010	1024K RAM	Rule 42
09/21/2010	$20.00	Big_Ol'_Dookie_Rider
09/15/2010	$50.00	Badnoodle
09/15/2010	$50.00	AK-1200
04/11/2010	$20.00	Big_Ol'_Dookie_Rider
03/08/2010	$10.00	qqbun
03/04/2010	$5.00	UB-001
02/15/2010	$66.30	Anonymous RO
02/12/2010	$20.00	Jamie W.
02/09/2010	$10.00	UB-001
01/01/2010	VPS server	nutta1
12/22/2009	$15.00	UB-001
12/15/2009	$5.00	UB-001
12/14/2009	$2.00	Fire$torm
12/11/2009	$5.00	Santani6
12/07/2009	$5.00	whofuqincares
11/25/2009	$15.00	UB-001
10/25/2009	$5.00	Santani6
10/24/2009	$10.00	qqbun
10/16/2009	$22.22	ShotInTheButt
10/06/2009	$10.00	UB-001
09/26/2009	$20.00	Big_Ol'_Dookie_Rider
09/16/2009	VPS servers	madz dissolvanizerx
09/15/2009	$10.00	UB-001
09/07/2009	$30.00	king-kong-fuzi
09/04/2009	$5.00	Santani6
08/00/2009	VPS servers	nutta1
07/03/2009	$20.00	Big_Ol'_Dookie_Rider
06/06/2009	$5.00	Santani6
05/11/2009	$40.00	Rayzor54
03/30/2009	VPS servers	madz dissolvanizerx
03/25/2009	$100.00	alt+del (zerofunction)
02/21/2009	$60.00	Joe W.
12/20/2008	$30.00	Makebelieve
11/01/2008	$12.30	Warrior77
10/04/2008	$25.00	badnoodle
09/13/2008	$5.00	Chaim B. (World of Warcraft Player)
03/01/2008	$200.00+?	CHOPPERGIRL (plus 1500+ Hours modding work)

All funds go to pay the monthly rental bill on the game server, nothing else, so we can keep playing.
Server rental cost on average about $1 per slot per month, and it adds up real quick. :-(
(36p server = $36/month x 12 months = $432 a year. Yeah, would you pay that to run a server?)


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HOW TO SWEEP THE SCOREBOARD

To get any sweep, you MUST get the high scores in ALL 3 LAST GAME HIGH SCORES:

last game top pilot, last game top score, AND last game top kills. Without all 3 of theses, its not a sweep at all.

That alone, is called a 3x SWEEP (Three of a Kind). And its pretty good. But you can get even higher...

If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 1 top dog high score (even from a previous game), that's a 4x SWEEP!
(Four of a Kind)

If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 2 top dog high scores (even from a previous game), that's a 5x SWEEP!!
(Full House)

If you have all 3 last game high scores, AND have 3 top dog high scores (even from a previous game), that's a 6x SWEEP!!!
(Straight Flush) If you get a Straight Flush, and the server hasn't just rebooted, you're pretty bad ass...

If you get ANY sweep... 3x, 4x, 5x, or 6x... you capture the 7th line of the Scoreboard with your name on it. So a Straight Flush 6x SWEEP gets your name on all 7 lines of the Scoreboard! And you have swept the scoreboard! Quit, walk away, and gloat!

So you can talk all the idiot smack talk all you want, but when it comes to battle, are you the ultimate cleaning lady like CHOPPERGIRL, are you a 6x Sweeper?

IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW

I have set up some dedicated knife fight areas on both my servers, consult the maps below for their locations:

On BF2142, the knife only area is inside the circle of the core flag/silo capture area in the center of the map



In BF2, the knife only area is inside the tiled area of the pool beneath the crane in the center of the map

If someone is inside these areas, you are only allowed to kill them with a knife. If you kill them with any weapon other than a knife, 20 points will be substracted from your score. This might put you below -12 and get you kicked off the server depending on your score, so beware. Only kill other players using a knife in these areas. Do not shoot rockets or drop bombs or artillery strikes into these areas, you may kill someone and get punished.

WHAT COUNTRY IS ...?

One of the pioneering mods I made was to add a country code to everyone's nickname, so players could see what country other players were connecting from and guess what language they spoke. This facilitates same language players finding and communicating with each other. This is done automatically on my server.

My country codes caught on so well that people started recreating their nickname with their country code attached, so their country code would be seen on other servers as well (I don't recommend this).

If you see a country code you are curious about and can't guess where it is, you can look it up here: Alpha-3 Codes.