X3RPM - Remote Property Management - v0.7 - New Download Link

[nuclear_eclipse]

I present to you the ultimate in remote management capabilities:

X3RPM now allows you to remotely monitor and manage your empire while you are away from your computer. Check your game's status from work, school, or anywhere with an Internet connection, and send commands, modify settings, or tweak your ships and stations without even being at home!

This latest version offers you the ability to view detailed statistics about your empire, see a propety listing with all of your stations and ships, view a version of the galaxy map and interactively select sectors and see what's in them, all from the comfort of your favorite web browser.

However, this is still a PRERELEASE version, and not all of the planned features are implemented yet. Read more about this in the readme file. Also of note is that with the current implementation, you MAY receive 'RPM Host Offline' results even though the RPM Host is indeed running. The cause of this can be ship moving out of sector without updates from the RPM Host, delays in script or code execution, log files not being cleaned up properly, etc. These will be top-priority fixes for the final release version, but for now, can simply be ignored by returning to the property or universe pages and continuing from there so that caches refresh and such.

*Version Note* - X3RPM is now released in three different flavors:

X3RPM Full Version (6.4 MB) - This release includes every file necessary to run X3RPM without any major tweaking or management from the user. Simply extract files to the proper directories and install the X3RPM service (See the Readme) and you should be ready to go.

X3RPM Update Version (83 kB) - This release only includes files updated since the previous version of X3RPM. If you have a working installation of the last version (currently v0.2), you can safely install this over top the old version, restart the X3RPM service, restart the X3RPM Host ingame, and you should be set to go.

X3RPM Admin Version (63 kB) - Designed for those who already have running webservers (Apache, IIS, etc). Extract the script and t files into X3 and the htdocs files into the appropriate directory of the webserver, and everything should work. *NOTE* - You MUST be using PHP version 5.0.5 or newer, or else X3RPM *WILL NOT* function properly.

Download (Full Version Only):
http://leetcode.net/files/x3rpm-0.7-full.rar

README:

[Galaxy613]

Can this be true? With this we might be able to make XMail! Which will basicly work like email... somehow... it'll just send a message to the person you type in... so crazy it might just work!

HOLY CRAP! Just checked out your site thing, this is damned sweet! Great work!!

[scoochy]

Pretty sweet. And being able to command away from the computer is going to make work go buy MUCH quicker

[Matt Armada]

good, so during my lunch break at school, trudge thru class, go to livrary during break, tell my empire to blow up a sector, come home, VIOLA, sector cleared and ready for use ..

Now sumtin like this..i duno..a like 1 sector online area totally empty you can meet with other people and like trade em stuff..might be a bit hard but simpleish....would be cool just to have that much interaction n no more.....

[StarDragon99]

this is the best idea ever, If only i'd have had something like this for x2 it would have made it so much easier.

[doubleshadow]

Now that's an example what can happen if you are crazy enough

Really cool

[bendyspex]

That is amazing. So now that we can incorporate web usage into the game, maybe we will be able to take it one step further and have all the people that are on linked into a chat server, or maybe have people send each other missions. That might just be impossible though.
Good work

[RaGodofTehSun]

you sir are a GOD among men

[Lofte]

Great idea, but i have a few questions.

1) Is it possible to change the listening port?, if at work and behind a firewall are there any requirements for open ports at the control end or does it work on port 80.

2)Will the Connection still work when the machine running X3 is on a home network behind a router with it's own IP range?

ie: actual IP is 192.168.1.101, Broadband modem is 202.152.1.143?

Still a great idea, i know how hard it can be to get it working for every possible home/work setup.

[Galaxy613]

[nuclear_eclipse]

@RaGodofTehSun - I know...

@Lofte:
1) If you open the 'x3rpm/conf/httpd.conf' file, you will find a line that says 'Listen 7800' - If you change this line to read 'Listen 80' or 'Listen XXXX' you can make the server listen on any port you want it to.

2) All you need to do in a home network is set the router for NAT/Port Forwarding to have the specified Listen port forwarded to the machine running the host. Once you do that, outside computers should be able to access the host.

This is actually how my own home is set up - DSL modem links to Router, Router links to 5 computers, one PC is a webserver on port 80, my game tower is hosting X3RPM on port 7800, etc.

@Galaxy613 - It's 'possible' but the amount of imformation that would normally need to be flowing back and forth would be astronomical, and the overhead of attempting such a feat would absolutely kill any semblance of performance. What IS possible, however, would be something like an 'IRC channel' run via the message system in X3, although I don't know how easy it is to get text input from the user....

[Galaxy613]

[bendyspex]

Galaxy, if we ever made X3:online, I would assume egosoft would most likely want to make it official, and then we could have a proper server and support. That would make the game a million times better!

[RaGodofTehSun]

could you imagine the complexs of an X3 online if a few players put their minds to it

[unfunfofmpc]

nice stuff