Olan
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Post by Olan on Mar 5, 2003 22:37:21 GMT -5
Due to Network problems and a stuborn firewall you can not play EO unless your sitting in my office. Since all of you can't fit in this office EO is being Shut Down. We may or may not return. Empires Online will be taken of the default server list on next release. All Maps and other Data will be saved in the event I get it working. The new server box that was purchased for EO will remain unused intill EO goes back up.
As far as our forums go, I have no plans or host to run a Forum. If someone would like to take it apon themselfs to set up a forums go right ahead. I would like to thank everyone for your continued support of Empires Online and First Star Online.
P.S. Please do not send me emails asking for your dat files. I do not have the time to send everyones so I will do no ones.
From admin on EO
Don't even know what to say other than ^%&*. Should we move to a different server?
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Post by Swordmasterdragoon on Mar 5, 2003 22:40:53 GMT -5
damnit and I just got the game to start working and now they shut down. Well now what server are we going to go to.
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Post by Swordmasterdragoon on Mar 5, 2003 23:28:09 GMT -5
woah that game looks really cool Crono. maybe after free up some space on this computer I'll play it and after they translate.
EDIT: So were moving to the H2O server?
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Post by Swordmasterdragoon on Mar 6, 2003 0:03:14 GMT -5
yea are still on Crono?
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Post by OldSchool on Mar 6, 2003 13:06:33 GMT -5
Well, thats it, I told myself if EO goes down, im done with FSO, and so it seems, after ALL THOSE GOD DAMN HOURS OF FSO its all gone to waste...and then not giving us out dat files...what a bunch of gay $&&#&#()@#*)@*#)!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Mar 6, 2003 13:30:19 GMT -5
Well it is like playing a game Oldy. Once you finish it you are done. I think I logged in around 30 hours max. Anyway I am moving to h2o so see yall there. Hey look on the bright side that we didnt play any longer on that server. Think about the guys that have played it for a long ass time.
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Post by Sokar468 on Mar 6, 2003 14:58:03 GMT -5
Well, OldSchool, expect to make compromises when using anything that's free. It's a lesson of life.
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Mar 6, 2003 16:20:35 GMT -5
GUYS DO NOT START A CHARACTER ON H2O YET! They are going to do a character wipe soon in order to open new maps and have everyone start them together. Check the message board at www.projecth2o.com. |
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mech
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Post by mech on Mar 6, 2003 16:58:54 GMT -5
Aww man. EO was gret. I don't think I'm going to play FSO anymore now, but I didn't play it too much anyway..
Hopefully Tristin can get it to work, that game (on EO) is awesome.
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Olan
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Post by Olan on Mar 6, 2003 20:51:03 GMT -5
GUYS DO NOT START A CHARACTER ON H2O YET! They are going to do a character wipe soon in order to open new maps and have everyone start them together. Check the message board at www.projecth2o.com. Uh oh, well don't spend too much time leveling. Thanks for the info, i almost started a character. |
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Mar 6, 2003 20:53:29 GMT -5
Olan sent Tristin the following message to see if he could help out:
Olan The Second: Well I sincerely hope this information will help you, and I haven't just wasted your time. From a short analysis of fso, it seems that the server runs on port 1144, and stays binded to that port without using others. (of course, server admins would probably know more about which port the server runs on, but from the short time I've looked at it, port 1144 seems to be the only server port used.) You'd need to allow port 1144 requests from all ip addresses to go through your firewall, and establish a rule so that outgoing requests from your fso server ip (probably a 192.168.something.something number) that come from source port 1144 are allowed to go through the firewall. Your documentation/manual/help resources for your firewall should tell you how to establish rules. I'm only familiar with linux firewalls myself, but I could try to look up the info if you told me that firewall you're using.
Olan The Second: If you'd rather not release that info, that's fine, just wanted to offer.
As for the router, you have to forward all port 1144 requests (or whatever port your fso server happens to run on) to your server. Again, the documentation for the router should tell you how, and if you tell me the make and model I could try to find it for you.
Olan The Second: I might be oversimplifying the problem since I don't know any of the details of the errors, and your setup. Your reference guide should tell you how to forward ports, and set up firewall rules. You'll probably have to log into your router (type in its ip address into a web browser [probably 192.168.0.1] and enter your user name and password [default are probably user=admin, pass=password] once you've logged in, you just change the settings you want) Well I hope some of this helped you, and if not, I'd suggest asking other server admins, who have more than likely encountered similar problems, and their solution might work for you.
~Olan (ShadowFox on your fso server)
Hopefully it will help get our beloved game back online.
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Olan
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Post by Olan on Mar 6, 2003 21:21:14 GMT -5
Great, there goes my level 37 fighter I created 2 weeks ago..... Ohh that's bad. And the fso admins plan to make their own server! We've been tossing around the idea of opening our own server for awhile. Recent downtimes (and closures as it would have it) have also made us set on this decision. It was prompted by spending a little too much time on the former default server and just being utterly disappointed. We feel that if FSO is to develop further then there has to be atleast one server that is built and maintained by us. Surely you will agree that this is the best thing that could happen to FSO.
This is one of the "big things are coming" that Slim and I have kept mentioning over the last month.. but with EO closing and hoardes losing faith and flocking away we decided maybe it's not best to wait and surprise people with it, maybe we should let them know it's coming and return faith to the game.
So anyway.. yeah.. we'll have a server operated and built by FSO staff. Who better than Slim to build the vision of what his game is suppose to be? He will utilize every feature in the game and build you all the best world possible. It's his game... he knows it better than anyone.
Being able to play on a server operated by FSO staff also will give you a bit more security where your characters are concerned. This game is still in beta and things do happen but I assure you we would never just yank it out from under you without warning. It is Slim's game and he would not do anything to harm it. That also means we will go out of our way to assure that no downtimes occur. Things like that do happen but we will take every precaution to avoid it.
This server will be run on a dedicated machine and hopefully it will be opening sometime soon.
As someone once said, if you want things done right you have to do it yourself.. in this instance, if we want reliability and longevity then we positively have to do it ourselves. It is our only surefire guarantee as Tristin just proved.
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Post by Swordmasterdragoon on Mar 6, 2003 22:02:03 GMT -5
GUYS DO NOT START A CHARACTER ON H2O YET! They are going to do a character wipe soon in order to open new maps and have everyone start them together. Check the message board at www.projecth2o.com. Well I'm glad I didn't do much yet. |
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Post by AlexH2O on Mar 6, 2003 22:32:11 GMT -5
I have to resolve some misconceptions here. I'm the administrator of H2O btw... I don't want my wipe to be just another stupid wipe where people aren't compensated for the hard work they have done. As a result, there will be items of compensation handed out for scores of 900+, 1200+, 1500+, and 1800+ that will really affect you in the new mapset, saving you up to 40,000 gold. That's a lot. Futhermore, you'll be able to learn the way my admins and I handle things. Believe me when I say that this is a great time for H2O... and you still have time before the wipe. We don't even know when the wipe will be yet!!! Give us a try.
- Alex
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Mar 7, 2003 23:05:25 GMT -5
I am glad you came by here! I like your server and I think it is good, but my character isn't even close to 300 points. The thing is that all of us started on EO and our guys are around 80hp. We are trying to form a guild on it now that it is back up. We are partial to EO since it was our first and find your server second best. I played on there the other week through the FSO panic. Well I hope you post more around here and tell us your ingame name.
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