> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Narcis wrote: >> 1.) i am trying to find out how observer mode works. Connecting to >> eg. pickled at 2593 is apparently not enough. I tried JTrek too. but >> am in the dark what a client should do to act as observer > > Observer mode is very like playing mode. Like in: i get killed? i had presumed to be invisible to other players or at least invincible :) but it seems i have to join a team and simply play..? >> 2.) what would be good metaservers to probe? metaserver.netrek.org ? >> what else? and would they list the same servers or different ones? > > Should probe all of them, and merge the result. Use UDP for the > probe. Merging, no problem, UDP need to check but question remains: which server to probe? i only know of metaserver.netrek.org. regards C