EN FreeZone

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The FreeZone was invented by NADEO in late 2010. Since this main change of the game, players who use the free version of Trackmania (TMNF) can only drive on FreeZone Servers or have to make some complicated settings to join other servers. But the FreeZone also has some advantages. Due to the low amount of them, theyre always full.

Contents 1 Own FreeZone Server 1.1 Costs 1.2 Requirements 1.3 Rules for FreeZone Servers 1.4 Setting Up FreeZone for your Server 2 IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MATCHING THE RULES 3 Please note

Own FreeZone Server

You can make your rented server to a FreeZone Server if you fulfil the Requirements below. The FreeZone-Addon for your server costs 16 Cent per day and has limited availability.

Costs

The FreeZone-Addon costs 0.16 €/Credits per day.

Requirements

• The hostsystem of your server has to be FreeZone compatible. You can check this at the "Booking Options" under "Technical Informations"
• A FreeZone slot must be available (if the above requirement is fulfilled you can check this via the "Freezone-Slots" button at the booking options).
• You need a Server Account. (You can create one for free if you are a TMUF-User).
• You need 10000 Coppers once to enable freezone for your server account at the game manufacturers site.
• You have to pay a weekly free of 250 Coppers to keep FreeZone enabled.

Rules for FreeZone Servers

You have to accept the following rules by the creator of the game, NADEO, otherwise your server account gets banned by NADEO.

• The server must have 40 player slots.
• The server should not be password protected.
• The servername has to begin with "FreeZone".
• You must activate the Xaseco-Plugin ManiaLive Bridge at the Admin-Panel.

Setting Up FreeZone for your Server

1. Visit the Admin-Panel and choose "Bookingoptions".
2. Click on "FreeZone Slots".
3. If FreeZone slots are available, you can confirm that you want to set up a FreeZone server here.
4. Carefully read the instructions on this site. If you accept them you will be forwarded to enable FreeZone.
5. Start Trackmania United and visit the ManiaLink freezone:servers and click Add a server
6. Type in your server account and follow the on-screen instructions until the account is FreeZone-Enabled.
7. Visit the Admin-Panel again and choose "Booking Options".
8. Make a click on "Create Ranked / FreeZone Server".
9. Type in your server account and FreeZone key you got at the ManiaLink.
10. Go to the tab Xaseco at your Admin-Panel and activate the plugin ManiaLive Bridge
11. Restart your server.
12. The FreeZone plugin starts at least 5 minutes after the server has restarted, due to technical reasons.
13. You server will be automatically limited to 40 slots and the servername will be renamed to FreeZone....

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MATCHING THE RULES

A requirement for running a FreeZone-Server is, that players of the free Trackmania-Version are forced into Spectator-Mode (short Spec) after 5 rounds for 1 complete track. During this time, the players are not allowed to chat. Due to the fact that Xaseco runs beside the required Servertool "ManiaLive", you must make some important settings to match the rules made by NADEO.

Notice: Normally FreeZone-Servers should run the ManiaLive-Servertool only. As long as Xaseco does not influence the functionality of ManiaLive in a negative way, the use of Xaseco is allowed to. Anyway, if you do not manage matching the rules with both servertools, or if you want to run ManiaLive only, you can query the Support for disabling Xaseco on your server. If you want to use Xaseco, you must make the following settings:

Disabling the Chat for Players that are forced to Spec:

• Visit the Advanced Settings in you Admin-Panel
• Click Edit Config Files and select the xaseco/records_eyepiece.xml (If you made changes to that file before, restore the original file first)
• Find the section <custom_ui> in the file and set enabled to false.
• Save the file
• Edit the file again and change the positioning of the Dedimania-Panels (search for Dedimania), so that they do not overlap the "What is FreeZone"-Button (Example configuration). Save the file.
• Restart the server.

If the chat is still visible to players that are forced to spec, go to the Xaseco-Tab and disable all plugins except of Records Eyepiece and restart the server.

Check your server frequently for matching the rules. Check if the servertools still do what they should do - Otherwise restart the server.

Please note

After starting the server with FreeZone the fist time, it can take 24 hours until Nations-Players can join. That mostly happens when the NADEO-API is really busy. In this case have a little patience and use the time to check if you entered the correct API-Key.