Gherkin Posted November 22, 2003 Doom Connector is currently at a crossroads and will most likely die soon. The server for our well known multiplayer service is going down and there is nothing we can do to prevent that. The alternatives are daunting financially, and in keeping with the spirit of this enterprise, we are not asking for funding or dues from any Doom faithfuls. With the 250-300 unique regulars from all over the world and ofcourse the usual bunch of new people, it is a relatively big asset to Doom's multiplayer and im sorry if it has to end this way. Although not all of the following people are still Doom Connector staff, id like to thank them in particular for their help and effort put in this service: Mr.Rocket, Dagger, Doom Rampage, Foxxy, Mr Chris, Ratchetjaw and ofcourse Joen for a good 2 year hosting of this service for free. If there is anyone out there who thinks he can help us out with a server machine, we'd like to hear from you! The server requirements are HERE, please send an email to jandafox@ceinetworks.com. Thanks in advance. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted November 22, 2003 Shit, this is not good :( How much uptime before the expected shutdown? (before another server comes up) I will miss DC once it goes down. This should be stickied/front page news until the server changes or goes down. The reason is because Joen's hosting company went bankrupt :-/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Sparky123 Posted November 22, 2003 well he did say that there was away to help we need sopmeone with a server 0 Share this post Link to post
Torn Posted November 22, 2003 Damn, sound bad.:/ I hope you find another server. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted November 22, 2003 I have a friend who I am going to ask, but don't hold out a hope. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted November 22, 2003 My friend dan schmolze just got back to me with these words: "They need to make it a distrubted system" I don't know what that means, but he's the man, and if he says it, then it's worth paying attention to. Chesterules: so what is a "distrubted system"? Chesterules: do you think DC has a prayer? Chesterules: is it hard to do a distrubted sytem or to find someone else to host? schmolze: well, it's a networking system that doesn't require a central server schmolze: like Kazaa Chesterules: right Chesterules: how does one go about that schmolze: it's not easy schmolze: but there's a lot of literature about it these days schmolze: you'd need to write a whole new system, definitely Chesterules: I see, so basically DC is sunk schmolze: have you checked out Beksinski's website? 0 Share this post Link to post
cycloid Posted November 22, 2003 rewrite it all so it can magically detect users who run a server on their own machine. difficult without a central node but "peer to peer" IS the new buzzword intown... otherwise surely all one has to do is be on an IRC channel and tell peops your current IP address (if yours is dynamic) for peops to connect to... some sort of connector/irc autolisting combo would do it 0 Share this post Link to post
Sporku Posted November 22, 2003 This is indeed a bad thing, but I think all the people on DC are taking it WAAAAAAYYY too seriously, as if: -The apocalypse is coming -They have some bad dissease and are about to die -They can't live without DC -They are going to kill themselves without DC being around 1 Share this post Link to post
Shockwav3 Posted November 23, 2003 AgentSpork said:This is indeed a bad thing, but I think all the people on DC are taking it WAAAAAAYYY too seriously, as if: -The apocalypse is coming -They have some bad dissease and are about to die -They can't live without DC -They are going to kill themselves without DC being around so fucking true man, so true. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rellik Posted November 23, 2003 It still sucks all kinds of ass Sporko. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
netnomad312 Posted November 23, 2003 Spork: Amen to that. Personally, I think it wouldn't be that hard to find a decent server. I wouldn't know, of course; that's just a slightly educated guess. I heard it would finally go down Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, is that true? I and my clan are currently trying to figure out alternate ways to meet and play. There are the ZDaemon and Skulltag servers, but for some of us, unable to use high-speed connections (in my case, my cable company is evil), that just isn't gonna happen. We've been using Legacy on DC for a while now. We tried making a dedicated room on DC, then I tried to join it directly through Legacy... it would always stop at "sending join request." What causes this? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted November 23, 2003 ...licks the back of this thread and sticks it on the wall for a while... 0 Share this post Link to post
netnomad312 Posted November 23, 2003 Ah, nevermind, I found my problem. I'd started the wrong version of Legacy. Heh. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gherkin Posted November 23, 2003 Yes thats true Spork, I seen some of those whiners too. Still though, there going to be that gaping hole in multiplayer community where DC is used to be. I hope we find a new home for the server soon. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted November 23, 2003 AgentSpork said:This is indeed a bad thing, but I think all the people on DC are taking it WAAAAAAYYY too seriously, as if: -The apocalypse is coming -They have some bad dissease and are about to die -They can't live without DC -They are going to kill themselves without DC being around Heh, sounds like die-hard DC players (ala hardcore CS players are similar). I can live without DC. I hope a new server is found soon. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom Marine Posted November 24, 2003 why do good things never last? Fuck. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted November 24, 2003 Unless a new host is found, DC only has 48 to 72 hours left in it's life now. Enjoy DC while it's still up. :-( 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted November 26, 2003 Why hasn't DC died yet? It was supposed to yesterday or the day before, not that I'm complaining or anything. 0 Share this post Link to post
Reisal Posted November 28, 2003 It's gone now, until a new host is found that is. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gherkin Posted November 29, 2003 The server is temporarely running on an ADSL line (thank you Joen!) We are not sure the IP will be static, so a downtime may occur, but its just a temporary solution. We are still looking for a new server! This goes down march 1. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathz0r Posted November 29, 2003 Gherkin said:This goes down march 1. March 1st, 2004? 0 Share this post Link to post
netnomad312 Posted November 29, 2003 What!? Cool! So there doesn't have to be any emergency planning I have to do yet. I haven't been able to check except last night, when I got a popup message saying it was down. Until Sunday I'm at relatives, with only my laptop having DC (and it's hard to get it online)... 0 Share this post Link to post