So sorry, if I irritated anyone.

I won't speak of it again.

Good Luck with the game.

So, some possible suggestions:

1. Use of VPN's to connect each client. This should reduce most of the attacks. Obviously changes to the existing network code should also scale to something a little larger than 16 players, but ROME wasn't built in a day as they say.
2. Issue keys to people for play. This can be automated at connection time, and tied to a persons phone. So a Phone or a FOB will be required. Fobs are pretty cheap, and Phones, well will require someone to write an app.
3. Charge to play. Doesn't have to be a lot, but something to cover the infrastructure costs of hosting the infrastructure to do the above, which will be complex.
4. You will need a team, probably of 2 people, one to write the network code and the other to write the client/app software for the phones.
5. Development time would probably work out to around 15-20 months if you had two guys working full time.

From what I have seen so far the requirements do not seem to be too onerous, so start a kickstart campaign to get about 500K to get the ball rolling. I mean if Star Citizen can produce basically nothing for hundreds of millions, it shouldn't be too hard to get a half a million from somewhere for new infrastructure and code for the game.

I would really like FAF too succeed. Mainly due to the fact it brings back memories.

This other is because I like to see PitViperX get microwaved to the face.

Here is the output from my game startup with the RC1 client, which looks really well done, by the way.

So I am hoping I could get this to run after following the FAQ and doing a bit of research. Hopefully it is something simple!

CD3DDeviceResources::DevResInitResources: Unable to load effect file /effects/cartographic.fx

Program : F:\gcarter.faforever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
Cmd line arguments : /init init.lua /nobugreport /log /home/gcarter/.faforever/logs/game_13392903.log /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:53550 /mean 860.715 /deviation 102.262 /savereplay gpgnet://127.0.0.1:44803/13392903/PLXChip.SCFAreplay /country US /numgames 245

Callstack:
unavailable.

Last 100 lines of log...

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info: checking C:\users\steamuser\My Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: mounting maps from: F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: checking F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: Found mod sounds in: BlackOpsFAF-Unleashed
info: Found mod sounds in: Oof
info: checking C:\users\steamuser\My Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\mods
info: checking C:\users\steamuser\My Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: checking F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\mods
info: checking F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\user\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps
info: checking F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\gamedata*.nxt
info: checking F:\gcarter.faforever\bin..\gamedata*.nx2
info: checking /home/gcarter/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\gamedata*.scd
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\14_you_shall_not_pass.v0002', mounted as '/maps/14_you_shall_not_pass.v0002/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\astro_crater_battles_4x4_rich_v2.v0001', mounted as '/maps/astro_crater_battles_4x4_rich_v2.v0001/'
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\mods#quality of performance', mounted as '/mods/#quality of performance/'
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\mods\expwars_1', mounted as '/mods/expwars_1/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\mods\oof', mounted as '/mods/oof/'
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\14_you_shall_not_pass.v0002', mounted as '/maps/14_you_shall_not_pass.v0002/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\astro_crater_battles_4x4_rich_v2.v0001', mounted as '/maps/astro_crater_battles_4x4_rich_v2.v0001/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\dualgap_adaptive.v0009', mounted as '/maps/dualgap_adaptive.v0009/'
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\user\my games\gas powered games\supreme commander forged alliance\maps\setons_isle.v0001', mounted as '/maps/setons_isle.v0001/'
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info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\env.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\etc.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\loc.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\meshes.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\modules.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\projectiles.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\schook.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\textures.nx2', mounted as '/'
info: DISK: AddSearchPath: 'f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\units.nx2', mounted as '/'
warning: Search path element "F:\home\gcarter.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\gamedata\ambience.scd" does not match any files
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info: Hooked /lua/userInit.lua with /schook/lua/userInit.lua
warning: Error in file /lua/userInit.lua : Unable to find file /lua/globalInit.lua
stack traceback:
[C]: in function `doscript'
...gcarter.faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\userinit.lua(18): in main chunk
warning: Error localizing "<LOC Engine0020>My Games": attempt to call a nil value
stack traceback:
warning: Unable to create document path: C
warning: Unable to create document path: C
warning: Unable to create document path: C
warning: CUIKeyHandler::LoadKeyMappings unable to open default key names file.
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: Error running '/lua/user/prefs.lua:GetOption': attempt to index a boolean value
stack traceback:
warning: GAL Exception: file : c:\work\rts\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(1229)
error: invalid head count
warning: f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\effects.nx2\effects\cartographic.fx: unable to compile effect: f:\gcarter.faforever\gamedata\effects.nx2\effects\cartographic.fx reason: (190): warning X3083: Truncating 4-vector to size 1
(204): error X3000: syntax error: unexpected token '('