$1500 to design Procon2s UI
We’ve posted up a project on design crowd with a prize of $1,500 to design Procon 2′s UI. See http://www.phogue.net/forumvb/showthread.php?3719-Competition-Info or http://jobs.designcrowd.com.au/job.aspx?id=29497 for more information!
Metabans for BF3!
.. and what, 10 days on? i3lack now has Metabans live on another server and functional with BF3.
The Plugin: http://www.phogue.net/forumvb/showthread.php?2043-Metabans-BF3-BC2-MOH
The Site: http://metabans.com
Signup. Download. Setup. Share.
Metabans Project is moving/moved
The entire metabans project is migrating to another server with new management. i3lack is taking over and the site should be running on his box now, or the DNS propagating.
No data (it was corrupt anyway) has been transferred over to the new box. http://metabans.com/ is no longer run by me but I will be following the project closely. Hopefully it’s now being run by some one with some more time to actually implement some of the features that have been requested.
Description and Demo of in-game commands for Procon 2
Just posted this up on my works blog. Stop past, have a play and leave a comment please 
With Siri hitting the office of my Apple enthusiast peers my attention was again thrown at Natural Language Processing (NLP). This article isn’t explaining how Siri in particular works, but instead how to make something close on a shoe string budget. I originally wrote this in December of 2010 for Procon 2, an unreleased remote console tool for administering Game Servers and sequel to Procon, that I continue to work on today as a hobby.
Read more at http://labs.kojo.com.au/the-poor-mans-siri/
Procon for BF3 available for download now!
Procon 1.1 is now downloadable on phogue.net!
Phogue is returning from DICE in Stockholm/Sweden where he worked together with Mikael Kalms on the BF3 server rcon interface to the last minute. They managed to implement a new maplist that will let you mix game modes leaving the known restrictions from Bad Company 2 behind. Even though they did their very best Procon’s full functionality will not be available from day one – for some features (e.g. battle map, plugins, reserved slots…) the BF3 server rcon interface will have to be further modified and expanded – DICE and of course the Procon team will continue to work hard on this in the following weeks.
Download now:
Please also check this forum post for more information.
iOS Procon for BF3 will probably be released in about a week!
After some last tests that need to be performed in the next 3-4 days it will enter the Apple App Review process which will hopefully only take a couple of days before the App will actually be available for download on the App Store.
Stay tuned..
Procon Goes to Sweden!
In order to make sure admin tools are properly supported for the release of BF3, DICE have flown Phogue from his home in Aussie Land, all the way to cold chilly Sweden.
Over the next 2 weeks, while in Sweden he will be meeting and working with the DICE team, in order to move the RCON interface along to a usable state for the launch of BF3.
Phogue and the rest of the Procon team would like to put a special thanks out to Mikael Kalms for all of his efforts working with third party developers for all of DICE’s products.
Procon for BF3: Development in progress
The beta has begun!
Two days ago DICE and i3D.net set us up with a BF3 beta test server with full rcon access. After initial connection problems everything is up and running now. Testing Procon and iOS Procon with the BF3 server have begun and mostly everything is looking pretty good. Some parts of the remote access interface like the map sequencer remain deliberately locked at the moment – probably to keep us from using Procon to check out the “Caspian Border”.
A minor issue is that the BF3 rcon protocol still seems to have some bugs/glitches which result in some player status updates, the ingame-chat and the battle map not working correctly at the moment. According to DICE the next server software update which hopefully fixes some of the known problems will be available this weekend.
Stay tuned for more updates on the blog …
SITREP!
We’re getting a lot of questions, especially BF3 related concerns. I thought I should post up and explain the projects direction, goals and timelines. Hopefully this entry will answer some of your questions. If you notice these question elsewhere then link em to this post for some answers.
Bee-Eff-Free is *only* 1 month away!!!!
We’re still waiting for the beta to be released, dice/i3D to give us access to a server as well as (and most importantly) a stable documented rcon protocol to work from. Implementation of Bf3, given a highly similar protocol to BFBC2/MoH:2010 is expected to take a day with a further day of bug fixing and config generating. Map calibration for the battlemap is expected to occur when we have access to all of the maps.
There really isn’t a major hurry and no one is responsible for any delay, chillax. You’ll get BF3 support asap
Version/Licenses/Game support.. Procon 2?
Here’s a graph of today, the day of the BF3 release and some time next year. Note that everything is okay on these dates
Nothing’s actually happening though is it?
Today I filed the papers to incorporate my own company. This company will be selling licenses to those that charge you for hosting our software. Aaron “feeblemedic” our officially unofficial lawyer has been getting whipped by Mark “Ike Ikerson Rodriguez”, our resident slave driving physicist. Aaron’s been crafting an awesome license for us to use that is so insanely close to being done we’re wondering if Ike is being lazy.
Ike’s also been in contact with Procon hosts that are seemingly coming out of the woodwork. I know a lot of you use this software, but you’d be surprised how many people have this software hosted. I am, what the hell have I been doing for the past year and half?
What’s Imisnew2 doing?
He’s in Japan. He’s either bludging or he’s studying abroad for a year. I think he’s just bludging though.
bludge [bl?d?] Austral and NZinformal
vb1.(when intr, often foll by on) to scrounge from (someone)2.(intr) to evade work3.(intr)Archaic to act as a pimpna very easy task; undemanding employment
What’s Phogue doing?
Done with uni. Bored every second of it. Now I’m working at Kojo. I do stuff like this with my time now. I’ve got about 10 different projects on the go. Procon, Metabans (kinda.. its boring now), work stuff, android stuff and even facial recognition stuff for marine life.. no shit.
What about the… “other people”?
Morpheus is still admining, Phil’s still being German and Decker’s plotting world domination with his awesome work on the next iteration/version/release (he’ll post up here soon about this confusion). Zaeed donned the Admin hat here as well in the past couple of months. I don’t have the time to do stuff like that and he sets a far better company image than I ever could.
Ike’s also getting shafted on credit for some side projects of mine. I’m not even going to tell you here what the projects were as well. I’ve purposefully left his name out on a few things so I alone get the glory of knowing 1′st year remedial physics
For the most part though, the “nothing immediately urgent is happening” alarms are going off. Everything is happening in the timeline I wanted and I’m in no hurry. We have some deadlines (25′th October) that we’ll meet, but other than that we’re pretty much twiddling our thumbs till next month. It’s going to be chaotic and awesome
Announcement: Procon to support Battlefield 3!
Procon is getting ready for BF3!!!
Battlefield 3 support will be implemented into Procon Frostbite. Also a new and improved version of iOS Procon will be released for Battlefield 3. We are already in contact with DICE and other 3rd party developers and hope to have early working versions ready during the beta.
More details and previews will be posted on the blog as they occur! Stay tuned!
Procon License Changes
I rarely post on this blog anymore, mostly because there have been very few updates to the core of Procon due to time constraints. In the next couple of months we’ll be making some license changes to future versions of Procon. We’re reaching out for lawyers to help the project so if you know anyone willing to work pro bono please link them here.
This project has now profited me two weeks work as a burger flipper at McDonalds here in Australia. As the intention was never to make money, this would leave me overjoyed at unforeseen success of Procon. I originally wrote Procon in three weeks over my mid-semester break of University. It was, and still is, mad scientist code that is paying for no design work at all 
Procon was released under the GNU GPL like all of my work. I expected a user-base of 100 or so people maybe and never thought anyone would really benefit from it. Since then company’s have spring up hosting the software, the user-base is in the tens of thousands (still.. scary eh?) and hosting is surprisingly still on the increase at some places. We’re programming Procon 2 in our free time, which since leaving University is limited nowadays and slower work than Procon 1. I hope to support some version of Procon long into the future.
The above sounds like this is going to be a rant. Leave the guff, gimme the basic facts!
What license changes?
Procon will remain open source, but version 1.1 and onwards will require payment from commercial endeavors that host Procon for others.
Specifics and pricing will be released at a later date.
I have to pay?
If you make money from Procon, yes. If not then you can continue using it like you are now.
What if I just host 1.0?
Then there is no requirement for you to support Procon, the developers or their starving children. You may continue hosting Procon 1.0.0.2 and below without paying royalties to Procon, just like now. Enjoy
Can you do this?
It’s this or project death.
I’m a user, should I donate moar?
Yes!.. No.. No.. No that’s not what this is about. We’re looking at mostly cutting in on those that are profiting from Procon right now. Unless you’re loaded with cash and laughing at the little people, please don’t put yourself out 
LOL that’s fine I’ll just go use Generic Rcon Project Name
No man, you’re missing the point :p We love you, we just don’t love being left out in the cold. I hope like hell that I can draft this license and provide it to other rcon projects like B3 for free. (note: I don’t speak for them, this is just the example and Courgette is pretty cool so I don’t think they would mind)
Hopefully we can break the cycle of middlemen benefiting from our projects and the expectation that this is normal/acceptable. Yes it’s only rcon software, but a lot more hours gets invested into projects like these than the average user could fathom.
You used to be cool man, but you got greedy..
A single host is earning upwards of [removed: several-several-several-several thousand AUD] a month on Procon. There are more hosts out there, some possibly with more but most likely less. I’m earning about ~$50-70 after expenses (see right hand column). I think I’m better off than most similar projects out there, but I still have to buy the cheaper beer 
I’m looking at this project getting cut, not getting rich.
I’m not looking for sponsorship either. Previous experience has shown me that this benefits only one of the parties, whether its their intention or not.
What sparked this?
This actual idea is from one of the procon hosts very recently while they were looking to contribute back to the project. Ike mobilized the idea and started researching everything for me. Mostly blame Ike if you’re going to be a little out of pocket by this
My “What about me/us?” moment actually came from seeing B3′s struggle to find financial support or sponsorship to add Homefront support to their software. An awesome project halted by $150 worth of games? Piss on that. They shouldn’t have to think about it while others make money from their software.
Our projects that benefit other commercial businesses should be concerned with how to spend our budget, not on simply having a budget.
Why don’t you host it yourself? I’d sign up with you!
Thanks! But I don’t have the time to setup a business and work on the software that would be the foundation of that business. One would suffer greatly, and one already is (see lack of updates)
I’m a hater. I’m going to hate.
Most of what I do is for the benefit of others. I don’t think of myself as a nice person, but I always do nice things.
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