Is the game down?

Started by deviant storm, June 29, 2003, 10:00:50 AM

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June 29, 2003, 10:00:50 AM
I tried to log on this morning and I keep getting 'host unreachable'. Can't get the Arm website either. Is the game down? Is it something serious? Or is it just Saikun isn't awake yet to fix it?
Quote from: brytta.leofa on August 17, 2010, 07:55:28 PM
A glossy, black-shelled mantis says, in insectoid-accented sirihish,
  "You haven't picked enough cotton, friend."
Choose thy fate:
June 29, 2003, 10:05:00 AM #1
hmm...no shit. wait sorry ;p

bah. I was having a great time till it crashed...I looked at my window
>Think Fucking lag...maybe Ill have to reboot
>emote places his hand on mouse, clicking onto mirc's window
>l mirc
>Think Oh mother fekker...servers down....
>Change objective Resist violence

;)
Veteran Newbie
June 29, 2003, 10:12:59 AM #2
After exhaustive and thorough investigation, I've come to the following conclusion:

Saikun's adorable, sweet, cuddly, and always-entertaining ball of fluff kittycat named SayTan Spawn was chasing a mosquito around the server, as he is wont to do during the wee hours of Connecticut summer mornings.

In his tireless efforts, dear SayTan managed to open the Command window and place his tiny little paws on the keys:

f
o
r
m
a
t
c
:
<enter>

I'm sure once Saikun wakes up, he'll have the game up and running, and darling little SayTan will be enjoying a nice bowl of milk beside Tektolnes on the Highlord's living room divan.
June 29, 2003, 11:46:58 AM #3
I can't get to either the game or the machine itself. I advise enjoying the day for now, and I'm sure Saikun will have the machine back up soon. And at least the boards are up! :)
June 29, 2003, 02:35:38 PM #4
YAY! Three cheers for Sanvean!


Creeper
21sters Unite!
June 29, 2003, 03:56:06 PM #5
It would seem there has been a power failure, and the system board decided to stay asleep, instead of waking back up like I told it to.

I'll try to get the machine back up this evening.

-S
June 29, 2003, 07:36:13 PM #6
Woohoo, it's up, mofos!
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. --J.D. Salinger
June 29, 2003, 07:44:07 PM #7
phew. I thought I wasn't going to be able to play later  :shock:

3 cheers for Sakun and let's put his cat on the barbeque  :evil:
June 29, 2003, 08:58:46 PM #8
So the new machine got scared of the storm and took a nap...

Sounds like a Ginka to me.
Quote from: DeliriumA hunched shinigami prowls around here, gnashing its teeth.
June 30, 2003, 05:38:37 AM #9
SayTaaaaan! Have you been hopping on the keyboard again?!  :shock:

(Game went kablooie again at 5:52 am EST.. the website's up, but it's saying that Armageddon is still running. Wierd. Maybe it's just me?)
June 30, 2003, 05:40:19 AM #10
Well I just got dc  :evil: The website wasn't accessible for a few mins, now it's back and saying the game is still loaded up, but I can't log in  :?
June 30, 2003, 05:40:35 AM #11
Nope, it's happening for me as well.  *sigh*  No early morning arm before bed.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. --J.D. Salinger
June 30, 2003, 06:06:46 AM #12
Need ARM fix at 6am!! GIMME!

emote kicks the ginka machine until it works again.
ree as a bird and joyfully my heart
Soared up among the rigging, in and out;
Under a cloudless sky the ship rolled on
Like an angel drunk with brilliant sun.
                                       - Charles Baudelaire
June 30, 2003, 06:09:05 AM #13
Seriously. You distract Saikun, I'll kill the cat.
June 30, 2003, 06:15:39 AM #14
Acknowledged.

emote kills Saikun and distracts the cat.
ree as a bird and joyfully my heart
Soared up among the rigging, in and out;
Under a cloudless sky the ship rolled on
Like an angel drunk with brilliant sun.
                                       - Charles Baudelaire
June 30, 2003, 06:20:26 AM #15
It always seems to happen right when my character has sat down to talk with a certain other character..

Are we cursed or what? Gimme back my early morning Armageddon!  :cry:
June 30, 2003, 06:26:29 AM #16
What confuses me is that the homepage still thinks the game is running  :?

Quote from: "Delerium"Are we cursed or what?
Yes. :P
June 30, 2003, 06:36:34 AM #17
That's probably why the game hasn't rebooted. The game either isn't down or the machine doesn't think it is. Maybe this is the first of cyberdyne. The beginning of artificial intelligence when it deceives itself and becomes psychotic with jealousy and delusions.
ree as a bird and joyfully my heart
Soared up among the rigging, in and out;
Under a cloudless sky the ship rolled on
Like an angel drunk with brilliant sun.
                                       - Charles Baudelaire
June 30, 2003, 06:37:55 AM #18
Quote from: "Eclipse"The beginning of artificial intelligence when it deceives itself and becomes psychotic with jealousy and delusions.
I tell people naming machines is a bad idea! Look at all the different movies. 2001 and others. It's just asking for trouble
June 30, 2003, 06:39:19 AM #19
I've named mine.........Poe! Master Poe! LOL!!!

*sigh* I'm gone with self-delusions of playing Armageddon. Go do something productive, or stay here and keep on waiting. A hard choice.
ree as a bird and joyfully my heart
Soared up among the rigging, in and out;
Under a cloudless sky the ship rolled on
Like an angel drunk with brilliant sun.
                                       - Charles Baudelaire
June 30, 2003, 08:11:57 AM #20
Meh, complain of missing 'morning' Arm all you want, we Europeans miss out on a whole day of Arming!

... And it's raining outside.
June 30, 2003, 10:03:08 AM #21
I am beginning to wonder if the new server was such a good idea. The old ginka may have been old, but it was more reliable, imo.
Quote from: brytta.leofa on August 17, 2010, 07:55:28 PM
A glossy, black-shelled mantis says, in insectoid-accented sirihish,
  "You haven't picked enough cotton, friend."
Choose thy fate:
June 30, 2003, 10:06:59 AM #22
Quote from: "deviant storm"I am beginning to wonder if the new server was such a good idea.
I was actually surprised with how (apparent) little trouble occured with the upgrade. I'm sure in a week's time Saikun will have all the bugs ironed out. Until then we have to be patient.

On the bright side, anyone want some cat? it's really tasty  :twisted:
June 30, 2003, 10:20:41 AM #23
The new machine is fine. The only problem so far has been the power outage, which can hardly be blamed on the hardware. If you can get to the website, then the machine is up and running, which is about the limit of my sphere of power. If the game itself isn't up, which it isn't, then you'll just have to wait for someone who understands it better than I do to hop on and fix it.

-S
June 30, 2003, 10:25:04 AM #24
Quote from: "John"Until then we have to be patient.
Patience?

You'd think we'd at least be able to watch 'the poo' get chopped by 'wagassi'.

But nooo...

it's raining in london...

again.

But wait! Arm is back.. now the rain will stop I guess too...

hmm.
June 30, 2003, 10:36:21 AM #25
Hey, at least it is raining during the weedays and sunny during the weekend this time in the UK!  At least this last weekend, but it could start a trend!  Better than Sunshine all week long until the weekend, which is what I generally expect   :D

Pray for more imms who can fix the game around during European hours!
Evolution ends when stupidity is no longer fatal."
June 30, 2003, 12:36:57 PM #26
Everything seems to be fine for me. I can connect and there are a goodly chunk of players on currently. I'm going to assume either there's other Internet issues or the game has been fixed by now.

Thanks,
Brix.
June 30, 2003, 01:17:01 PM #27
If you're having trouble, you might try using the numeric IP (64.252.79.51 port 4050) and see if that helps.
June 30, 2003, 04:04:28 PM #28
QuoteIf you're having trouble, you might try using the numeric IP (64.252.79.51 port 4050) and see if that helps.

Wouldn't have mattered this morning.  Had no trouble tracerouting to the IP, no lost packets along the way - the server was refusing connections.
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July 03, 2003, 05:12:41 AM #29
Here we go again  :D
July 03, 2003, 05:14:58 AM #30
Quote from: "Northlander"Here we go again  :D

Yup.  It's definitely not just you, because I can't connect either.
Quote from: AnaelYou know what I love about the word panic?  In Czech, it's the word for "male virgin".
July 03, 2003, 05:17:05 AM #31
:shock:

I didn't even get a chance to log in and curse the game with my evil presence.
July 03, 2003, 05:41:19 AM #32
First my internet goes down. Then when it finally comes up Arm goes down.

And it STILL doesn't know it's down  :x
July 03, 2003, 08:49:43 AM #33
The odd thing about this is that the game THINKS it's up, but refuses connections...

And it's always right around 5am EST, too.
July 03, 2003, 11:14:38 AM #34
July 3 downtime: Yes, the game went down somewhere around 5AM EST, it has been recognized, and while I don't have a current password in order to remedy it I'm letting the other Powers That Be know.  The ball is rolling, and barring the unexpected we should be back up in a reasonable timeframe.

-Savak
i]May the fleas of a thousand kanks nestle in your armpit.  -DustMight[/i]
July 03, 2003, 11:21:34 AM #35
Cheers Savak, it's up.
July 03, 2003, 04:57:26 PM #36
Quote from: "Delirium"The odd thing about this is that the game THINKS it's up, but refuses connections...

Maybe Ginka III dosen't want players messing up her perfect little world.  Just wait until she hacks into the DoD computers and trys to turn Earth into a Zalananthas clone using nuclear devices and mutagenic biological weapons.  :o

AC
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with."     Henry S. Haskins
July 03, 2003, 05:10:31 PM #37
Hey, it's cool so long as she mutates us players to survive. (And models us into our characters, which would for some... make for very much weirdness. I.E. sex change! (Oh, and not to mention becoming an elf, or a magicker or something.))
July 08, 2003, 01:46:27 AM #38
If you did it right after... It's a good guess I have that it wasn't you.

If it was before... DAMN YOU!!!



Creeper
21sters Unite!
July 08, 2003, 02:05:38 AM #39
lmao....
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July 17, 2003, 05:07:24 AM #40
Again? The site seems to think the game's up. The game doesn't seem to think so though.  Right around 5:15 am EST as usual. :P
July 17, 2003, 05:53:56 AM #41
I'm with you Delerium...I keep losing NPC guards to these crashes.  Soon, the entire house will be no more as all the NPCs will be eaten by crashes!
July 17, 2003, 09:54:28 AM #42
We're continuing to suffer from power issues. Specifically (I theorize) with the new machine being too much Ginka for the old UPS. We have a new UPS that's due to go in this Saturday sometime, so we'll see if that fixes the problems. If it doesn't, then I place the blame squarely on you all, as you're certainly doing something so unwholesome at 5 AM every morning that it causes not only Ginka, but all related LAN equiptment to power themselves off.

-Saikun
July 29, 2003, 06:00:11 AM #43
This particular downtime issue appears to have fully resolved with the replacement of ginka's UPS.  Closing this thread, but feel free to start a new one if a similar disconcerting problem rears its ugly head.

-Savak
i]May the fleas of a thousand kanks nestle in your armpit.  -DustMight[/i]
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