Crossfire+ For Linux

Its main purpose, besides being fun to play, is to demo the specific versions of the server, archetypes and maps used by crossfire+. All files can be freely downloaded via CVS on the the crossfire+ project page.

It is especially suited for beginners who do not want to experience a very sharp and frustrating learning curve and party players who want to play together more easily.

Here are some key features of "Crossfire plus":

· Death is not permanent. · Death causes no stats depletion and little experience points loss. · Friendly fire causes no damage. · Pet monsters and summoned creatures will not stand in the way of other party members, making it bearable to play with summoning skills in a party. · The item power setting is "2". · The crossfire maps can be viewed interactively at cfmaps.schmorp.de. · We import your character file from other crossfire servers, up to some level, so you can use your character you played with at home, for example. Send your character files to [email protected]. Please don't send artifically improved characters. · Player-killing is, as usual, not tolerated. · If you want to try out a map on a public server, feel free to send it in. · Map and graphics artists are working on improved graphics and new maps and quests. · Due to the filthy ;) code quality, the server restarts automatically after a crash (within one minute). · Emergency saves are disabled. · You can reach the admins via IRC: server irc.schmorp.de (alternatively irc.plan9.de), channel #schmorp, user(s) schmorp or elmex. · You can reach the admins via E-Mail: [email protected]. · We are sometimes running the release, sometimes a CVS (not latest CVS) snapshot with some patches applied. If you encounter problems fixed in a newer snapshot feel free to report it. · Player files and other variable data is backed up nightly to two different locations.

To connect to the server using e.g. cfclient or gcfclient, use this command: cfclient -server crossfire.schmorp.de

or maybe...

cfclient -server crossfire.schmorp.de -mapsize 19x19 -font 9x15bold -cache

or you could use gcfclient or any other crossfire client.

If you use Debian GNU/Linux, you can find the clients in the crossfire-server-x11 and crossfire-server-gtk packages.

What's New in This Release:

· Large parts of the server have been rewritten. · Map loading and saving and most I/O is done asynchronously, eliminating I/O-based lag. · The server now regularly writes maps and players, so data loss on crash is minimized. · Over 40 Perl extensions are available, such as a IRC gateway, transports, playershop, and minesweeper. · The map system is now completely pluggable (for example, the world map is generated on the fly from an overlay). · The file formats have been cleaned up and improved and use a faster parser now. · A persistent database is available for data storage.