Recently I've been doing some "simple" c++ coding again, after doing a lot of ASM work. I decided to update some stuff relating the messaging system. Be sure to have a recent version of scripts.dll installed client side (>2.6 iirc), then you will not see the "Host: " prefix before each message, and the messages will be colored according to the message type (error, success, etc). Also the internal workings are much improved so developement will be faster and easier.

I added logging for moderator and user commands which could be abused. Now it is easy to see when a user abuses something, or even if a moderator would, which I hope will never happen. It's good to have some logging to keep track of what happens though. Another fix is done to the vehicle ownership, which caused a crash in some rare situations.

I fixed a bug to the !smp command to make it work in LAN/GSA mode too, and fixed a bug to the !tc command. I have also removed the (never even used) vban and cvban commands.

Today's build should be applied to the servers the next time they restart.

We have removed Dave4989 from the moderator list since he appearently is too busy with his own community. We're sorry we had to do it this way, but we never see him on irc anymore, while he was there like always.
He has been and good mod though, and I hope that he will continiue to visit the site and our forums.

First of all, we should have posted this earlier, sorry for that.

BHS and BI have agreed on some kind of partnership. Basically both will still exist, but the BlackIntel members will also be part of BHS. We will be sharing knowledge and code for example, and will not fix the same bugs/do the same stuff, which would be useless. ;)
BlackIntel will still exist as server hosting and serverside modding team, but most fixes and improvements will probably be released though BHS, because there will be a greater audience, so more people would benefit.
See also the Announcing: Blackhand Studios / BlackIntel Partnership Agreement topic on renforums.

We have also added a new page with the server rules and moderator guidelines.

We are also really close to start using the next version of our scripts.dll, it will have some nice improvements to the command replies, and has several design limitations solved. It will be updated the next time the server restarts, which we preferably do when it's empty.
Then also will our new moderators have their ingame moderator status. I have finally made the moderators configurable, so they can be changed without having to rebuild the scripts.dll and restart the server. ;)

Today I updated the mod info and mod future page to better reflect our plans for the future and the things that we currently have on our server.

You can find these pages here:
Mod info
Mod future

We're currently experiencing some problems with our forum, and we are low on diskspace so in oder to fix it we needed to temporarily remove the movies. As soon everything is fixed we will update this newspost.

Update:
We moved to a new host as you can see, and hope this will atleast solve the frequency of our site being not reachable. We've fixed the forums too so you can post again ;)

Last week eagleyeu, eaglewar0 and sayownded joined the team as moderators. Their new status will be updated in the next scripts.dll update, which might have some other nice things in it, which need some more testing.
I which them good luck and a lot of fun while moderating our servers :).

We are currently updating some pages on the website, the mod info and mod future were seriously outdated, but should be updated now. ;)

We've been doing some research on how to prevent/block/detect cheating, so there are not that many new features being worked on, but we're doing some interesting stuff nonetheless. ;)

We have released a new version of the wall lag fix. Previously the fix needed both a fixed client and a fixed server, and was incompatible with all other combinations. We have however found a way that uses a bit extra bandwidth but is compatible with all clients and servers. For the fix to work you still have to be in a patched server. As this fix is still beta, the server code has not yet been released. Currently, only BlackIntel servers are running the fix (a0000000a, b and c) together with some of our test servers. Try the fix and join our server to test it, report. If something starts acting weird, please report it in a comment, on the forums, renforums or contact me. Thanks :)

It is now out the beta phase and the server is available for download too!

Wall lag fix topic on renforums.com
BlackIntel download page

We made a fix so that you wont have arti's pointing the other way when in reality they are firing at you. This is a clientside only fix so you won't need to have a server that will support it.
Just download, unzip, and play :)

You can download the files here:
The fix.
And a small preview movie.

Enjoy!

Due to a little error on the download page a few download links were invalid, it should be fixed now. :)

We've updated Brenbot to 1.43 which made us reset the recommendations, so no need to worry ;) just get them back up quickly. It has serveral new features but most of all it is supposed to be more stable and less mem leaking.

We also changed the maprotation to include C&C_BunkersTS.mix As we find it is a very very fine fanmap made by aircraftkiller.

If haven't got Core Patch 2 download it here