Heya Badman,
Thanks for the reply, but although I am losing quite a lot members and visitors… It’s down for 3weeks now, I cannot really understand this error lasts for 3weeks already… + It also would be awesome to get a time for when it will be online again, so I can give my members some hope and the will to stay into my Community…
Hope you are able to answer my questions, they could be tough though.
Thanks,
Reno “Tankey”
Thanks for this information. We have been wondering whether or not to shut down (don’t laugh). Not much point in running near-empty ET servers when there are many other games we could be participating in.
Good news, even if it just says they’re keep trying 
If so I’m wondering how it was running before…
Depends if they’re using Valve time; In this case it will be quick.
Sorry to be silly, but as said Tankey we are nearby a month… But not sure you’re loosing people everyday, because you’ve lost them 3 weeks ago in fact.
Hope is only thing at the moment, but ET will/has lost much people. It’s sad but the truth and if you ask me, was it not needed.
Yes, we’re losing people every day - those who download game, check it and see no servers. There are no newcomers at all.
And for those who are asking when it will be finished - don’t expect anything, I’m sure it won’t be done fast. Just look how long did it took them to receive message about master server - over 1 week. So I’ll be ‘happy’ if they’ll finish it before March.
The ones who download the game are lucky if they are aware of a patch or two, have compatibility troubles, have troubles with PB, etc etc.
There’s a lot of repacks of course, and thanks to SD they’ve set the Master Server List issue in News, but the Barracks are just showing original 2.55 + patches, and ETXReaL.
[QUOTE=Destroy666;392874]Yes, we’re losing people every day - those who download game, check it and see no servers. There are no newcomers at all.
And for those who are asking when it will be finished - don’t expect anything, I’m sure it won’t be done fast. Just look how long did it took them to receive message about master server - over 1 week. So I’ll be ‘happy’ if they’ll finish it before March.[/QUOTE]
If it will take so long, we can say: They facked things up x)
I know Diabolik because the first server of my old clan back in 2006 was in my favs in Xfire, and one day the IP was refreshed: Diabolik server x)
lol excellent xD probably first server at YCN … now I’ve stopped my server and we share another server with another french-team
But really, if masterserver comes back, I re-open my BLACKOPS one (silentmod), it was popular beginners server (not full but 15/20 players on afternoon). I’ve stopped it on 30/01, and my actual hoster lets me until 1st March before deleting my account …
Perhaps you have some inside information you could share with us? Your tone is so condescending. Not sure you are aware of it.
You’re right, ET isn’t going away as long as there are admins willing to run empty servers full of bots on their home computers.
There are a dozen other games I could be hosting instead, and having clarity on the situation is really the only thing I want. If it’s gone for good, then that’s the way it is, thanks for the memories. I will shut down and play something else. If the list is coming back then I will wait it out.
[QUOTE=wolfn00b;393041]Perhaps you have some inside information you could share with us? Your tone is so condescending. Not sure you are aware of it.
You’re right, ET isn’t going away as long as there are admins willing to run empty servers full of bots on their home computers.
There are a dozen other games I could be hosting instead, and having clarity on the situation is really the only thing I want. If it’s gone for good, then that’s the way it is, thanks for the memories. I will shut down and play something else. If the list is coming back then I will wait it out.[/QUOTE]
I stand by what I said. If you want to go pay a hoster dollars for another game that will die in a year, go ahead. Can you tell me of any other free games that are going on right now?
I never got into this because of popularity, I got into it because my clan needed a place to play, and they (read: I)
have been doing that since 2003, so I dont much give a shi* if there are more popular games.
are you seriously telling me that a few udp flooders and a broken master server is going to kill this game? The flooding isnt limited to et either as Im sure you know, anything that uses udp as a protocol can be udp flooded, or did I miss something?
So you go on thinking that servers dont mean anything if they have bots, but you know what? I’ll be hosting long after this thread dies and you go on to more ‘popular’ games. How many other peeps do you know that have actually ran servers on their own network and made it work?
Did I read all this wrong? Paul has created a master list, how hard could it be to just re code the game engine to point to that? The damn things free to tinker with anyway, I doubt much if anyone would care.
With all the gloom and doom here its a wonder the game survives at all.
Blindman100, sure it is a free game and also one that is in SD’s or ID’s portfolio.
Point is, we join this forum mostly cause of ‘this’ game (or the quake 3 mod) and what may come after ET (total crap until now imo). There is also some love for the idtech engine i guess.
If it was my company who made ET i would kill people to resolve this issue.
I don’t have the feeling that SD gives a sh!t about ET/RTCW. AT ALL! ANYMORE.
Anyways, great game.
SD could steal ze objective from ID and secure it at their base, then an engineer fix it.
Understand SD doesn’t have/own the Master Server, and they can only ask ID to do it; Seems ID tries so, but with a such low-speed progress… Or it’s a trainee doing it, or they look at it when they have time. That feeling is coming more and more to my mind >.>
The fact of MS down could be:
So, IMO, the rate between Number of servers/Number of players is better than before, even if there’s a loss on both… If someone follow and understand me ^^’
[QUOTE=Mateos;393049]SD could steal ze objective from ID and secure it at their base, then an engineer fix it.
Understand SD doesn’t have/own the Master Server, and they can only ask ID to do it; Seems ID tries so, but with a such low-speed progress… Or it’s a trainee doing it, or they look at it when they have time. That feeling is coming more and more to my mind >.>
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Certainly not the problem, I also programmed the master myself. The problem is that ID holds the domain / dns that points to their not-working master. If they would update that and put it so SD/etmaster’s one, problem would be solved as well.
