Kyp

I have rebuilt it, we have the technology. It's alive(ish) again. Should be back to normal shortly.

k maintenance should be done, other than an update to the forum which I don't know if i'll do tonight. Things should be back up.

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Yes, this evening for sure.

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.

BUG ENB-231 has been opened to track.

I'd put this on our tracker. Let me also add something to add a means for you guys to report bugs we use different software for tracking activities like those now.

I'll only say that characterization of what I'm saying is different than what I mean. Do you have evidence that something like that happened, or are you just stating it because of the way something worked out? All i've done so far is read this thread, and it looks like an allegation, and a fight over some loot. Something we should all be familiar with from the live game and from other games. My anecdotal references were to blatant and OBVIOUS abuse of power once it was uncovered. Every time a GM creates an item, it's tagged. Every time they utilize their powers to do something a normal player cannot do, it's also tagged. Given that Woody has been HGM as long as he has, and he's practically the only game master, it gives me pause on considering this likely. I'm willing to accept something and look into it, as I always have been. That said, time is more precious now than when I was in college and my only worries were studying, so having my chain yanked and having to spend that kinda time to track something down and find nothing is probably going to annoy me a little. Suppose you feel sure that something is going on and have something besides vinegar for each other, PM me. Please don't make me waste time on squabbles.

I will throw out here for those reading that 'castanet' is tied into the updating software they used in the past, it is installed with the game (I think, or at least the demo), and will not affect whether someone could log in. The game will for sure also run on Windows 11 just fine. Although with each new OS rev, it is getting trickier because the game does not observe modern security standards, and because EA has never released the code for the client, we're technically doing wrong if we start reverse engineering it too much. https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/castanet/

I'm going to break this down since there's a suggestion of an abuse of power. An Abuse of power would be like something we had back in the beta days, where a GM created a ton of loot for someone they were friends with, with no risk/events run to earn it. Or like a past dev we had that created an absolute shitton of mineable asteroids in a location that wasn't easy to find if you didn't know about it. We discovered this after the sheer number of roids caused it to impact the sector's performance. That became apparent from the logs, and that person was removed, which led to us adding a tag when a GM creates an item that we can see, which will tell us if they're doing bad things or creating a lot of items. A GM deciding to transfer a piece of loot is reasonable to me as long as they've heard everyone's side involved first. They call them game masters for a reason. They are allowed to do anything except directly abuse players/break the code of conduct, shut down the game server, or run dev-level commands that are beyond them. I would also note that this isn't just something we would generally do because a player requested it, and this person is no different, presumably. It also leaves a trail as above, so I would be able to trace a pattern if I had to. This being said, you all have the option to ignore each other if the dislike is that intense; this shouldn't require a staff intervention in terms of banning someone based on what I'm seeing here. Still, I would also point out that we keep notes on folks' accounts when things are reported, so we can get an accurate idea of what people are doing and whether they deserve it. Since it's such a relatively small community and no one pays subs or gets paid (on the 'staff' side), we give quite a lot more leeway when it comes to basic infractions. For someone to be banned, they must have a serious history, and even then, it's usually a temporary ban; we don't permanently ban anyone without a compelling reason. Lot of words short to say, if someone wants to explain to me why the GM giving loot was an abuse, then i'm happy to hear it, but I can only read so much of this thread cause it's mostly attacks against each other and I'm not going to crawl back to ancient logs (2+ weeks) to try to figure out who's being untruthful and who isn't. If someone has gathered the trigger, for the most part, I would agree that they should get the say on where the loot goes. For a situation where things have been agreed upon up front and by all attendees, if you feel like some ninja looting went down, then you can try to handle it among yourselves or open a ticket where we can look into it. I would warn you that, because staff time is limited, this option may mean a wait and not instant service. I would also warn several of you reading this thread that you need to be sure you're familiar with the rules, as these forums still qualify to be under them. You can communicate somewhat like adults, I'm sure.

All done.

Will restart with new cert after work but had not been hearing from others (at this point). Still going on?

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.

Ok I'll try a full on maintenance either tonight or this weekend as time permits it. We'll see if this remediates it. Is it always specific sectors? The game server restart would usually fix something like that because it reloads everything from the database on start up.

proactively restarted it, did not see anything unusual, only person that responded in game said something about hiccups but nobody else replied to confirm an issue. We'll see if that makes it better in this scenario.