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Booted from server

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:45 am
by ph0dious
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?

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:46 am
by Diamond
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.

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:47 am
by Jordicus
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...

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:48 am
by ph0dious
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

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:55 am
by Diamond
Hey be glad you got a straight answer :P it's much better than being lied to, or ignored.

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:02 am
by ph0dious
yeah thats true :lol:

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

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:06 am
by Jordicus
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..

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:26 am
by ph0dious
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 :D

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:00 am
by Aloro
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

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:54 am
by Dirk Cutlass
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 :oops:


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)?!