Kyp

Hi folks, I'm reaching out to let everyone know that we will be undergoing some major upgrades to the forum software... mostly because the vendor is discontinuing this branch at the end of the year and only providing security updates until then. Part of this upgrade is going to change something for how you guys can get in here at the forums. I am going to give it 7 days from the time of this message, and then test it, but ultimately, to keep it short and sweet, you're no longer going to be able to log in with your Account Display Name. For whatever reason, they decided to get rid of this in the next version. I do not believe this is going to impact the game or any other logins, but we'll cross those bridges when we come to them. I just wanted to give you the time to confirm your own email addresses for your accounts here, since they are tied to your game accounts currently. So get ready, next Sunday I will flip this over so that the current software no longer supports a login via just your name like me entering 'Kyp' but instead your e-mail address and the same password.

Recently, it's mostly just me keeping things safe, running, and the GMs managing the game. Want to get some more down these paths, but right now there's not enough time in the day (for me, at least). We have been doing some toying around with some potential new tools and using AI to help identify some places that could improve some of these long-standing issues. No containerization or anything just yet, though. I have an ambition to eventually release that so that others can try to run their own instances but there would be some prep work to set up what I was describing.

Sorry folks, it is what it is, like I said, as Guest me up there, long work night, and it totally slipped my mind after even letting the discord know earlier in the day that it would be coming, and seeing the GMs made a post for me. in Unfortunately, the kind of place I work, lighting up a VPN would cause legal problems my life probably does not need.

Should be fine now, otherwise i'd recommend taking a vid or series of screenshots as you're walking through the startup and the message being presented (if any).

O ye of little faith. It's up.

Yes alive,

My default first guess is that you havent set the path right assuming you set up and linked the account on net7.org and it is attempting to auth with EAs servers that have been offline for 23 years.

yup, someone just has to grant you the role when you're on for you to be a permanent member. I have not yet purchased any kind of chat management bot, thinking about writing one custom for us, which was the original reason I didn't make it available right away. Life's just been a little overwhelming for a while.

You can message me to discuss skill sets as far as all of that goes. Please note that work keeps me busy, so sometimes a day or two to respond is normal. That said, there's not a ton of technical changes to make at the present because we need more in the way of folks that can write content and missions and have the time to do it. All the technical changes at this point are almost universally driven by content developer ideas or the need for tools to implement those ideas.

I have one I never really made public, planned to be official. But for no,w it's ok to just be out there, I suppose. Nothing wrong with everyone having their own, less for maintenance If people want to join that one in the short term. https://discord.gg/AJ4AKFe should be it. Woody you're already a member and have rights by appearances.

It appears that most of the links were on a site at *.bothouse.com that is either down or blocking. I disabled those links. I'll check for the official link but I'm pretty sure my universal installer -aged as it currently is- already applies the file that is at the end of that link.

Ok I went ahead and took care of the stuff that was going to require me to take it down later, since it was already down. It should be coming back now.

Well, it wasn't supposed to be down yet, it decided to do that on its own while I was sleeping. I am attempting to resuscitate now. CLEAR!

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.

Every dollar counts to keep the infrastructure going. I spend what spare time I can keeping it all up to date. Content sometimes takes a while to plan out. We do have some of the source materials that were planned for the game, but the best way to describe it, if you've never looked at it, is a ton of disconnected ideas. It is something like a haystack of different periods of time and NPC/faction progressions. I'd like to see that, as we also have some tech things we'd like to improve, but I think programming a whole new client is something that would take time and energy I don't know that the existing staff has. We'd need a lot more hands in the technical department.