Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
"You can actually play any unpacked map without the rfa installed, but only single player game mode"
why only singleplayer mode?
Take a look at your ...\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942 folder\bf1942\levels
notice there are folders for maps that you have not downloaded, but attempted to connect to a server and received the "Map Not Found" message only a loadcounter.dat is found.
But what if the server sent the entire map unpacked when you tried connecting to a server with a map not installed? And then the packrfa.bat file was somehow triggered to pack the rfa and send it to the levels folder, after recieving the map not found message, user would reconnect to the server and start loading the map? Hmm, is there a possibility?
or... even easier
What if the .bat file was coded to connect to a filehosting server, check to see if the .rfa is in the levels folder, if not the bat will download the map from a filehosting server to the levels folder, when done downloading, the bat will trigger bf1942 to run..
I'm currently working with some programmer to make this work somehow.. stay tuned
good news, there is a possibility, expect an autodownloader soon