Smallyoda

We have a lot of active members; if everyone donates 5-10 bucks every 6 months they will have more than enough money to keep this awesome game running. We need that hardware and bandwidth to server this thing. So dig out the pocket change and throw some their way. Cheers

[quote name='Overtkill' timestamp='1312421234' post='43972'] I concur with these posts. I had a new harpy made yesterday because of this very issue. And it was indeed slow even though I had the new harpy plugged in. Should be an easy fix though. [/quote] Ya it will just be a changed variable.

[quote name='bitstorm' timestamp='1312424217' post='43980'] Well I work for a telecom in the USA as a network analyst. I simply did a traceroute on the sunrise.net-7.org (btw should turn ICMP traffic off admin's) and was able to find the location of the server. Quite a few people that play on here are network people in general or have background in the computer industry. Btw is the game server it self down? [/quote] wow, i assumed the server was in the states.... Hosted in Germany, and registered by someone in the UK. Who would have thunk.

I am also a Sys Admin. I live in Cairns, Queensland, Australia and game run fine from here aswell. I wonder how many of the current players are IT guys and girls ?

[quote name='Crichton' timestamp='1312412379' post='43948'] I actually like the 'slower' tractor speed. It means that the Harpy device becomes much more necessary....not just for explorers.......which were the only class that used it in live. The other downside to very fast 'tractoring' is more ability for a single player to clear an ore spawn by themselves. Until the Devs get all the ore fields, especially the higher level ones, back to where they were in live this could negatively impact miners in general. [/quote] I would have to disagree. If you have two players in a field with slow tractor speed, and equalivent other skills and gear they get half each, if you speed up the tractor they both still get half each. Yes it means a solo player can clear a field and we used to be able to do that too. It just removes a bit of the time sink currently in the mining. The tractor beam used to be faster in live probably 50-75% faster, it takes so long to tractor an ore in that you dont bother starting to prospect the next item until the last ore is 90% of the way back to you or you drain your reactor waiting for the tractor beam to become available. Even with an increase tractor beam device it is still slower than live was The tractor speed used to be faster in the emulator as well when I played it 6 or 7 months ago iirc.

[quote name='Crichton' timestamp='1312412082' post='43945'] Good time to donate $5 bucks via paypal. We appear to be waaaay behind on the cost of keeping this emulator running. Would hate to see the server downtime increase due to that (not why it's down) so 'get err done!' [/quote] Donated 10 bucks... Not a lot but if everyone does 10 bucks every 6 months they will have more than enough money to keep this thing going through the testing phase. 1000 members x10 x2 they get 20k a year.... some decent servers and bandwidth can be purchased with that.

Is it just me or does the tractor beam seem too slow at the moment? I recall it being quite a bit quicker than it is in the current implimentation, and then faster again with the correct devices. Anyone else have the same thought? I think it could be sped up by about 50%.

[quote name='Terrell' timestamp='1312245197' post='43878'] I could live with it either way, on hulks. A few sprinkled in at random in orefields would be fine by me. Perhaps when they do yield space suits, they'd yield more to make up for fewer hulks. I do like the idea of a graveyard of ships, as far as high level hulks (L7+) is concerned, but I don't know if the client would allow what I have in mind. [list] [*]At most 3 on the server at any given time [*]Mostly in level apropraite areas. [*]In well hidden away locations [*]4-7 day respawn [*]Respawn when it occurs, will be hidden, somewhere else. [/list] If you hid such a thing in Lagarto, or a similar sized sector, it won't be easy to find, but won't be impossible either. Other sectors could quietly have their edges expanded (no dev announcment) to have more places to hide this, as well as hidden orefields. Most other hulks then would be like live, where you occasionally found one while mining in regular orefields, with some places having better chances than others. I do think that miners should find mining as rewarding as combat is for warriors. [/quote] I think that slightly larger zones with more hidden ore fields that happen in random location is a great idea. Also if you make the emptying of these fields worth more to make it more rewarding to find them it will give explorers a reason to explore again.

[quote name='Kyp' timestamp='1312134719' post='43835'] Sorry attached to your e-mail, I see only the two you have mentioned. [/quote] Wierd it will not let me register a third one, it just keeps telling me that the account is already activated and wont let me make my third login.

[quote name='Kyp' timestamp='1312037255' post='43812'] Whatever you used at www.net-7.org for registration and login is your game info. You can change the password but not the user names those have to match your user name here and so on for a validation. [/quote] Thank you for the reply, I knwo I can have 3 different game accounts registered against a forum accoutn and e-mail and I cannot remember what all three of them are. I have smallyoda and smallyoda2 and I am trying to figure out my other in game login and was hopign there was somewhere i could check.

Hello: I think i have registered all three of my game logins against this forum account but I dont know how to tell what they are. I was trying to make my third one but it keeps telling me my account is already verified. I know 2 of the 3 Is there someone where in accoutn setting you can see delete or change your login details for the various accounts? Cheers

My Friend who is a JE can also get through but my TT can not.... Anyone know which classes can go through and which can not??

I understand the fastest way to do this run is through inverness, and then black beards wake... I was also under the impression that anyone could get into bbw atm... But when i got to the gate it would not let me through... and then i got killed. Is there a requirment i am missing to travel to BBW, i am not friendly with the red dragon, is there a quest for this?