Lets break this message down...

**We have taken the server offline again.

-- Yeah no ****, we knew you would. The new code is a cluster f*ck of B.S.



**Upon opening up the site at 20:34 GMT this evening it was innundated with traffic.


-- Yeah no ****, everyone with half a brain would be logging on.




**We need to assess whether this was from scripted bots, whether it was malicious or whether it was simply due to high demand from players.

-- Bots- potential problem, meaning it was down for 3 days and your "fix" did jack ****. Also meaning you really didn't do ANYTHING the entire time it was down, besides play with your dinghy's of course. Then bring the site back up and shut it down because it was slow due to your own incompetence. The site only came up so that you could "pretend" to show the community you can at least do something right.

-- Demand- Obvious problem, which should HOPEFULLY take no longer than a day, like you claim, to figure out. But knowing you, you'll play with your dinghy for half the day, and it will be pushed back AGAIN.



**We do not expect to open up the server again this evening. We will update again in the morning.


-- Do we ever expect you to follow up with us in a timely matter, and if it is, is it ever done correctly or flawless? No.

Their Cray2 is way too old for this.
We should start a fund, so they can be given the cash necessary to upgrade their hardware to something a bit more modern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA10

no way....i will only fund it if we have a better programmer..

CLUSTER ****.

One of the greatest descriptive terms of our time :)

Just wanted to throw a note in there, - Because the new "live time" was not as scheduled as a normal utopia age start would be, it is my assumption that there would be less people logging on at the live time you created than the normal live time. So, if the server was overloaded by demand the server would have to be far worse than it used to be. So that doesn't really make sense unless you've downgraded the server.

I think the question is- what are other sites doing to parry bots?

JD - fact is, when it went up, first player to notice sent an alert to the whole KD, and those of us around tried to log in, I expect many other KD's did something similar

That was never a problem on the 'old code.'

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CLUSTER ****.

One of the greatest descriptive terms of our time :)

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Nuff said there....

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CLUSTER ****.

One of the greatest descriptive terms of our time :)

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Nah. That doesn't even begin to cover this.

Dracoa it is a very good start. How about:

It is a plethora of cluster ****s?

same with my kd i was first in and sent messages out , had half the kd try to login , some of us got army trained and spells on , but that was about it. rest were unlucky

Mad Scottish: I think that begins to cover it, but comes no where near fully doing so.

Deb, same with me mate. I got 14 guys in, before game went down again.

most of our players that hadn't given up on the game were in our chat room so as soon as one of us got in, seconds later, we were all furiously working. lmao!

could it possibly be high demand??? naaah, that doesn't even make sense. Especially when you look at all the new threads that popped up immediately following the latest crash!

The server(s) used to handle 50,000 players at OOP and only went down for minutes or at most hours at a time only to recover when player logins slowed. We now have 1/5 of that and it can't last for more than 5 minutes?

it is clearly high demand. Problem is what causes the game to perform so poorly that 1000 people causes it to fail. Coding error is much more likely then a hardware problem VT2 is just nub

and wtf is this:

"there is now a cap on how many individual batches of troops you can have in training at any one time. There's a similar new limit on the other schedules, e.g., learning and exploring."

Next step is let us only read the site.. do nothing.. so it doesn't crush..

Better down than with these stupid limits.

"game down at each hour change"

WTF have you been doing all this time ? You said you had this thing with ticking figured out... this is how it's gonna be ??

Clearly, computing and programming is a lot harder than we think.
That, or OMAC fails harder than diamonds.

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Just wanted to throw a note in there, - Because the new "live time" was not as scheduled as a normal utopia age start would be, it is my assumption that there would be less people logging on at the live time you created than the normal live time. So, if the server was overloaded by demand the server would have to be far worse than it used to be. So that doesn't really make sense unless you've downgraded the server.

I think the question is- what are other sites doing to parry bots?

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Exactly.

How do bots get in? Are they reliant on creating new accounts? If so, temporarily freeze new accts might work.

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Are they going to assess high login every startup? Got 11k players left atm. How many peeps playing UT will have to remain b4 the log in is no longer high & they feel free to stop assessing?

I took Pc programming up to grade 12 in highschool. This game is pretty basic ****! A bunch of *if's Ors, And's Then's* and you got yourself a Utopia game..... with Animation!

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JD - fact is, when it went up, first player to notice sent an alert to the whole KD, and those of us around tried to log in, I expect many other KD's did something similar

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And people that were not expecting to log on may or may not have logged in.

My point was not to suggest a % difference, just state that it is more likely it is not a server issue unless theyve downgraded something and unless you believe that people msging people who can receive msgs/were around/could come on/were awake/were available/even communicating created more traffic than the usual scheduled start, I believe my point is still valid.

No hostility inteded

...Upon opening up the site at 20:34 GMT this evening it was innundated with traffic.

I know the reason behind this! It's adds! They need the multiple logins every few moments so that they can tell the advertisers that activity is just GRAND, even before the game is running!


I can write this code from my Commodore 64 which I just got out of storage to show my kid how I programmed way back when I converted the IBM Waterloo Basic to Commodore basic for school and work! CPM at 2MHZ burst when the screen was turned off!
The 128D! WOW!

I wonder if they need another 300baud modem. I have a few.
I remember going to the CB rooms talking to people in China for $6.95 an hour and swaping board game codes! Yeah BABY!

Hey, I have a Simon's Basic card in my large Floppy case if they need it too! Lots of color stuff in there!
We need to assess whether this was from scripted bots, whether it was malicious or whether it was simply due to high demand from players.
We do not expect to open up the server again this evening. We will update again in the morning.

Clearly the game would be "innundated" if you took it offline for so long? What to they expect? It boogles the mind, honestly.

The next time they put it back online, its going to be "innundated" again. You should pay be a consult for for telling you that.

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and wtf is this:

"there is now a cap on how many individual batches of troops you can have in training at any one time. There's a similar new limit on the other schedules, e.g., learning and exploring."

Next step is let us only read the site.. do nothing.. so it doesn't crush..

Better down than with these stupid limits.

"game down at each hour change"

WTF have you been doing all this time ? You said you had this thing with ticking figured out... this is how it's gonna be ??

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they claim they have figured out..but i doubt it..more or less they're pretending they have figured it out to cover up the **** out of this..we're leaving this ****ing ****..who cares about utopia anymore,or loyalty to the game where in OMAC dont really care about this game actually..


enough bull**** already!!this is far way enough..might as well say in the future games OMAC will be handling we'll know it will be as **** as this or rather worst than this..

**** the funding..if they want their investment to gain then make this ****ing game playable and competitive again morons!and not a series of ****ing whole time record of downtime!!who would want to play in a game that goes down every single day?retards..

new codes?! *spits* who cares about your whole damn new code who doesnt even work for 12 hours..


just an advice go back to school and learn..