PoLiX

What error message does it give when he does "?go" once he is in tw? If it says something about res, then there ya go. But if it just says disconnected from server, then something else is up.

Except that in the first 2-3 years we did exactly opposite of all of what I listed. We put together a central biller, got ourselves hosting, revived some of the dying zones, put together a central group to communicate and work together, got hosting organized for the vie zones, created a new client, etc. etc. We actually did work together, and prospered. It was after such time that the competition for the huge influx of population began the driving seperation, and the developer of our client went mia. Things have been downhill ever since for the total population. Some zones have come in and thrived, but overall the population has been on a decline with some bump ups, but mostly from zones adding bots. Had we continued what we started doing, actively developing the game and working together to promote and move forward, we'd be in a different boat right now. Just my honest opinion. Could I be wrong? Sure. It is an opinion. But just looking at what happened in those first 2-3yrs compared to the later (beyond the luck of ZDTV), it is almost undeniable that us working together rather than against each other pushed us further. Do you think HS and HZ would be in the same place they are now if you guys didn't work together at some level?

This game could be the perfect lesson/example of why a player ran game cannot survive. We let one player code everything, and go MIA without any accountability to the community. We never made any central authority to control the game, keep everyone in line, and keep everyone working together for the greater good. Instead we tore our community apart with stupid politics and wanting to be in control of the most players, and created our own mini communities in our game that was barely keeping 1 entire community alive. We setup a system that allowed abuse, discrimination, and no accountability. At all levels this ran rampid. A centralized biller not allowing anyone on, an elitist council "overseeing" everything, and zone owners freely able to cheat and abuse in their own zones at free will. Many zones worked harder at discrediting each other and stealing each other's players, than they ever did actually working together for the greater good of the game. In reality we failed ourselves. We had every opportunity to stop this, and we never did anything beyond bitched and complained. There has been some strives lately to regain what we once had, but sadly I think we'll find it is just too late. The best we can do is just enjoy playing this game as we all slowly leave and move on. It would take a miracle for us to rise out of the ashes again, and I honestly don't have my fingers crossed. Just my jumbled 2 cents.

If that was all you needed, coulda told you that. This has been in the works for years, but never came to fruitation until recently. EG, Powerball, and Chaos hooked up arenas with listings so that our players could hop around the zones with ease. So far it has actually had a positive effect for the zones. There is the pubs, and a select arena or 2 from our zones. DSB has been recently hooked up, but not sure of the plan with them tbh. I know EG and Chaos have been both looking at moving to ASSS, and this is just kind of a step/test in that direction also. The only thing it hurts is people seeing the zones with larger populations. But in reality, they do esc+a, and see all the people are in other "arenas". That already happens in the zones during league times, or special events anyways. The public arenas pretty much die off, and everyone is in a subarena. But right now there is EG:0, EG:Lounge, EG:egfl2011 (? was EG:baseduel2), CZ:0, CZ:4v4squad1, PB:0, PB:replay, and DSB:0

not just a pop boost, it is just an event they don't always shut the bots off on. It isn't that hard to do, but I think they just leave them until someone really notices/points it out.

I counted the bots in all the public arenas of the zones before. I can't seem to find the doc, it wasn't half the pop, but quite surprisingly still a lot of bots. The worst percentage (of zones with active pop) going to EG, followed by TW, and then Chaos. Since then I know Chaos has reduced the number of bots it keeps loaded (wheter liked it or not), and TW reduced some of its. Dunno about EG, as it actually looks like more arenas are open now.

And could just use their current SSC scoreid info

There is quite a few key things that fall into it.

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I'd assume Priit might have shut it down? Odd he didn't shutdown SWZ if he did it for any reasons I could think of though.

PoLiX> ?find Not online, last seen 8 days ago PoLiX> ?find priitK Not online, last seen 9 days ago Seems he's just keeping his names alive. -------- Lookin good man, keep up the work.

I sware he once said for security reasons it was using it, so then noone could break it open and find the encryption.

WD had a few years where they put out some really shitty products. Sadly they've had this happen twice now. I dunno if it is when they feel their profit margin is sinking, they try to make it back up with cheaper parts, or what. But the past year or so I have read less complaints about some of their new USB 3.0 externals.

Then it shouldn't have SubSpace in the title

anyone tried starlight lately? Would tell if it is offline, or just only allowing Starlight to access it.

Javaspace sounds good enough.

It is because of the way the client is packed for security. Antivirus software, some Spyware software, etc. assumes it is a virus or malware. Not all does as we have done work to submit continuum to them, but if yours is out of date or 1 we haven't contacted then it can cause issues. Very few people run into this issue anymore, so I'd assume that is the cause in your case.

Well, here is something funny. Upgraded the firewall, and poof... http://www.sshyperspace.net/ is now working too. But never showed any denies in IP Tables log, Firewall log, etc. Must have been a bug in that version of the software. Honestly the biggest reason I hate software firewalls. Edit: and now http://directoryservers.sshq.net/ shows it as up. hah.

Just weird some people can connect. Restarted the vps, as firewall looked normal. Zones have been / are connecting to it fine without being blocked. Now your site shows it up, but http://directoryservers.sshq.net/ still shows it down. Not sure what is up there. As for the sites... I was watching SubSpace.net, but just felt it'd be wrong to redo something that had been done/died off. Use to be tons of SS related websites... now there is just 1 actively updated (though not much as of late).

Was working fine for me yesterday and this morning, but I restarted it just to see. Again shows it running, I can download from it just fine, and so can a few other people I asked. Odd... As for the domains... Sadly doubt anyone will do anything major with them. Seems people would rather just work on their zone's website anymore.

Side Note: Your stats has been reporting the SSCentral directory server down for 2 days+ yet it is up?

MikeTheNose & Hoch saw it initially, and Spacehiker could see it now if he wanted. He was also sent the exploits list.

There is actually a type of ban that can be set network wide by a lvl0 bang op that is RARELY ever set that will catch pretty much anyone. There is no bypassing the ban with the normal methods, so it takes some good effort and knowledge to get around. I can't tell much more about the ban, nor will post the evidence outside of the bang website as it shows many of the exploits of the biller, & TW websites. As to why this is posted here, dunno. Guess tetris- was hiding in HS under the name NN.