Kyp

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.

All sounds great, as it is, there aren't enough developers to truly support that kind of effort, whether we wanted to or not. Just as an aside, I only come under this forum category once in a great while; had it not been for the fact that I'd replied here, I probably wouldn't have seen it for a while. Throwing it into a new engine and all that would likely put us within the legal scope of EA until or unless they decide to release the code for this game. Who knows, maybe I'll try writing a letter and see if I get anywhere. I know the last time we tried seriously reaching out, it was rebuffed. As far as content goes, you haven't seen a lot in the last few years, but 10 is a bit of a stretch. That is assuming you are saying what I think you are. There's a patch note with content that got released in '22. For the last several years, we (read: probably mostly me) have had some things going on that rose far above the level of volunteering to advance the game. Early '22, my mom passed, I had to deal with her life and wrap up carrying into '23, and since then, I've been in an ever-present struggle to fix my own health and try to get my house in shape, but that's been hard, especially lately, now that everybody thinks the office is where everyone wants to be. If you were only referring to the technology and the client, then yeah most of that hasn't needed to have changes in quite some time because most of what we're missing is content in terms of 'patches'.

Yeah I would agree with that, anything open source supported and free is best if we can get something to edit those of that sort. We were considering trying to do something with the renegade code a little while back but hadn't actually cracked into it yet but we knew EA had released. We wanted to see if we could get it to work to let us update this stuff more natively, anyway.

Restarted it.

Give a better screenshot of all settings in the Launcher when it is loaded up, please. This almost looks like you've got it set for local IP, but have not set the certificate (and/or your computer is not listening to 443 requests)

and I'll be the second to say once you get everything installed, you'll have all the w3ds, these are deployed local to the game client and are patched if/when we make changes that require it. I will say that C&C ties into assets for this game, but I'm not 100% it's Renegade, It could be Tiberium Sun as well. At any rate, I'd be interested to know more, as we've always been limited for what we could do with graphics as a result of not having original tools or original server source code (all that stuff is self-created and/or reverse engineered to the best of our abilities)

I think (?) it's fixed now?