FLU Version 3.0

[TheGreenKnight]

Well, I'm going to keep working at it, though largely this consists of setting up a ship, sending it cruising afk, and walking away for an hour. lol

That way if they wipe it, I'm not too crushed.

And if they don't, Hey! I've got ships!

And of course, if I can actually steal away some time to DO something ingame, that will be great too! lol

TGK

[tronic]

I put this here so it is easy to see (no login needed).
Robo needs 15+ people on line for a couple of hours
as a test. The no activity kick has been disabled so
you can just log on with all your accounts and go have
a few beers.

[skifee]

anyone know when the server is gonna be properly up and running? i heard it was gonna be a few days ago but when i set up an account i still gt kitted out eagle.

[TheGreenKnight]

It's rolling now. They're still giving out eagles for the time being to help people out a bit, but we're good to go!

TGK

[tronic]

Well, yet again the character database has been messed with.
A couple of new characters I had made about a week ago are gone
one was a Repair ship with 50mil plus on it.
Another was a new DefElite.
The server can never recover if this keeps up.

[TheGreenKnight]

I spent about a half an hour with Robo restoring accounts. We got back a mix of stuff from old and new databases, but were not in bad shape. I'll post more detail in the clan part of the forum.

In the meantime, if you're missing anything, all you have to do is ask an admin in game--it's the easiest way. You can pm robo, but he's going to get a LOT of those pms soon. The good news is there are a bunch of admins--including Robo--in game.

Yes, I do know it is annoying. I think he might be moving closer to finding the problem. I noticed that the server dropped out on me 3 times--each time I was undocking with either a modded ship or a ship with modded weapons. I don't know if it was the undocking or the equipment, or if this info even helped at all. But I do know Robo has narrowed it down quite a bit--possibly to a specific file.

Belive me I know the frustration guys. I'm missing at least 20 ships that I could bother asking him to restore because I could rebuild them easily enough and I'd already had him restore a lot more than that. I figure I had about 100 hours in setting up my last set of ships, and some of these are they, and some are from older databases. It's maddening, but I know Robo is trying his best here.

If I can help anyone out with anything, let me know.

TGK

[tronic]

It has been done yet again, YES the character data base has been screwed with.
Don't know exactly when but in last several days 100's of characters have been deleted.
From what I can see only characters active in Dec 2009 and Jan 2010 are left.

[TheGreenKnight]

I'm starting to think he should just wipe the database altogether, and throw people gobs of credits to start over.

*facepalm*

I'd suggest that he goes vanilla for a while, but he did that and that didn't seem to solve the problem either.

*facepalm*

Listen guys, let me know what you're missing, and a rough cash amount, and I'll see what I can do. To be honest, I don't see any point in asking for it until the server is actually fixed, and I don't plan on rebuilding anything I've lost until I catch Robo in game and find out what is going on.

Tronic, you have been such a great souce of information it wouldn't surprise me if you were Robo in disguise. Thanks so much for keeping us in the loop. I personally appreciate it.

(Course, how else could I apprecaite it but personally? It's one of my favorite expressions but I wonder if it makes any sense...)

*facepalm*

I'll let you guy's know if I find anything else out.

TGK

[tronic]

There is a long post by Robo on the FLU board, but in short it says
he thinks he found the problem and it might have been deliberate
attacks by some players.
Well lets hope it's fixed.