Unofficial "Empty Server List" Fix

[Mateos]

They’ll not hear you stealth, sadly. May I also say Duke Nukem 3D, which is more active about map/mods projects than ET even when PB/MS list were up…

[Ruben0s]

or counterstrike and bf games.

What would making it official actually change?

For the game nothing, but I would stop investing money in my server.

Will it kill the game? Of course not, but it will definitely have an impact on the amount of new players, and that is sadly where some server owners depend on. I luckily don’t depend on new players, but I know that apart from the top 50/70+ servers a lot of other servers do.

But then you still have sites like ET.splatterladder and trackbase, but I personally never look further then the first page of servers and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people do exactly the same. So only the popular and full servers benefit from sites like that and not the servers that are in need of new players.

Anyway for me it’s already clear that the masterserverlist will not return ( it only takes an hour to put it back on). But I am just dissapointed in Splashdamage and how they communicate with the community. And I will remember that before I will buy one of their next games.

[diaboliksmart]

stop investing money in my server.

yes, it is the end of a lot of servers

more than that: IT IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE FOR A NEW SERVER ( new IP & zero base-player) TO EXIST: so yes, ID/SD kill the game

Happy days are gone …

[Tankey]

However I’ve not played quake and the other games, I highly doubt it had the same player amount as ET.
We all know people are leaving the game. But people do return. Most of them outta here are oldskoolers. Playing a game without all that ****ty killstreakrewards, not all that damn enhancements to your gun to improve your weapon, no damn perks to increase your bullet damage. That is unique. That makes ET ET. That is the damn reason people play ET. Not because of the amazing graphics. Just because of the gameplay. Oldskool. Such game is unique nowadays, that is why ET holds it so long.
Like some of you noticed, I compared CoD with ET here.

I actually dont care about the money I waste now. I just want ‘why’. Why is it still not up. Why don’t we get any updates. Why was there no notice before they decided to put it down. Why does an ID developer not known anything new about the MS. I can keep going on for a while like this. If they just made 1 single post, I didn’t have to blame ID so much. Looks like they are scared to announce it.

But I am just dissapointed in Splashdamage and how they communicate with the community. And I will remember that before I will buy one of their next games.

This.

However ET was a free game, I know what you mean. And many people will think the same.

@Badman
Just want to thank you because you are actually the only one around here fighting for any news and inform the community. While the others don’t really care. I really appreciate that. Chapeau Badman. But I though think it won’t help anymore.

I just pray for one thing, and that is that SD takes over the MS from ID. Like you said in your offer. That would be awesome.

[schnoog]

Would be absolut great if SD would run a Masterserver (it could be done really easy: Download, compile and run dpmaster , tooks me about 2 minutes on a low performance Atom homeserver).

[Patriotqube]

Thanks Schnoog. When this happens, I will start blasting emails to every site I can find to add Harekin’s installer.

Well il change ours asap as soon as we have somthing

really appreciate tyhe ppl working on it, i personally dont have the knowledge, but i do have a good fast and reliable download place.

[Paul]

Congrats to badman guys, seems like he got them finally to get to work and fix that damn thing

I will make the appropriate changes in the code to make sure it’s synced within a few days, as I’m now struggling with the exams. Thanks to all of you who have supported the game in the mean time, and may it live another age

[Mateos]

So we can expect 2 or 3 people to be inactive now? No more trolls crying? =D

[diaboliksmart]

Yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh IT WORKS !!!

Thanks to badman for the effort, and all genious-developers finding workarounds

( I made the test 3 times, watching paranoically the content of my /etc/hosts lol )

Thanks again - long-life to ET

[Patriotqube]

Its up? very very nice

if thats your doing Badman then i owe you a big beer

n1

[cheesy]

Yup…it up!

I would ask what took so long but meh…

[Mateos]

The result is here, that’s the best anyone can expect!

[Tankey]

Finally. nice done badman

[Ruben0s]

Against my expectations it’s indeed back. Well done.

[vATU]

lolololo rubennnn :stroggbanana:

Nice job! Keep ET alive !

[Rudi]

Would I be considered a dick if I said a big fat “I TOLD YOU SO”?!

[Qmm]

Its working ET is alive!!!
Masterserver is up!!!

[Domagoj]

Just wanted to THANK YOU to everyone who put effort in this, espeically to badman who was our only relation with ID, HAVE A NICE FRAGGING GUYS! ET LIVES FOREVER!!!

[Shadow1993]

Well done!

See u guys in the battlefield!

[Harle]

I hope Harlekin will implement the proxy service to his installer. When this took place, I`ll deactivate all older ET downloads @ wolffiles (or at least create a notification)

Sorry for not publishing the installer with the proxy service. I always hoped the master will come up again