Server Situation - Endless Ages

**Telos** · 08-17-2008, 04:44 PM

*UPDATE*
I made a false alarm

Nevermind server is still up for a while.
*UPDATE*

Because I have inherited the responsibility to make this kind of post, I am going to inform you all of the current situation.

Right now we are of course on the ropes in the money situation, the server will most likely go down sometime this week. Silent has already arranged to sell another game he owns in order to get these bugs fixed, and help pay for the servers. He has informed me that this transaction is to happen on friday. As such he hopes the check will be cleared by the following tuesday, which will allow us to pay for the servers again.

He has began to change the management structure at DME to bring in a different, more focused group with more specific individual tasks, rather than just a couple of us focusing on too many tasks to handle. Hopefully, this move will mean we can focus on new content, and great new artwork. For the moment I don't have many details on this, but hopefully I will soon be able to tell you more.

Kermit · 08-17-2008, 04:50 PM

Appreciate the post Telos. Time to look forward again

samtheman768 · 08-17-2008, 05:13 PM

Thanks Telos.....but wow >.<

ArceusSP · 08-17-2008, 05:43 PM

Thank you very much Telos =)
Great new artwork, hmmm if you guys are gonna update the sprites ima go get me a new graphics card!

plasticAiredale · 08-17-2008, 05:56 PM

Thanks Telos for the heads-up. Hopefully the server won't be down too long. If there is anything you guys need that I can help with let me know.

**Telos** · 08-17-2008, 06:57 PM

I hope it won't be down long as well. I hated making this kind of post, lots of drama today for me.

solodynasty · 08-17-2008, 07:03 PM

Nothing can break EA's moment except a firewall! Lol. Ty for the post Telos much apreciated.

Choobinator · 08-18-2008, 12:57 AM

i dont like to see this kind of struggling to make ends meet.. because you can only keep this up for so long before you run out of things to sell.

have you guys considered some other way to host EA? there's got to be a way to host it for [near] free... i' know that cyber cafe's are capable to host mmorpgs. . . .

**Telos** · 08-18-2008, 01:08 AM

We are definitely looking for other ways, we've been running it this way to meet debugging requirements. In any case things are a bit messy right now. The server may end up coming back quickly, or it may be delayed a week. This is all between Jason and Brandon right now, I'm simply caught up in the middle, haha. Most likely we'll move to some sort of co-locating to reduce server costs significantly.

Hellbinder · 08-18-2008, 08:03 AM

What is going on with Jason anyway. He has not been around for a couple weeks and now this.

I didnt know that Silent was so involved. In the 2 months i have been back in game he has been around or made some simple statement maybe once.

Hopefull this works out.

**oogie** · 08-18-2008, 09:10 AM

Folks would be surprised how much Silent is looking forward to EA not only surviing but growing and thriving. He's trying to ensure that this game is what the players want - a fun, playable game and community.

Snizo · 08-18-2008, 09:23 AM

Thanks for the update!

Getting a game/business/project running smoothely isn't always the easiest task. I'd invite everybody who is impatient to take a pill and chill out for a little while.

There's a saying that goes something like this:
"Only 1 out of every 10 businesses succeeds initially,
And 1 in every 10 of those is still around after 5 years."

But I know that failure is not final. And only those who give up become a true failure.

I'd rather look at it like this:
It takes 10 tries to make sure your business will succeed initially.
and then 10 more tries to make sure it's still around in 5 years.

Theres gonna be lots of problems in any venture in life.

Don't let these growing pains derail the EA movement. It's a worthy game to have around, and one that many people have greatly enjoyed.

Without the smaller tight-knit community of EA I wouldn't have met and became accquainted with some really great people all over the world.

I applaud the efforts of the devs to bring EA back to its full glory.

**Jason Lee** · 08-18-2008, 05:54 PM

I've been around, lurking in the background.

dalhn · 08-18-2008, 09:03 PM

lol he hides behind every rock and tree and attacks you when your being hit by mobs so u cant tell...

lol no jason is fine.

**oogie** · 08-19-2008, 03:20 AM

lol Jason always was good at ambushes.

OH NOES -- That's it-- he's going to pk us!!

**GM_Solstice** · 08-19-2008, 06:44 AM

hmmm Peekay!!! im in ..

Akai The Froggy · 08-19-2008, 04:14 PM

Well this may explain why I am stuck in limbo between the newbie zone and the mainwolrd....if not....can somebody help me >.<!!

hdog111 · 08-19-2008, 07:57 PM

is this why my EA is Broken! i dl the game and patches put in my name and pass then it starts to load..the first few bars load then once it gets to EArevolutionAII It Stops loading...

Kermit · 08-19-2008, 08:33 PM

please see this post hdog111. it will help you out.

http://www.endless-ages.com/planet-i...23-08-a-t1229/

kipperlips1 · 08-19-2008, 08:42 PM

i sugest saving your money and keeping EA offline for a month or maybee even more while things get sorted and maybee you guys could suprise us with a awsome version of EA we have all been wishing for, i realy do hate to see you guys strugling to keep EA up.. it realy does upset me, the game atm does have flaws even compared to older versions and the more people that play it in the state it is in the more bad press it will get and that is no good for the future of the game, EA still has a very good chance of making it but first impressions mean a lot in a game just like anything else in life. it would be a nightmare to see all your hard work and dedication to EA come to nothing, i see that you guys are trying hard to reveal EA's true potential but its potential is big and showing that full potential will take time to accomplish, if you guys can fix it up in a short time that would be great but seriously if atm the game is costing you money then it should be put on hold while things are sorted, if you was to put it on hold i cant see anyone leaving the game permanently, if anything i think it would get some of the peeps who have left back for a try and for newcomers to the game you could just put a big noticeable "bookmark this site" button on the main page so people will come back and check up to see if game is ready.

aaanyway i wish you guys the best of luck with the whole situation, it kills me that yall are strugling to keep server up esspecialy having to sell another game.. that realy sux

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**Jason Lee** · 08-19-2008, 11:51 PM

Well, I think ive talked softlayer into delaying shutting down the server until this friday. This will atleast give us time to prepare to move all the services, make clean backups etc to our other lower cost machines that I picked up recently just in case something like this was to happen.

Dont worry guys, as I've said before, I will not let EA go down ever again.

RYSTIC · 08-20-2008, 05:26 AM

No worries here

Thanks for the news.

solodynasty · 08-20-2008, 05:55 AM

Great news Jason, ty. I think we could use another mass email to everyone that subbed up before that has left once the game gets polished up.

**Telos** · 08-21-2008, 07:54 PM

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