Net-7 Status - Partially Rebuilt

[larryh00ver]

On 3/26/2023 at 5:03 AM, Trickster said:

Hello everyone, Trickster here. I'm going on a little rant here, about what I feel when it comes to the game, and the community around it... but first, who am I?

I played when it was live, not awfully much, I do have a life IRL, but I loved the way the game was structured... no PVP, all working together against a known foe, space, mining, all the good stuff. And then it ended, too soon, if the amount of players online, playing the game, when the plug was pulled is any indication.

So that's very little about me, what about the devs, and other people, that JUST WOULDN'T WANT TO LET THE GAME GO TO THE GRAVE... that tirelessly work with the code, against the costs trying to keep it up for all of us?

We like playing the game, actually very much so, but when a group tries their hardest to do this, we see often this line "if you like what we do, and like playing the game, pls donate to help us continue giving you this great experience". Then most of us, suddenly goes blind, or thinking, when others donate I will too, or something to that effect.

Or, we see the small devoted fanbase, donating an arm and a leg, and we think, I cannot do those amounts, others seems to think that ONLY a few dollars, will not be enough. But strangely enough, when the game was live, we happily payed the subscription fees. And they were much higher.

 

Donations isn't about a happy FEW giving all they have, it never works like that, but instead plenty of us donating perhaps, 1 or 2 dollars (after fees), and then.... these fine wonderful people, that tirelessly giving their time to this community, wouldn't have any problems keeping the servers up, keeping the security updated (so evil people throwing ransomware cannot get at it), keeping the hardware working and up, for ALL OF US to enjoy, and they would love doing this, because they would see our caring response back to them. So, pls, don't be that person that finally gets it, when the servers have gone quiet, and the caring devs have moved on. Pls help us by donating, even a small amount helps, and we all can have this experience for maybe years to come. I at least hope so.

 

So, to all you devs and others who, behind the scenes pulling your hair, to get it up, and I hope I speak for the whole community, WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE what you do, so pls, take your time, do it right... we will be here when it's up again... I will anyway. 

 

Thx to all for listening, and have an absolutely fantastic day.

i like this alot, i am now "subscribed" to ENB 😛 ~20$ usd a month lol. cheers

[saevel]

On 3/27/2023 at 5:18 PM, Kyp said:

 

 

Appreciate the vote of confidence. Simply put, game is not gone away, nor will stay gone. It'd be nice to have all the skill sets we need at the ready but people move on, and as C Del says, sometimes those skills are hard to come by and the infrastructure behind all this is more complicated than would be expected but it's necessary to protect your data/accounts/game experience.

 

Right now it is as I last said, we're working through some differences with code to bring ourselves up to a current version of Microsoft's visual studio because we were using an older version for development and our code base is not currently compatible/able to be compiled and run. Once we solve those issues we should be able to bring the last stuff up including the dev and sunrise servers.

Wow, so this is all running on Windows servers?  I guess it's IDE is easier to use and all but just ouch.  Well hope all goes well and you guys can overcome the migrating a code base through a major version upgrade.

[Kyp [LDEV]]

2 hours ago, saevel said:

Wow, so this is all running on Windows servers?  I guess it's IDE is easier to use and all but just ouch.  Well hope all goes well and you guys can overcome the migrating a code base through a major version upgrade.

 

No but to be fair, there are plenty of situations where Windows is the right tool for the job, and others where a version of linux, freebsd or something entirely custom is the best approach.

That said we use both Windows and Linux, and a custom solution or two.

[TempestNWK]

long time since i visited the forum, but Oof..

 

Reading the first post, i imagine some sort of default tool allowed for unlocking of the database files?

 

Mad props for you and your crew Kyp, whilst sorting out this nightmare...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mieux]

Seeing the good vibes is awesome 😘

[lactra]

I am so thankfull to all the staff working on this KYP most of all. Thank you for all your work i miss E&B & hope to seeit up soon :)

[bryon3642]

Any Time frame available on the rebuild?

 

after having a major heart attack back in aug. i happen to have all sorts of time now to play and just recently found out about this.

[Kyp [LDEV]]

We are currently stuck with an issue where we're missing a dependency to build the server and are searching for what we need. We are inching ever closer to being able to bring things back up.

[Tashazar[IS]]

 Thank you for the update Kyp ,    

[taffy]

Thanks for letting us know Kyp 😊

[dreamer7]

Thx for the Update

[Defiant]

When the server comes back online and running good we should have a return event!!!

[Woodstock HGM [HGM]]

We Are planning a PRS Event Free for all Players  starting each raid one at a time 

 

[killercaan]

 

 

What exactly happened? Why is there no server? I was in the middle of moving for the last 3 months, I tried logging in for a week and it didn't work Greetings from Hungary

 

Edited April 5, 2023 by killercaan

[Woodstock HGM [HGM]]

The server provider got attacked which also took us offline, the devs are working diligently to bring a new server online  hopefully soon.

 

[RedKite [CDEV]]

Oldest version of VS I have found is 2017 but still looking

 

[JayHiking]

Would be happy to help.  Long time developer and VS user here.  Don't have contact info for Kyp and don't know if there is a chat or discord where I can come up to speed on the challenges...

[Dimitri]

Major bummer you guys got hit by idiot hackers.

Cool to see this was still going, good luck on the repairs!

 

So what is it you are trying to find? A certain version of Visual Studio install?

 

Peace!

D

 

[Woodstock HGM [HGM]]

I am not exactly sure of the issues slowing them down  all I know is what's posted in the server rebuilding thread '

[Terran_Trader]

Oldest version of VS I have found is 2005

[RedKite [CDEV]]

6 hours ago, Terran_Trader said:

Oldest version of VS I have found is 2005

The VS problem is resolved, Kyp is busy with another issue...Thanks for looking...

[Winlander]

Like JayHiking (above) I too would be happy to help if some extra hands are needed. I'm not much of a programmer (the wiki is more my speed), but if there's some necessary drudgery that needs doing that's been pushed aside by more high-level tasks, give me a shout, guys!

 

Best cheers & huge appreciation for all your dedication to ENB!

Edited April 6, 2023 by Winlander

[Ghostbane[IS]]

2 hours ago, RedKite said:

The VS problem is resolved, Kyp is busy with another issue...Thanks for looking...

A new error means progress!

[Shalia]

Y'all got any of that EnB??!

 

On a serious note, thanks for all the updates and all that you do to bring us back this wonderful game! Can't wait for the day when the server is up and running.  

[Dimitri]

7 hours ago, RedKite said:

The VS problem is resolved, Kyp is busy with another issue...Thanks for looking...

Great! just checked in here after much time and found you were having troubles. I used to have quite a few older VS versions on a backup drive, I think still somewhere. And VB6 ha.

Glad you are getting it figured. 👍

Stay well!

D