Kyp

Don't worry, my feelings don't hurt easily. It was the tone of your post that prompted my response in the same tone. Given that we give no representation or requirement that we're up 'most of the time' such as a profit business might, 9 hours is not all that long. Probably wouldn't have been that long even if I'd seen it last night before running out of steam, but I didn't.

I am not, and also have a home, family, and other life to maintain. Sometimes that means it stays down for a while. The code base isn't even in the same programming language as it was back then. Incidentally, if memory serves we didn't even get the multiplayer working properly until like 2010/2011, seeing as we only had about a year of 'beta' prior to going to 'sunrise' in 2012. It sounds like you might have been referring to the single player client we had, or the earliest versions of multiplayer, either way most of that code was in Java and none of it is Java now. Anyway, while I can appreciate the point of view, there are certainly other things to do for a few hours now and again. It's back up, btw.

Feel free to send a PM and discuss, I'll get back with you as quick as I can.

I'd uninstall/reinstall the net7 components. Sounds like something didn't get set that's expected to me at first glance/symptom reported.

Coming back up. Was out with the family, heading to bed soon. Still trying to figure out what's causing these sudden issues.

Should be coming back up now.

sorry yes, it is good to login again. I forgot to post back. no, the issue did not repeat after the last restart so continuing to monitor.

Finally free from work hours. Proceeding to look into the issue a bit, please DO NOT attempt to login during this time, I will let you all know when it is safe to try again. I'm attempting to capture some data, so attempted logins right now could pollute and complicate the issue.

Guess so can't spend several hours diagnosing right now.

I will take the server down and attempt to restart it and see if this resolves the behavior for now, sorry if I break anyone temporarily.

It does not appear to be from the server side, I see people changing sectors which requires that functionality each time (part of the gating mechanism). I can dump it again but if this keeps up it may have to stay down a while for it to get investigated properly. I am working now so that won't be until later in the day.

Restarted, should be back up momentarily.

Server was up, login server/comm server had crashed. Restarted it all, should be accessible in a moment. FYI there is a known issue where the Christmas missions may not be working right, this will be rectified soon and I'll leave it in place for a while after Christmas so everyone gets a chance for it.

I have a discord server already for the stuff, just haven't really sent it out because we had some developers who didn't want to use it at the time I set it up (it used to have some privacy/security related issues that have since been cleaned way up)

Back up, let me know if anyone experiences anything odd.

Yep that one's on me. I installed the updates and the servers restarted on their own, a new 'feature' of the OS to restart automatically in the absence of direction, I am guessing. Looking into it.

Ran outta time getting some stuff done, will be restarting in the AM when I can see it with a clear head.

History has shown (for the most part) that our population swells in the cold months and disappears in the warmer ones. I'd say it'll swell up soon, but there's probably a lot of people who are just waiting for something fresh to get added. Need to recruit some more content developer types for that.

There actually is, but I never opened it up further than just a few staff members. I think that may be the future of this and I'll post it here pretty soon, mainly to offload yet another function we don't really need to handle 'in-house'

I'll restart it later this evening before I go to settle down for bed, gives you all at least an hour longer or so.

Do that, but I guess what i'd say is weakest point presently is probably more content developers to write things up and basically create the missions, NPCs, personalities, etc /edit ... to me that is.

We're well aware. The client does not even support "special characters" at this point much less a modern passphrase. We can't change it. But @karu to see if he can look at what's there for Net-7.org tools and adjust appropriately.

Up again

The server itself did not crash. only the logon processes. Not sure what triggered that, but at any rate, I have taken the game server down for now as there are pending updates for the server itself, Going to install those and bring things back up to minimize any downtime. Ok sorry, things are coming back online now. I was indisposed when I got the message that there was an issue.

I believe it has been broken for some time, but I will double-check it soon. We mostly manage our issues within other systems if we see something get reported here that seems to be a bug. *edit* Yup, it seems to be a front-end display issue. I can still access the data from the admin panel but most of it is ancient issues that have been resolved for some time or something we couldn't resolve (or hidden on purpose because it was exploitable, of course) If you think there's a bug, submit a GM support ticket (or post it here). If the GM during resolution of your issue can follow your steps and run into a similar problem they will report it or transfer the GM ticket to me which will result in it getting into something for an eventual resolution.