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[quote name='Mattsacre' timestamp='1313515983' post='44799'] I'll take the cybernetic implant please. I can then play EnB 24/7 in my head no matter were I am/go Do we have client support for that yet? NO? Oh man...get on that right away please [/quote] Well heading home and back at 40000 feet again lol gotta love gogo internet its the only way to fly. Bitstorm Epic Gamers Guild

[quote name='alurra' timestamp='1313174117' post='44654'] Since I didn't get any help on this situation, let me tell you what the cause was. It was a function of having my smart phone on the USB jack and sharing the internet connection with it. As soon as I stopped connection sharing with my phone, I was able to log back in. Interesting 'problem' to look into I would think .... [/quote] i have same issue

[quote name='Bitstorm' timestamp='1313063002' post='44591'] howdy all, i'm cruising on my air tran flight at 40,000 feet. just wanted to give a shout out to you all. Bitstorm Epic Gamers Guild [/quote] The only down side to flying at 40k feet and having internet access is that i can't play earth and beyond. I also can't play it when tethered to my cell phone. I am able to log in but the moment i get to the character select screen the game crashes to desktop. I can play on normal wi-fi any day of the week but not when tethered. its rather inconvenient as I am always on the go. Can the Dev's look into this? The avg ping time on a cell phone is over 400ms that could be the cause. Bitstorm Epic Gamers Guild

howdy all, i'm cruising on my air tran flight at 40,000 feet. just wanted to give a shout out to you all. Bitstorm Epic Gamers Guild

I vote to close this thread. Open a new thread and sticky it if the server ever goes down. 118 pages of stuff to wade through can get tedious. Just a thought. Bitstorm Epic Gamers Guild.

[quote name='Kyp' timestamp='1312922666' post='44534'] Recent searches have shown us that EA cancelled their trademark on this game. The only thing still in effect would be the For hire Copyright on the material. (95 years from date of publication) With that said, revenue generation is something we intend to stay away from where possible, and Bit, I believe you approached me in a PM about that. Give me a way to reach your contact and we'll find out. Kyp [/quote] Yes i had forgotten about that lol. The 'friend' said that it would be best to do a general inquiry from an out side party that has nothing to do with 'this' to inquire about obtaining the IP.. (intellectual property) and then go from there. I will get the appropriate info soon. Bitstorm

[quote name='Ramses' timestamp='1312917544' post='44529'] Out of curiosity, what makes you think they would give up the rights for something they have invested lots of money in for pocketchange? [/quote] They didn't actually 'invest' anything. They bought out westwood studios in order to get the 'game engine' in order to create sims online. They promptly shut the EnB servers down 6 months after the final closure of the main studio occured. EA doesn't care about EnB. I know a couple of 'friends' (i use that term loosely) that work at EA sports and they know about this and don't care about it. This has been taken notice by EA and they haven't done anything to shut it down. Most game companies would send cease and desist orders if they got wind of this time of reverse engineering of their code. Which they haven't. That said, i think they would be very agreeable to 'rid' of the IP (intellectual property) in order to get the EA name back out there again for games like this. EA may even want to stay on as consulting partners etc. Its something that would need to be addressed legally through a lawyer etc as a general query to EA. Bitstorm

[quote name='C Del' timestamp='1312902072' post='44522'] I sure do like the idea of Progen tacos, bet they'd be nice and spicy. The problem with in-game ads is twofold: First, we already modify the EnB client, which EA owns the rights to, but doing so to add adverts and generate revenue would be a pretty blatant use of EA's intellectual property for gain. Second, I don't think we could get advertisers. Real MMO companies hire teams of lawyers to help them broker those ad deals, and the usual small-time advertiser, the mighty and powerful Google, dropped us like a hot rock after they saw what we do. [/quote] Should approach EA and just ask them if they would name a price on the EA intellectual rights. They don't want to use it and its getting close to the 10 year mark of being considered abandon ware.. If they want to make a bit of coin then all we have to do is ask them to let us pay royalties to them for full usage and rights to use the Int rights. Bitstorm

[quote name='Hypnos' timestamp='1312868844' post='44502'] Ya........me too *waves at Tsu* [/quote] Heads up, just noticed this when having issues transitioning from station to space. Check task manager and if you have several net7proxy.exe's running then it would be best if you killed those processes and the client.exe and then reloaded. If you force close the client.exe it will not close the net7proxy.exe as well and having multiple instances of that open could cause you to have transitioning problems. Just a thought Bitstorm

[quote name='Matsu' timestamp='1312860320' post='44483'] In live you could refer friends and get skill points. A reward of skill points for a donation may not be a bad incentive, maybe like 1 skill point per 5 dollars donated on a toon of your choosing, just a thought. [/quote] Its a nice pipe dream but if we break the EULA by 'charging' for goods in the game then EA will shut this down faster than we can say 'wait'.

[quote name='rabidcajun' timestamp='1312862036' post='44491'] seems it restarted with the same problem lol [/quote] Yep same issue. Can't get past load screen when selecting the character.

[quote name='Kenu' timestamp='1312861563' post='44488'] and it's up [/quote] Do tell what caused the insane lag and lack of transitioning? Bitstorm

Kyp, Is there a way to revert the patch back to previous for the time being? This may solve the issue at least for now. Bitstorm

It would be probably be best to have the cluster completely restarted and have the DNS and TCP/IP stack rebuild it self on the restart. I realize that the websites are probably being hosted on the same server cluster/blade. But it would probably be for the best to alleviate any oddities. Bitstorm

[quote name='Mimir' timestamp='1312845242' post='44407'] I thought the same thing, it would be very silly as IPs are known and very easy to compare. For instance, in the UK (where I am writing from today), anti-DDoS laws have been in place since 2006 and could result in you being sent to jail for up to ten years. Similar laws have also been present in Sweden since 2007. It's the same story in the USA, where they take a tough line on those who engage in denial-of-service attacks against websites. For instance, last year saw the jailing of a man who launched a [url="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2009/11/20/scientology-website-attacker-jail/"][color="#2571c2"]DDoS attack against the Scientology website[/color][/url]. And the servers are in Germany and from what I have read they DO follow up on them. [/quote] Its not a DDoS attack. the ping time response is too low. I'm only posting the last few hops because of my internal work security is confidential 8 amsix.bb-c.nkf.ams.nl.oneandone.net (195.69.144.220) 107.924 ms 108.187 ms 108.189 ms 9 te-4-1.bb-c.act.fra.de.oneandone.net (212.227.120.130) 132.251 ms 130.881 ms te-1-2.bb-c.the.lon.gb.oneandone.net (212.227.120.134) 121.191 ms 10 te-1-3.bb-c.tp.kae.de.oneandone.net (212.227.120.17) 133.368 ms te-1-3.bb-c.bap.rhr.de.oneandone.net (212.227.120.49) 124.835 ms te-1-3.bb-c.tp.kae.de.oneandone.net (212.227.120.17) 133.424 ms 11 ae-10.gw-distp-a.bad.oneandone.net (212.227.121.165) 140.292 ms 139.397 ms 139.914 ms 12 ae-1.gw-prtr-r211-a.bad.oneandone.net (195.20.247.44) 134.573 ms 134.106 ms 140.028 ms 13 sunrise.net-7.org (87.106.131.253) 140.025 ms 139.879 ms 134.317 ms if it was a DDoS attack the ping times would either be 800 + ms or *'s Bitstorm