Ghinn

Okay, cool. As long as I'm not the only one. Just hope it gets fixed before I start to go through withdrawals...

Just like the title says, I can log in without problems. I get taken to the character select screen, and I choose a character, but then I get a "server failed to respond to sector login" error. I tried three different accounts and two different computers, and I can't get in on any of them. I can access the N7 site just fine, and when I start the launcher the server shows up as online, but I can't get in. Any ideas?   Also, for the last few weeks, the launcher has taken a fairly long time to load. It starts up quickly enough, but all the buttons are greyed out and it hangs on "checking updates for Net-7" for way longer than it used to before everything pops up and I can hit play (once I hit play, everything proceeds at the expected speed). Not sure if that has anything to do with it (as I've been able to play fine this whole time), but I thought it was worth mentioning.   Any help/suggestions are appreciated. I've turned off IPv6, which made the game run great, and I don't have any of the checksum settings on my network adapter. I'm on wi-fi, but that hasn't been a problem this whole time, and I'm running Win7 Pro 32-bit.

The big problem with the manes in Glenn is that Glenn was always a safe mining spot, in a galaxy full of dangerous ones. Different people mine in different ways, and there are PLENTY of places where being discreet and fast are necessary. That was never the case in Glenn. GP-X18 was a safe field, where one could whittle away a few hours casually mining. The fact that the rocks around there were cherry picked means that people aren't sticking around anymore because of the manes. They're getting what they need and high-tailing it out of there. With guardians like that, you're gonna see more and more of that happening. I just tried to mine there and three manes started heading right towards me, extremely fast. It's no longer a casual mining area, and I maintain that a show of force like that is completely unwarranted. Why not just permaban the IPs of people who are caught and call it a day? I can't imagine that there are so many people botting that it will have any actual effect on the game, but if that's where you want to concentrate your efforts, punish them, not the people who actually enjoy playing. I'm not a powerminer. I don't pull exclusively high-lv ore. I can't defend myself against anything stronger than the L12 moles around GP-X30. I just like relaxing and clicking the pretty rocks, and I can no longer do that without fear.

Up until last night, I've been using Glenn (specifically the asteroid ring around nav Asteroid GP-X18) as a safe ore field. I'd go there to relax, mine some ore, and watch something (usually The Simpsons or Futurama) on a secondary monitor. It was a zen experience. I'd get some XP, get some ore to sell, watch some stuff. It was great. Now, there are a half dozen L45 manes hanging around there, and I can't peacefully mine there. I understand the need to curb botting and macro mining, but is this really the way to do it? I thought that that's what poprocks were for. Sometimes I'll accidentally open one, and a L41 nasty will pop out, and make me stay away from that field for a while. The roids around GP-X21 have nothing around them, and GP-X30 has L12 Abnormal Moles. While they wouldn't be a match for an actual player, a botter or a macro miner would have a hard time pulling ore with a bunch of those guys ganging up on him. Were those L45 manes absolutely necessary? I would mine there and use the proceeds from that to fund my builder's analyses, and I can't do that any more. Glenn is supposed to be a safe area (at least, in the game's canon). It's for pleasure cruises and gambling. The most dangerous stuff is the Chavez base near nav Glenn 6, and they only go up to L28. I really think that a half dozen L45 manes are overkill, especially considering the fact that I've never seen a botter or a macro miner at this particular field, and aside from the odd L8 rock, it's mostly L5-7 ores. Nothing that warrants the kind of force applied. I'm all for banning botters and unattended macro miners, but for a mid-lv field like the ones around GP-X18, it seems like too much. You've taken my zen haven and turned it into a deathtrap. With all the actual issues that need dealing with in this game (the gate crashes and warp issues, not to mention the terminals freezing and eating items), is dropping massive monsters in a peaceful field really a priority? You also moved the Sharim Archaeologists. What purpose did that serve? I liked mining with them around, wondering what it was they were researching. Maybe they were looking for the missing link, and it was in one of the rocks I was kerploding. I just wanted to lodge a formal complaint about the placement of those manes. I don't expect this post to actually change anything, but it would be nice to be able to peacefully mine at my favorite ore field without having to do the touch-and-go mining that's usually reserved for sectors that are actually supposed to be dangerous...

Haha. The mental image of a horse munching on a powercord is great. Thanks for that.

[quote name='Crowey' timestamp='1355213673' post='68690'] Didnt you know sleep got abbolished as soon as EnB went LIVE [/quote] Well, yeah. That's why these sever outages have been great. They tell me when it's time to stop. As they get fewer and farther between, so will my periods of sleep, which is probably detrimental to my health in some way.

Damn, restarting. And here I thought I'd actually get to sleep at a reasonable time...

At least now I don't have wait for a logical stopping point to go on a coffee run. If you guys could have it back up by the time I get back, that'd be great. kthxbye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk

As an IT guy, I have to ask... Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Yeah, even though Draclina has put forth a really plausible-sounding explanation, getting some reply from the folks in charge would be cool. Even if it's just "we have no idea what's going on, but we're looking into it."

At least when the server's completely borked, nobody can get on. Seeing the online count go up and down when I can't even get past the character selection screen is torture.

[quote name='Zerra' timestamp='1354510239' post='67800'] Any idea when the server will be back up? [/quote] Just as soon as they're done winding the rubber band back up.

[quote name='Spektyr' timestamp='1298562963' post='35076'] Glad I could help. I've been really enjoying being able to play again. I consider the guides public domain now so you can publish them however you like. I've also got the Atlas and the Credits Guide that I can't upload due to size restrictions. [/quote] You can upload it to a free filehost like mediafire, and then just post the link. Mediafire is actually pretty good. 100mb maximum filesize, but unlimited downloads. I'd actually really like to take a look at your atlas. I've been using random map printouts that I found online, but I'd love to have a cohesive atlas.

Working for me!

C-Del is aware of the problem and is looking into it. Keep an eye on the Server Status thread for updates: https://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?/topic/1435-server-status/page__st__1640__gopid__36466#entry36466

I'd like to add that I've found a way to unlock the mouse from the EnB window without alt-tabbing. If you're locked in the window, and you move the mouse quickly towards one of the borders, you might see it show up outside the EnB window temporarily. If you move it quickly, and press one of the buttons when the cursor is outside the EnB window, it unlocks the mouse. If you're running two (or more) instances of the client at once, you can put them side by side, and once you get the hang of it, you can switch back and forth pretty easily. I figured this out completely by accident. I was right-clicking to move my ship, but I was too close to the window border, and I kept getting the normal right-click menu as though I were right-clicking in a blank spot on the desktop. I played around with it for a little while, until I found that it worked with right clicking too.

And it's not like it's an isolated problem. There are at least two threads about it in the tech support forum, and a whole mess of people have posted about it here. I really hope they take notice and do what needs to be done, or at least let us know that they're aware of the problem. I gotsta get my trade run on.

So has anybody heard from any of the devs? Are they going to reboot the login server, or whatever it is they have to do so that we can log in again? I feel like a junkie without his fix...

I'm having the same problem. Getting the INV-300 error whenever I try to log in. Net-7 says that there are over a hundred people playing, so I wonder what the problem is...

[quote name='C Del' timestamp='1299390161' post='35813'] That sucks. It might be a case of throttling to the extreme. Many ISPs (especially the super-high bandwidth ones like FiOS) will give you the advertised bandwidth for a few minutes, then throttle you back to something much less impressive. (evil marketing tactics) [/quote] I'm pretty sure it's not throttling since it works fine for some sites, and torrents can reach crazy speeds. I think the modem is old and needs to be replaced. I've had it for a number of years. I'm also considering putting DD-WRT on my router, to see if that makes it work any better, since it might also be a problem with the router.

[quote name='C Del' timestamp='1299379924' post='35805'] Any info you have on what was going wrong with her downloads might help us fix it (if it is a problem on our end). [/quote] I think it's similar to a problem I've been having, wherein I can only download things a little bit at a time. I have to constantly stop and restart downloads, no matter where I'm getting them from. I don't think it's endemic to Net-7. Even though I have trouble downloading direct from sites, torrents tend to work great for me. It's weird. We have the same ISP, so I'm assuming we're both victims of poor service.

Like the title says, I made a torrent for a friend of mine. She was having trouble downloading the files from net-7 for some reason, and this seemed like the best way to help her out. That being said, my upload speed is atrocious, so it'd take hours and hours for her to get the files. If you're interested in helping to seed, the torrent can be found here: http://h1.ripway.com/Ghinn/Earth%20%20Beyond%20Emulator.torrent I just have the three files needed in a folder called Earth & Beyond Emulator. I also cleaned up the title of the net-7 launcher, so the folder contents look like this: eandb_demo.exe enb_up.exe net7setup.exe The main thing is the EnB demo, so if you only decide to host that, that'd be fine. I appreciate your help, as does my friend. Also, feel free to download the torrent yourself if you need it, but be warned that my upload speed is awful. Also also, please don't post this torrent anywhere else. Thanks.

Well, I managed to get Windows 95 running, but it was a Russian version, because that's what the program came with. I've since had to send my phone back because of an unrelated problem, and now the new one is acting up, so I might have to return that one, too. Once I get a stable phone, I'm going to install an English version of Win98, and see if I can install EnB. Will post any updates. In the meantime, What are the lowest specs you guys have been able to run the emu on so far? @Slayerman: Those are the specs for the original game. Once I got the idea in my head, I checked the retail box just to confirm that the game could be run on Windows 98. My phone meets (and exceeds) all the requirements as far as memory and processor speed. Since Windows can run, I assume it can emulate the architecture well enough to be able to run Windows apps, but I won't know for sure until I get it set up properly on my phone. Like I said in the first post, I don't know if I can access the data connection, and now C Del has me worried about DirectX. I know the phone supports 3D, as there are a number of 3D games out for it, but I don't know if the Windows emulator will be able to work with that. We'll see.

That's what I was afraid of. I'll still give it a shot, see if it can be done.