Booted from server

ph0dious · Post by **ph0dious** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:45 am

Hey,

I just got booted from the Elysia server.. and now it says the password is incorrect.. and I know I typed it in right because I did it 6 times.. looks like everyone else was booted to considering no one is on the server.. whats going on?

Diamond · Post by **Diamond** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:46 am

The admins are probably doing server maintenance. When they don't want to spend all their time trying to tell folks to log off, they change the password instead. It saves them time and trouble.

Jordicus · Post by **Jordicus** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:47 am

it's called a server restart!!

when you see a message from the server saying "Server Restarting. Log off now." you're supposed to feking log off...

ph0dious · Post by **ph0dious** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:48 am

well considering I was AFK!!!! I didnt see it lol

went upstairs and grabbed my dinner while it happend i guess.. just asked some friends and they said server restart.. come back here not looking to get bitched at.. but say what happend.. could of said it a little nicer man.. you cant always assume that someone is going to know what happend.. for all you know I could of left my comp to take a piss

Diamond · Post by **Diamond** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:55 am

Hey be glad you got a straight answer

it's much better than being lied to, or ignored.

ph0dious · Post by **ph0dious** » Tue May 11, 2004 3:02 am

yeah thats true

Hey Jordicus.. sorry man.. just kinda ticks me off a little when someone says something that looks to me as being disrespectful.. I understand though that all you Avlis peeps are busy and such and have alot of presure put on you all.. again.. sorry

Jordicus · Post by **Jordicus** » Tue May 11, 2004 4:06 am

don't worry bout it... just consider yourself lucky that no one decided to take advantage of your PC while you were AFK considering I gave a 5 minute warning.. if you're going to be AFK for that long, I would suggest logging off..

ph0dious · Post by **ph0dious** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:26 am

eh.. just a game.. and I was around good friends.. but.. I understand what you're saying.. thanks man.. I'll be sure to do that from now on

Aloro · Post by **Aloro** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:00 am

We try to give lots of warnings before restarting servers. Sometimes it gets a little frustrating when people don't listen to the warning/requests... just to provide a little context. I know I usually give 5 minutes' warning, and make around 6-8 announcements in all, and yet there are always a few people who don't take notice. Now, some people are AFK, and some are busy fighting and don't see the messages, but when I've been warning repeatedly for some time, I'm ready to restart and don't want to have to keep waiting... all this server maintenance takes a lot of work, and I want to be able to move on to something else. Anyhow, now you know.

- Aloro

Dirk Cutlass · Post by **Dirk Cutlass** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:54 am

ph0dious wrote:well considering I was AFK!!!! I didnt see it lol
..... for all you know I could of left my comp to take a piss

You leave your computer for that .. Oh, I've rigged up this little bottle thing its ... er.. perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that

Only joking .. seriously though, is it a problem if someone doesn't log off - I thought it was only an inconvinence for the player (e.g. because you might log back into the middle of somewhere unsafe, etc.)... does it affect the maintence as well (e.g. you have to manually boot people off before you can shutdown the server)?!