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Valentines Day Events

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:36:31 +0000

its early, But, Valentines day events are now active Get your Hugs and Snugs and Heart Shields, See Shou Tzu For the Heart shields missions, Curator Whitley about Snugs and Hugs, and Happy Hunting.

server restart 02/18/2026 930pm eastern

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:17:55 +0000

There will be an outage tonight that will require our server be rebooted altogether (beyond our control). Please warn people to log out by around 9:20pm eastern, as they will begin around 9:30pm and are expecting completion within ~5 minutes, at which time Kyp may need to bring some things back up and online.

"The facility will be performing scheduled maintenance on the power circuit serving the rack hosting your server tonight at 9:30 PM EST.
As part of this work, the services listed below will be rebooted. Systems are expected to return online within 5 minutes.

Christmas 2025 is now active

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:48:42 +0000

Christmas Season has arrived in the net-7 EnB Emulator universe, there are several missions available, first Mary Christmas (Docking bay Joves Fury Station) Has lost her Chritmas carols, awards milk and cookies to give to Santa, Santa Is in jupiter space not far from nav Jupiter path the third. gives a gift. Take gift to Net-7 Station in Saturn to give to Santa's helper who will defuse it and give three (3) skill points,.

Second: Buelah F7 left side casino, Buelah's Christmas Cake, Mission gives the Polar Express Engine Lvl 4 all professions, can use.

Third: Yell-o-Snow, converts snow ball launcher to a yell-0-Snow launcher, (suggest doing this before mary christmas lost her carols if you have snow ball launcher from the fast as the snow ball launcher is a unique Item but if it becomes a yell-o-snow launcher it is a different launcher, see Cobus the clown.

Fourth: For those who are lvl 150 + and are up for a challenge there is Dickens - Bah Humbug mission: See Ariad to start mission, also if you need a Gm to respawn any of the mobs for this mission especially the Mad Professor let the GM's know so they can respawn the mobs needed for as many toons that need the mission, if you have any mission issues please submit a gm help ticket for assistance so the we can help you all in a timely manner.

There are a few more active christmas missions see Sol-Sec Bob for two of them,

Woodstock HGM

So You Want To Be A Game Developer?

Sun, 03 May 2015 04:31:49 +0000

Hello there,

The Earth & Beyond emulator team is seeking several talented, spirited, and knowledgeable folks to work with us in updating and adding to the Earth & Beyond storyline. More specifically, we would like to recruit those who have a more extensive knowledge of each of the racial backgrounds from the live game. Those being Terran, Progen and Jenquai. It is a hard job, and sometimes thankless I would admit, but it’s a very rewarding thing and it teaches one a lot of lessons about what it’s like on the other side.

Part of the delay with content recently has been the extremely limited schedules of those of us that have the knowledge to put together missions that both make for a more enjoyable play experience and not violate the storyline as we have it. This position would mean a few things, first and foremost abiding by all rules specified in our Code of Conduct for developers. You would need a microphone and the ability to attend meetings. These occur at 1pm US Eastern Time on Sunday to try to allow for everyone around the world the chance to participate as we do have developers from all over. Next, you need to be driven to create things, it would help if you were proficient with the idea of writing dialogue or even being willing and able to listen to coaching and constructive criticism.

What this job doesn’t require? Contrary to popular belief it doesn’t mean knowing how to program in any major programming language (although this, or an understanding can help to diagnose problems you might have). We provide our content developers with a tool set that they log into and manipulate a GUI interface to build missions and other items for content for the player base.

Anyway, we’re seeking, and we’re hoping some of you are brave enough to answer the call. If you think this sounds like you and you’re willing to give us 5-10 hours a week to help things move along, please send me a private message here in the forum and introduce yourself. We’ll take it from there.

Maintenance: 2025-09-19

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:23:44 +0000

When I can work out a convenient time for myself tomorrow (sorry if it's not for you ) I will be taking the game down for a few minutes to apply security updates on things, the expected downtime should be no more than 30 minutes, hopefully much faster even.

Just heads up. When I log in I will check with chat for raids that may be in progress with instructions on where to report and wrap it up after any are concluded.

Bug Fix: Hulls

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:52:13 +0000

Hi folks,

I'm just going to go ahead and put it out now before we do it. Your hulls with all avatars *may* experience a change. Thanks to a recent report, we discovered a bug with hull value calculations and are going to correct it with the next game restart, most likely.

Some might see it as a nerf, some a blessing, but ultimately and regardless, we're going to fix it along with anyone erroneously benefiting from it.

Maintenance Time (June 2025)

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:30:12 +0000

Hi guys,

Just giving a heads up, sometime over the course of the next few days I'll get to what needs to happen with sunrise and the game will end up getting a restart. I'll log on to give a heads up when it's time.

One More Maintenance

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:32:51 +0000

Just heads up folks, one more maintenance sometime tomorrow or Sunday as I need to update the SSL cert so everyone doesn't have a bad day soon.

Net-7 Maintenance - Sunday February 2nd, 2025 & Sunday February 9th, 2025

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:42:51 +0000

Sometime tomorrow I will be performing some updates to our security infrastructure. This will mean the game has to come down temporarily, most likely but if it does go down, we would plan for no longer than 30 minutes. I will get in game and announce a few minutes ahead of starting.

2nd maintenance may run a bit longer as there's a bit of DB maintenance to do in the process.

E-mail issues - Forums / registration

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:13:38 +0000

Hi folks, aware of it, workin' on it. The forum's mailbox has gotten spam listed, I may have to update it a bit I'm working on it, and hopefully will have it working again soon.

Maintenance sometime today or tomorrow (Sat/Sun 11/9-10/2024)

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 18:40:43 +0000

Not exactly sure when I'll get to this but game probably needs a restart anyway and I have some maintenance to apply to things that would otherwise interrupt the game anyway, so gonna take advantage of the routine timing to stay current.

Anyway, I'll make my usual announcements in game.

Maintenance again today (2024-10-01)

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:24:35 +0000

Sometime today I will be on to take the game down. I was informed there was starting to be some issues manifest from runtime so I'm gonna get everything up to date and bring it all back up again.

This may mean a little downtime, but I'm not expecting it to take too long. I have done everything I can for the updates to cut out overhead time.

Maintenance Today (2024-09-05)

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:07:22 +0000

I am trying to do all the non-disruptive stuff first, but there are some nasty evil hobbitses out there in the wild, and things need their updates. Bypasses have got to be built, right?

Anyway, when I get there, there'll be an outage while I update the game server and the security tools to the latest versions.

wiki domain changed

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:33:29 +0000

Hello,

I moved wiki to net7wiki.bmsite.net domain which is hosted by me.

Move was done because Mediawiki really does not like being on current net7 Windows/IIS hosting which has no issues hosting portal/forums. There was connections dropouts (page did not load completely) and generally slow loading times.

Because it is 3rd party service now, login is optional and you can read wiki without logging in.

However login is still handled by net7 servers and wiki only gets your forum name and email.

I also removed users who did not have any edits in wiki.

Maintenance tomorrow - Time TBD/on the fly again (sorry)

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:56:54 +0000

This shouldn't take too long, just need to update some of our software. Anyway, heads up!

Maintenance Tomorrow (July 2nd, 2024) - Time TBD

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:30:11 +0000

Need to do some routine maintenance and server restarting. Hamster gene resequencing and the like. At any rate, there'll be an outage. Ill at least ask if any raids are ongoing... probably.

Outage today

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:23:24 +0000

Hi folks, web host had some server issues today, sorry about that. Things look to be back but may not be able to bring game server back up today if it is down.

Out of town til tomorrow night. Please accept our apologies, didn't come to my attention until this afternoon.

(More) Network Maintenance - Sometime this week in the evening hours US Eastern daylight time

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:29:05 +0000

Heads up. Shouldn't be very long but need to do some upgrades again. I will pop on and give folks 10 or so to get somewhere safe, then get it done and game back up.

Network Maintenance - May 24th (Complete), May 27th (Complete)

Fri, 24 May 2024 01:39:42 +0000

We need to update some software and unfortunately, that's going to take most of our services offline for the duration. As such, this is your heads up that this will occur tomorrow evening Eastern US Daylight Time to see if we can get to the latest versions without issues.

Everything is in the name of keeping it all secure.

First maint is complete, tonight or tomorrow (25th or 26th) we will be conducting a test of the new software which will require temporarily downing the game and other services to validate our settings, and then we will be back in usual business for a while.

Missed the maintenance plan due to the real world, go figure. Anyway, gonna do it tomorrow. Be advised. I will log on and give everyone at least 10 minutes but the testing should be fairly quick.

Network Maintenance - April 15th, 2024

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 21:17:05 +0000

Hi folks,

Just a heads up, I need to perform maintenance so I plan to do this tomorrow morning US Eastern time. It will probably be between 8a-12p, I am not sure when precisely, but the game should not be down for very long hopefully, I just wanted to give you a little heads up.

Thanks.

Upcoming Maintenance

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:00:03 +0000

Hi folks,

Just letting you know, the date/time isn't hammered out completely yet, but probably sometime this upcoming week the game service (and potentially our websites) may be offline temporarily while we perform some needed updates. Follow this thread for more details.

The tentative time for this will be Tuesday evening the 23rd, after 7pm Eastern time US until midnight Eastern time, or 12-5 GMT. Probably won't take that long as we're trying to do anything we can ahead of time, but want to be clear that this does mean services are down/will be down. If for some reason the forum is unavailable, you can reach us at the Facebook page.

Net-7 Status - Partially Rebuilt

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:24:19 +0000

We'd been trying to keep up with things on Facebook too but I'm just going to centralize things we know and what we're doing here and link it back there going forward. If you have questions, feel free to post, we'll answer as soon as we can. High level on things that happened and where we're going:

We were attacked by a broadly spread "spray" attack known as esxiArgs, which is a ransomware for the VMWare environment older than a certain version. It exploited a service in older versions of VMWare if it could reach it to gain admin authority and thus control of the disks.
Fortunately, we got an early version of this ransomware and it was possible to retrieve the vast majority of our data

What we decided:

It was time for a new host, and to leave the last host because while this is also on us, there is really no reason keeping this level of service up to date shouldn't have been easier.
We acquired a new host and a new separate web hosting plan in order to help reduce costs AND server maintenance outside of improvements to the game. We have migrated our data here.
We had to build out the new environment and protective mechanisms and tested
Because what we were hit with was a security issue with a version of our software, we decided that as part of this we would upgrade all of the major software involved. This led to some issues with the database imports. We are working through these issues.
After the databases are restored and available the sites should mostly be online (already in physical place they're just missing databases, we will check them out and confirm the state passes and some testing is done. Once all is confirmed we'll be setting up the game server again.
The Game Server, the part you care about of course , it's dependent on those websites / DBs in the previous two steps... so as soon as these are done we should be able to bring the game server itself up pretty quickly.

The promises of 'real quick' aged about as well as I expected, the game is back up for now. STAY AWAY from Item, Character, Account transfers using the portal for now, or you may live to regret it. We reserve the right for continued outages as necessary to repair things but we're back to stable(ish)

GRIPE THREAD:

TeamSpeak 3

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:39:39 +0000

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know we are now supporting TeamSpeak3. The server is on ts.net-7.org Port 9987. This is for TeamSpeak 3 ONLY!

Download it here:

http://www.teamspeak.com/

They are doing alot of updates as this is still in Beta

Thanks,

David

Avatar Name Changes .........

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:01:09 +0000

If you wish to have your Avatar name Changed this includes adding the profession initials, Your Request Must be Submitted Via the GM tickets System, So that we have a paper trail and prof of the request, This is to protect you from getting your Avatars from being changed by someone else, If the name(s) are available the names will be changed and you will get a response back through the GM Ticket System that the names) have been changed,

Be Signed into the Net-7.org (Portal Page) then go to the WebHelp page then to the Ingame issues (GM Support) selection DO NOT USe the Tech/Web/Portal Selection as anything there goes to the DEVS, Not, The GM's. The InGame issues GM Suppport Does Work I tested it BUT YOU MUST BE SIGNED IN to the Net-7 portal page in order to use it

WOODSTOCK HGM

Donation Tracker issues - Donations page

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:08:28 +0000

Hi guys,

I have an issue open with the vendor for this forum plug in/app that handles our donations now. We've gotten it back online, more or less but there seems to be a bug they think ties in with the version of the forum and they're working on the resolution of that first to confirm.

FYI though, this is what it looks like when you click the 'view goals' link at the bottom. This is known and expected but we think the tracker should work otherwise.