Battlefield 2 Buddy List [Archive] - Total Gaming Network

Meritt

07-31-2005, 08:27 PM

http://www.xchain.org/bf2buddy.php

Been using this for myself for a while, decided to make it a bit more functional and public. Enter in the exact name of your friends (capitalization important) and it'll show their game-monitor.com sigs. Simple interface, but an easy way to see which of your buddies are online, and where they are at.

No registration/etc needed. I'd suggest making your username something unique, because somebody else can access your buddy list and modify it as long as they know the username you use on the page (the BF2 buddy list username does not need to be your BF2 name, it can be anything.)

If you have some simple requests, post here and I'll consider it.

Meritt

07-31-2005, 08:51 PM

Okay, just fixed a couple of bugs I just noticed.

Brian

07-31-2005, 09:05 PM

Interesting.. I'll give it a shot, even though meeting cool people in this game is very rare.

C11.Nemisis

07-31-2005, 09:06 PM

nice little web interface

Meritt

07-31-2005, 09:19 PM

Interesting.. I'll give it a shot, even though meeting cool people in this game is very rare.

Heh, I agree. That's entirely why I made this -- So I do remember the occasional cool people.

Clan members could also use it to see who of their clan is online/where.

Meritt

08-01-2005, 04:54 AM

Bumpage.

Wreck0

08-01-2005, 07:47 AM

Very nice.

shadow2k1

08-01-2005, 01:01 PM

wow nice little thing ya got goin ill try this out

jerryopela

08-01-2005, 01:39 PM

Crashlander

08-01-2005, 01:50 PM

Very very cool and saves loads of time. Thanx a lot for that Meritt, Kudos to you m8 :D

STICKYSTICKYSTICKY!!!!

Meritt

08-01-2005, 02:07 PM

Cool utility, but I cant get it to work. When I add a buddy all I get is the big X. I know I am spelling and capitalizing everything right, I even added myself to test it and nothing. Is anybody else having the same problem?

Press F5/Refresh, the images are loading from www.game-monitor.com, so their servers might be temporarily down or something.

You can access your page through a link, something like:

http://www.xchain.org/bf2buddy.php?login=Meritt

Just replace 'Meritt' with whatever your login name for the page is.

Chevy_chase

08-01-2005, 02:22 PM

i think a login should be added with password

still cool though..

Meritt

08-01-2005, 03:49 PM

i think a login should be added with password

still cool though..

Meh, can't see any real necessary reason to do that. As long as you keep your login name unique, nobody will jack with your list.

Sharp

08-01-2005, 05:44 PM

Great idea, nice work

BulletForYou

08-01-2005, 06:22 PM

Cool.Thanks,I'll check it out.

Dangerdog

08-01-2005, 06:41 PM

anyway to isolate it so it only tracks players on BF2 servers? I'm coming up with peoples names in other games, not the person I'm looking for.

Meritt

08-01-2005, 06:42 PM

anyway to isolate it so it only tracks players on BF2 servers? I'm coming up with peoples names in other games, not the person I'm looking for.

Yeah, I noticed that. I haven't seen any way through game-monitor.com to isolate to BF2 for the player sigs. Let me know if you see anything...

tripleplay369

08-01-2005, 06:43 PM

Very cool, simple, and easy to use.

Dangerdog

08-01-2005, 06:57 PM

Alphabetize the list?

Meritt

08-01-2005, 07:02 PM

Alphabetize the list?

Roger that, list will now be alphabetized.

Dangerdog

08-01-2005, 07:39 PM

Tanks!

Meritt

08-01-2005, 08:11 PM

The page now only displays BF2 players, I spoke with the designer of www.game-monitor.com and got him to adjust the code so we could use that functionality.

pr1970

08-02-2005, 08:38 AM

this is very handy , thanks.
one question. i logged into one server then bf2 crashed, i restarted bf2, logged into another server and started playing but the stats still showed that i was in the original server even though i`d been playing for 10mins.
any ideas?

R.C.Speirs

08-02-2005, 09:40 AM

I got one word for you: XFIRE ;)

pr1970

08-02-2005, 10:20 AM

one word for you: firewall

some of us are behind company firewalls that xfire doesnt work with.

Meritt

08-02-2005, 01:17 PM

XFire is great for it's intended use. But when you're in a squad and you are running with some guy you thought was pretty solid, you might only remember his BF2 name. Or maybe he simply doesn't have X-Fire. Or maybe you didn't get a chance to ask his xfire ID and you'd like to ask him again.

This is what this is for. You can, simply, track people by their in-game ID. It's not supposed to be all fancy. It has one simple job, and that's all it is supposed to accomplish. If you want more features, then by all means, go use xfire. Both projects accomplish vastly different features.

5nakeEy3s

08-02-2005, 01:30 PM

Just use Xfire , you can track down anyone in anygame , plus u can join it or talk 2 him like a chat box . If u modefie the settings you will see your buddys in green when u look in the mini-map.

Meritt

08-02-2005, 02:51 PM

<sighs>

You people have issues. Explain to me how XFire helps when I meet RandomJoe003 ingame and want to play with him again? What happens when he doesn't have XFire.

R.C.Speirs

08-02-2005, 04:55 PM

Nono...your wrong - aint got any issues. I think its a great feature and devotement :) One thing I miss also, is the ability to ADD players IG (In Game - for those who dont know ;) )

yig

08-02-2005, 06:49 PM

Simple and useful, very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Meritt

08-02-2005, 09:39 PM

Heh, sorry, I was just getting annoyed with folk suggesting XFire. XFire can't track people who don't have Xfire. This can. Simple as that.

shadow2k1

08-03-2005, 01:54 AM

Interesting.. I'll give it a shot, even though meeting cool people in this game is very rare.

im cool people, my forum name is my xfire name if anyone wants to add me

alecs36

08-03-2005, 02:47 AM

buddy list?

what you people don't have xfire yet?

Marvel

08-04-2005, 06:54 PM

Fantastic effort Meritt, I plan on using it along with XFire! Both in equal harmony!

Dangerdog

08-04-2005, 06:56 PM

Nono...your wrong - aint got any issues. I think its a great feature and devotement :) One thing I miss also, is the ability to ADD players IG (In Game - for those who dont know ;) )

If they do ever add a buddy system I hope they don't spam the player with pop-ups "such and such player wants to add you to their buddy list, accept? [yes] [no]" while "IG" :dead:

aznsensation18

08-04-2005, 06:56 PM

will have to check this out

Black Ops

08-04-2005, 07:26 PM

Couldn't you just use xfire? Then again there are those that don't have it... Good idea.

coco

08-04-2005, 11:07 PM

Should of just registered all your friends/clan at bf2tracker.com, then you could have had a buddy list from week 1.
Weve been using it to track each other, also got a great server status facility, i can check whos on our server and check where all my clan mates are.

Stalwart

08-06-2005, 06:15 PM

Very handy, just what I've been after.
Saves a lot of messing around and phone calls lol ;)

TFlanary

08-07-2005, 07:32 AM

So, is there a way to click on a person's name and have it linked to their stats?

Got3n™

08-07-2005, 07:58 AM

why not just use xfire, none the less nice job.

Sekure

08-07-2005, 11:49 AM

Nice one, i cant remember any of the nice people i gamed with though :(

DoubleVee

08-07-2005, 03:47 PM

I'd suggest making your username something unique, because somebody else can access your buddy list and modify it as long as they know the username you use on the page (the BF2 buddy list username does not need to be your BF2 name, it can be anything.)

what kind of a person would actually want to hack your buddy list. LOL

JPSpencer

08-07-2005, 05:12 PM

Nice work, thanks for the time and dedication =)

Dawson_21(SAS)

08-07-2005, 11:02 PM

Aye seems to work fine... now i'll buddy all those 'punishers' who've raped my hard earned points. ;)

tehpwnzoor

08-08-2005, 06:58 AM

thats sick, does it have to be the exact name like with caps locks and stuff

[RNS]_[}{]ightower

08-08-2005, 08:28 PM

Very nice. Very easy. Thank you.

Reprobate

08-10-2005, 09:02 AM

Meritt, you're a godsend! I've been looking for a way of tracking down my mates without either texting them or dropping the BF2 screen to ask them via chat software. Admittedly, I haven't had chance to test your software yet but if it works as it should, it will be just what I was after.
Thanks.

Strega

08-11-2005, 12:54 PM

I swear I see one more person post, "WHY DON'T YOU USE XFIRE", and I'm gonna lose all faith in the community that is BF2.

Meritt, this is awesome. Thank you for taking the time to put this together, such a very cool feature.

F all the haters.

EliteOperative7

08-13-2005, 06:21 PM

They need this within the game. The GUI in the game needs some SERIOUS retooling. I wish I was a programmer at DICE.

imported_Disturbed

08-14-2005, 07:28 AM

They need this within the game. The GUI in the game needs some SERIOUS retooling. I wish I was a programmer at DICE.

Amen to that..

the whole browser smells awful..

unresponsive..and very sensitive to accidental keystrokes or mouse clicks.

Ive found the wheel on my mouse, which I am used to using in other games
server browser will flat out lock my whole game.. sometimes even the whole
pc will lock up..

Besides that.. No FAVS LIST ?? These guys were out to lunch when this
code was written by the office cleaning crew or something.. A buddies
list would be nice, but a Fav Server List is a MUST in any online game.
get real, DICE.

I believe I saw a post where a Editor for EA said a buddies list was NOT in
the current includings for the next patch..but that a fav server list was.

figures.. those morons are only capable of doing 1 thing at a time..

We are all paying beta testers, me thinks.. the game will call itself
FULL RELEASE at about patch 1.75

exho

08-15-2005, 10:18 AM

very usefull..... good job

HoiZ

08-15-2005, 12:24 PM

good work

CommandoTX

08-16-2005, 07:48 PM

Sekure, I saw your tutorial on how to make good looking grass on photoshop :D

That friend list is very good, though it should be update more frequently.

Kevin123456789

08-18-2005, 05:40 PM

Nice but Xfire helps more!:) ;)

(BG)Patton

08-22-2005, 12:11 AM

stfu about xfire! cool you have it, you want a cookie???????
thanks merrit this rock, i will use it often!

bf2autoloader

08-26-2005, 12:43 AM

BF2AutoLoader 2.0 got a buddy list

http://www.bf2al.com/

Enjoy!

DLWebmaestro96

08-29-2005, 04:21 PM

X-Fire is awesome.

imported_razor

09-06-2005, 02:00 AM

i like xfire but i wil try this out, Hey dude work for xifre!!!! lol

Xfire name ISOFRAZOR

Strings9

09-06-2005, 02:41 AM

thanks ill try this

imported_Snafu

09-08-2005, 09:55 PM

Does'nt ASE have a buddy list ?

webwiper

09-10-2005, 09:54 AM

Works great !

Talus

09-11-2005, 02:10 PM

Does'nt ASE have a buddy list ?

ASE's Battlefield 2 player list retrieval is currently bugged...making it very difficult to track buddies in BF2.

I'm hoping they fix it soon though.

Xfire causes FPS drop for most people so I stopped using it. Plus, everybody you want to join up with has to run it..pain in the butt.

...if the author would add the bf2:// protocol scipt, this page would be perfect :D

BF2:// PROTOCOL (http://www.game-monitor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=428)

Marksmen

09-12-2005, 03:33 AM

Good idea.

DakotaDoc64

09-12-2005, 07:37 PM

Any idea when this site will be back online. Seems to have vaporized. Just like my signature from [ http://stats.codeflow.org ] :cry: What is going on?:(

http://www.xchain.org/

Meritt

09-13-2005, 12:56 PM

xchain.org was down for about 3 hours yesterday due to the citywide power outage in LA. It's back up now. Sorry, completely out of my control :)

As far as the BF2 protocol, right now I can't do that without some processing of the game-monitor.com siglinks -- as those contain the actual IP/port of the servers. the BF2 Buddy List never actually gets any of that information, it's just pulling the compiled images directly from game-monitor.com

I'll see if it's possible, but no plans to implement it at this time. Sorry.

Talus

09-13-2005, 03:46 PM

That's quite alright...since I don't understand all of the behind-the-scenes stuff, it never hurts to ask ;)

Berrern

09-14-2005, 08:31 AM

My buddy list doesn't work anymore - all I see are red X'es instead of the "sigs"? Any idea what's going on?

imported_r0279s

09-14-2005, 12:45 PM

yep getting the same!

Meritt

09-14-2005, 04:44 PM

www.game-monitor.com doesn't seem to be properly rendering player sigs. Not sure why, no news/forum posts that I can find.

As my site simply compiles a list of game-monitor images, until their stuff gets fixed, buddy list will be broke as well.

Shiverwarp

09-15-2005, 03:23 AM

Phooie :( I liked the buddy list lots

Berrern

09-15-2005, 11:25 AM

It seems to be working again now :)

Shiverwarp

09-24-2005, 04:06 AM

broken again, I get a php error

LaserCobra

09-24-2005, 01:51 PM

I've been getting 'MySQL' errors when trying to create a new list or edit my original. :confused:

*Edit*
Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql.theriley.com' (1) in /home/.hans/demitri/xchain.org/bf2buddy.php on line 64
Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql.theriley.com' (1)

This is the message I get when trying to edit a list....

Daz

09-25-2005, 10:43 AM

Bah its messing up, I can log in but cant add or delete anyone anymore. Some sql error.

LaserCobra

09-25-2005, 03:45 PM

So can anyone fix it?

Is there an alternative?

Meritt

09-25-2005, 06:49 PM

http://www.xchain.org/bf2buddy.php

Fixed. Sorry about that, not sure what the hell happened with the database stuff.

WrAth2110

09-25-2005, 09:37 PM

LaserCobra

09-25-2005, 10:11 PM

I personally like it being so simple and clean. It's fast, it's easy, and it's free. I've got a nice list of IPs for my favorit servers because I had to write them down before joining. They have a little star next to them. =)

Meritt

09-26-2005, 01:49 PM

Ok.... It needs the ability to access the game without entering the ip; like xfire for instance. It is cool, but not that great. I could just use bf2s.com if i really wanted to find out where someone is and have to type in the ip.

You need to make it possible to access the game and directly connect to your friend's server without righting down the ip.

The entering-the-game thing is not going to happen. Sorry, this is a very simple web script. I have no way to even know what the data held in those images is, that's entirely coming from www.game-monitor.com. And I'm not going to do some image parsing to find out either :)

If you have a better solution for yourself, then by all means, use it. This is for a convenience for people who need it, that's all.

Aussie_Pride

10-03-2005, 07:00 AM

I use a few programs to find my buddys on BF2

* Yahoo! - All seeing eye (not very reliable)
* Xfire
*Qtracker
*www.bf2s.com (It shows and Offline/Online stat listing which server.
*www.game-monitor.com (very reliable)

woo

10-15-2005, 07:10 PM

Exactly what i needed! Nice job mate!:D

zacman13245

10-19-2005, 04:41 PM

nice ill check it out

JimmyNoobtron

10-24-2005, 02:17 PM

I use xxx-fire. It only shows me the location of hot chicks that play BF2. So far I haven't found any, but I'm hopeful.

LaserCobra

11-23-2005, 01:50 AM

Did the latest patch break this tool? No one is listed but it says I have 'x' buddies on said list...

JimmyNoobtron

11-23-2005, 10:53 PM

Click on the purple letters that say Lasercobra's Buddy List. Or something like that. It will expand your list. When I did it, none of my buddies were on, but maybe they just weren't. Can't be sure though. It used to expand them out automatically.