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Other => FOnline:2238 Forum => Archives => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Ghosthack on February 28, 2012, 08:01:48 pm
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I posted this news post yesterday, but due to problems with MySQL, the database had to be reverted (only yesterdays brief hour of forumdata lost).
In short, it seems we are back on track with the webserver and database now.
Migration to our new server at Hetzner Online (http://www.hetzner.de) will begin in the coming days. We hope the migration will be more painless than past few days!
Edit: This is the new server (http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4). Accordingly to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html the new machine's CPU is thrice as fast as what one we are renting at OVH (it has a Intel Core2 Quad Q6700), and the latency seems lower as well!
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Glad to see you, sir. May the Force be with you.
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good job, I love this forum.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6BX-gcJqw
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Accordingly to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html the new machine's CPU is thrice as fast as what one we are renting at OVH (it has a Intel Core2 Quad Q6700), and the latency seems lower as well!
New beans! Yay!
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What about funds ? Are you going to be compensated by the previous company ? (Unspent months + downtime)
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What's with russian nicknamed characters? Will be data restored or something? Can we get them back?
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It was good to see it up this morning but it is down again I see some threads about huge lags constantly when i come back from school.
Like I mentioned anonymously on the blog; precautions should be made first to prevent another attack before bothering to put it back out there again. :(
Course that's just assumptions.
It's really good news server is being switched is great anyways! :D I hope the whole matter is solved soon.
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Very good news for the whole Wasteland. Even more good news. No wipe ! ! !
Not even better, but still very good. I like you reference Nexxos. Spent a huge amount of time on this wonderfull game... ::)
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16 GB DDR3 RAM
Sounds like a lot of fun with managing this space of RAM :)
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This forum's pages load almost instantly for me now. It definitely took longer before this switch. Good luck with the server!
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Forum is indeed much faster , everything works very smooth now. It's so good to see this forum back again.
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Thanks developers. You are great people.
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Again...nice to hear and good job guys! Thx for the hard work on this issue!
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Yay, the forum is finally back! :) Great job, everyone.
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So the new host is faster, stronger, cheaper (and a few km to the east)? That's not so bad at all.
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Here, have an e-beer:
(http://www.thefatlossauthority.com/fat_loss_tips/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/beer-calories1.jpg)
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Glad to see you back there and thanks for your work :)
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Good to hear that.
I have stupid question. 16 GB of ram .. Fonline server is 64 bit application? Thx.
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Glad to see you again, Rotators. :D
Good job with getting the server running again so fast! Btw, did you used the donations or are you going to save them until next due?
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Well finally ! :P
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I have stupid question. 16 GB of ram .. Fonline server is 64 bit application? Thx.
16 is for FOnline, for backup application, for forum database, for wiki-boy, for statistics app, for testing, for running second FOnline to test changes, for debug tools, for lots and lots of things. Maybe one thing can't use all 16 GB, but it allows to run a lot of other things without players complaining.
Thank you for keeping us up to date on the blog and for working all week round to let us get virtually killed by PKs again :)
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I'm happy to see those grayish colours and green nicks again. Good job :)
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Yeah, A+ for keeping us informed.
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Der neue Deutsch Server ist fantastisch. Ja!
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WOW everything loads almost instantly even with my pitty 250kbps connection.
VIVA!
You devs deserve this trophy:
(http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/1/14/TrophyofRecognition.gif)
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WOW everything loads almost instantly even with my pitty 250kbps connection.
VIVA!
You devs deserve this trophy:
(http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/1/14/TrophyofRecognition.gif)
no! thats my trophy.
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Nice to see things rolling again. And it was nice to get updates on the blog about the situation.
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Good to hear that.
I have stupid question. 16 GB of ram .. Fonline server is 64 bit application? Thx.
x64 build of FOnline server is not yet completed. So till then, we will be still running 32bit one.
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great news firstly.. I'm gonna play for the first time, but update button on client does not work somehow, and therefore doesn't let me join the server. Any help is appreciated, thanks !
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OK... we're back again but for what? For more months without update with laggy as hell and unstable server? What is the future of 2238? I'm not going to whine but im just curious what others thinks.
Avarage number of players in May is the lowest in whole 2238 history. Less than 100... It's obvious that something is wrong.
IMO it's the best time to close this business and wish luck for devs with new projects.
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IMO it's the best time to close this business and wish luck for devs with new projects.
That's also my opinion.
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Clearly 2238 devs have no longer passion and will to carry on. Cant blame them.
The best what they could do is to step off the scene and set whole 2238 SDK source free and open for all.
Therefore other developers could use that already made work in order to continue and develop FOnline.
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No need to "close this business", Manero, if you and similar like minded people don't like it here you can always leave for another project while we continue. What difference will closing this project make for you after all? I'd start with abandoning your forum accounts and stop posting.
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Most PvP players have concerns about server future. Its like a " Mayday,Mayday we goin' down". I agree with above post's.
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OK... we're back again but for what? For more months without update with laggy as hell and unstable server? What is the future of 2238? I'm not going to whine but im just curious what others thinks.
Avarage number of players in May is the lowest in whole 2238 history. Less than 100... It's obvious that something is wrong.
IMO it's the best time to close this business and wish luck for devs with new projects.
(http://i49.tinypic.com/flamp4.gif)
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I think people are finally figuring it out.... commence the exodus!
To all you RPers here in 2238, good luck.....
No need to "close this business", Manero, if you and similar like minded people don't like it here you can always leave for another project while we continue. What difference will closing this project make for you after all? I'd start with abandoning your forum accounts and stop posting.
This attitude and disdain by moderators, gms and devs for the actual playerbase is part of the problem, if you don't see it or understand it, its no surprise, it shows, daily.
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Just because you don't like it, they should close a server with an average of 100 players online. How typical!
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Just because you don't like it, they should close a server with an average of 100 players online. How typical!
This isn't a flame post, but you still just don't "get it".
http://www.rookie.name/fonline/playerStats.php?r=year&s=1335826861&ts=1&ar=0&step=5 (http://www.rookie.name/fonline/playerStats.php?r=year&s=1335826861&ts=1&ar=0&step=5)
This server is dying, it's days are numbered, there is no way there is enough playerbase to support the next server donation cycle, how much plainer do you need it set out before you? I know, the typical answer is if you don't like 2238 then don't play it, message understood, taken and received. Look at the stats, everybody else is "getting it" but you thick skulled ones. There is no debate, this isn't an argument, you can't "win". I've had a good run in 2238, but it's just not fun anymore.
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And what's your point then? You don't like it and a lot of players do not like it either? OK. So what? What you fail to understand is there isn't a golden rule of FOnline engine that states a minimum player amount for a server to keep running. Rotators should close FOnline because "a lot of players stopped playing"? They always said they'd keep developping it even if it was only for themselves. If a player enjoys it as well, there's no reason to tell him to go away.
I still don't get why you're here, you dislike it here, then don't come. People starting topic on websites to tell how they are bad were always trolls. :)
You're right, there's no argument because obviously there's nothing to discuss. "Players are leaving, close the server please" got to be this month's greatest joke, thanks for that!
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You're right, there's no argument because obviously there's nothing to discuss. "Players are leaving, close the server please"
It was only my opinion so don't excite so much. Topic of my posts is:
What is the future of 2238? Im just curious what other think.
That's definietly worth discuss, you can't deny it.
For me it's really hard to understand why devs/gms can't tell us what they plan for next months.
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http://www.rookie.name/fonline/playerStats.php?r=year&s=1335826861&ts=1&ar=0&step=5 (http://www.rookie.name/fonline/playerStats.php?r=year&s=1335826861&ts=1&ar=0&step=5)
That's quite interesting to look at again. It's certainly only about 70% of what it was at the same time last year, but that's only the same amount as November / December. If you look at the other server buttons on the bottom, it's about the same amount as Requiem and slightly less than TLA mk2 - it's still one of the biggest amongst the Fonline servers as a whole. If you look at these Fonline server status checkers (http://fonline-status.narod.ru/en) it's still 1st, 2nd or 3rd, depending on time of day.
It's difficult to analyse data with small numbers like that beyond "Most people play on a Sunday, least on a Friday". You could spike the numbers by +20 from something as simple as the weather being shit over the weekend and people staying in instead of going out. Was January much busier because of post-wipe excitement, or was it actually the same number of people, who were just each levelling up a few alts all day? If a bunch of the hardcore PVP players do move to other servers like the Tactics one, would fewer noobs get killed and then stay instead of ragequitting? Very long term there is a decrease, yes, but it's not indicative of a sudden mass exodus / failure / collapse / death.
The forum still seems active and the server's still there for me and 90 other people to connect to when we want to, so although there's notably fewer people there, it's still very much alive, surely?
However, I completely agree that a little bit of update info would be good. There was a period of lots of new info on the blog (http://fonline2238.blogspot.co.uk/) about "we're testing this and trying this" (which was great), but then there's been nothing new on there since March. Even if development is having a break after an epic winter period, it'd be nice to see a message to say "We're having a break, we'll be trying new things in July" or something suchlike.
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No, you're obviously absolutely correct, everything is merrily working as it should, nothing to see hear, please move along. Please accept my apologies, whatever was i thinking, crazy post midnight hourz.... Everything is so much clearer now, i only regret that some might have taken this seriously, thank god they haven't.
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Sorry guys,but fonline is a religion.You don t leave just because it sucks.
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It was only my opinion
I was more replying to TKS-Kaboom here :P
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So, why can't the devs tell us what they're planning? If what Izual says is true, they're surely planning on more updates in the future. What could possibly go wrong from letting the loyal playerbase know a little about possible future updates? There is really no excuse.
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So, why can't the devs tell us what they're planning? If what Izual says is true, they're surely planning on more updates in the future. What could possibly go wrong from letting the loyal playerbase know a little about possible future updates? There is really no excuse.
There is one,it s named school,work,social life.Wich,sadly,comes first..
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Yeah man, it sure takes alot of work to make one forum post.
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This attitude and disdain by moderators, gms and devs for the actual playerbase is part of the problem, if you don't see it or understand it, its no surprise, it shows, daily.
Just wait for the "omg we like u so much! please donate"
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Guess you all if Devs care about those "another whining topic about future of 2238".
They not.
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whining topic?
We"ll see what you all say when status online will have 0 to 5 online players and nobody will donate it.
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For such small amount of players there's for sure some free server service :>
Anyway let's see what will happen first. Apes went out to try FOT server and I wonder if it's temporary hype or permanent exodus.
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For such small amount of players there's for sure some free server service :>
Anyway let's see what will happen first. Apes went out to try FOT server and I wonder if it's temporary hype or permanent exodus.
It's more or less permanent I would say.
it's really, really good pvp server, with new maps for every town (of course they stay to original, but there is added stuff, more room, more tactical possibilities especially if they can get elevations working) and features most good things about 2238 TC without the over-enduring hassle.
And get this, you don't need to alt to have good (pvp) fun on that server.
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They're is no "future" for 2238, that's why there is no status of updates, not even "soon". Ok? I've figured it out, I've cracked the code, I've had a seance with Houdini and he told me personally. To all of those who haven't (trust me your in the minority) figured it the fuck out, you will, when you're staring at a blank screen dumb dumbs.
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They're is no "future" for 2238, that's why there is no status of updates, not even "soon". Ok? I've figured it out, I've cracked the code, I've had a seance with Houdini and he told me personally. To all of those who haven't (trust me your in the minority) figured it the fuck out, you will, when you're staring at a blank screen dumb dumbs.
I understand you are angry as a loyal player and i guess you are right,But it s over when the boss says it s over,personally,i ll stick this place to th bitter end,and my faction will do the same.Lol,we are 1-8 of the total playerbase!
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The only real time thing limits all to ape/like guys i think...
TB only broke things and made the game shittier in general pvp.
You need yet another alt, just to be able to play well in PvP in TB.
And there's no way TB could work in towns.
TB just isn't meant to be in an open world MMO game.
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Well, ill be sticking to Fonline 2238 till the end.
I still have hope and faith.
It wont be long on the FOT server before they all start crying about this, nerf that bullshit.
However it would be nice if we got some kind of progress update, or a mention of what there working on.
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A wise sith lord once said I find your lack of faith disturbing and almost choked a guy to death.
You see fonline is a like a tree...
... Ok you got me I don't have any words of wisdom after that.
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A wise sith lord once said I find your lack of faith disturbing and almost choked a guy to death.
You see fonline is a like a tree...
... Ok you got me I don't have any words of wisdom after that.
Although it's growth is slow, it's roots go deep and it rises upwards with time.
We, the birds of paradise, make our nests in its branches and peck each others eyes out for no apparent reason.
Some birds even hate the tree for the fact that it's a tree and attempt to flee to the next tree. Even though the foliage is different, the birds stay the same.
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Although it's growth is slow, it's roots go deep and it rises upwards with time.
We, the birds of paradise, make our nests in its branches and peck each others eyes out for no apparent reason.
Some birds even hate the tree for the fact that it's a tree and attempt to flee to the next tree. Even though the foliage is different, the birds stay the same.
Thats a great metaphore. :D
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Although it's growth is slow, it's roots go deep and it rises upwards with time.
We, the birds of paradise, make our nests in its branches and peck each others eyes out for no apparent reason.
Some birds even hate the tree for the fact that it's a tree and attempt to flee to the next tree. Even though the foliage is different, the birds stay the same.
nicely said, except there's no growth, at all
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Fot is updated every day. New features every few day. Hundrets of idea and devs speak with players. Fot will kill dieing 2238
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its too soon to say that , and actually its very unlikely
after many little updates they will finally say thats it , and whinning will begin..
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I dont think so. Fot is elastic and probably it will consume fode ideas.
More factions : raiders, mutants, ghouls, bounty hunters, bos, ghouls
Most quests from fode. Fode crafting...and tactical features
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Fot is updated every day. New features every few day. Hundrets of idea and devs speak with players. Fot will kill dieing 2238
Nobody has to kill anyone :) Less anger people, enjoy new FOnline games and more choice you have.
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Fot is updated every day. New features every few day. Hundrets of idea and devs speak with players. Fot will kill dieing 2238
CSBarter again spam... wasn't it enough to spam ingame?
Anyway, for me it's better that most of PvP guys going to FoT. I feel more safe than before.
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FoT feels fresh and alive yet very familiar, it's hard to explain. I do get some of the same thrill I got when I first started playing 2238 a year ago. I have only scratched the surface, I certainly hope FoT contains the depth and bredth of what 2238 used to have that was "magic". (but sadly has been dispelled....)
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At the moment FoT is pure pvp server, way much better than 2238. Like Xenom wrote in one of his posts, it's cool server to have some fun after school/work/and stuff. But 2238 still got turn-based mode - an essential thing for me, crafting and gathering system - stuff which I guess we will not see in FoT for a long time or never.
We all know that Devs from 2238 will release new update sooner or later and we all know that all of us will come back on this server to enjoy it again for several months...and so on, and so on...
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At the moment FoT is pure pvp server, way much better than 2238...
And you think everyone likes pvp?
Actually I don't like it myself, and I'm totally sure that there are others too.
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And you think everyone likes pvp?
Actually I don't like it myself, and I'm totally sure that there are others too.
Dude, please read all my post. I wrote that atm all that FoT can offer is a PvP and 2238 even if not updated in last months still got much to offer.
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And you think everyone likes pvp?
Actually I don't like it myself, and I'm totally sure that there are others too.
FOT has the same RP capabilities, or whatever you want, as 2238 :)
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FOT has the same RP capabilities, or whatever you want, as 2238 :)
... close to none? :>
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... close to none? :>
No!
Infinitely close to none!
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well you can roleplay garbage hoarder
like in those tv documents about people with obsessions :)
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No!
Infinitely close to none!
You cannot divide by zero.
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You cannot divide by zero.
oh yes you can, just not zero by zero ;)
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Well, you see, Mike, people complain because this game used to be hell of a lot better and more fun... I remember when I started playing last January, it was the coolest game EVER back then (at least for me)... Where you could actually find people hanging around all cities, not only NCR like now, which is btw overpopulated mostly by hardcore trolls now (me included)... Not a day passed that I didn't encounter some other player while travelling. I didn't mind grinding and farming because I knew it would surely pay off later, and even that could be actually fun. Not that I don't like the game anymore, tho, it's just that... I still love it, but it's a shame to watch all this potential go to waste :-[
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yeah, last season, people hung out at den, redding hub. Now only ncr to idle and give each other cuddles and sis kisses.....
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Server is so empty that i stock my gausses in random city lockers. also ive moved to modoc, to balthas house. Its small, but i can handle.
after all, we all have to admit: its not that simple, to make MMO game single player:))
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Was there at least one word from administration about all those rollbacks, their reasons and ways to fix them? Do they need more money for a better server, or some time for coding or something else? All i see is less and less people playing every day and those are playing are staying passive all day because doing something is useless as you'll lose it in next 15-20 minutes because of next rollback.
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It is so sad...:( no it inst ;D let this game die in peace :)
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I don't understand this bitching about FoT and 2238. Come on people, this FoT is the new server and it's not super-duper awesome that it's updated very frequently it's the normal thing. If you really don't like this 2238 just leave it and go play this FoT or whatever you want. This is pointless to post bazillions of topics "server y u online?" "wtf devs?!" "lol fot is better, hurr hurr".... damn it. What the hell is wrong with you, people?!
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they like to whine :D i don't play this anymore but i should whine more about it :)
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I don't understand this bitching about FoT and 2238. Come on people, this FoT is the new server and it's not super-duper awesome that it's updated very frequently it's the normal thing. If you really don't like this 2238 just leave it and go play this FoT or whatever you want. This is pointless to post bazillions of topics "server y u online?" "wtf devs?!" "lol fot is better, hurr hurr".... damn it. What the hell is wrong with you, people?!
They are pussies or 12 years old, and got too much things in life for free, and thus they don't get what they did get from Rotators, and they do not respect it, which is sad.
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Perteks, you just shown total your total retardness, and writing such posts just shows how community retarded is, keep coming with those posts <aplause>.
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They are pussies or 12 years old, and got too much things in life for free, and thus they don't get what they did get from Rotators, and they do not respect it, which is sad.
Well I don't know these people irl so I don't know and I don't care who they are. Just think they need more chill 'n' patience.
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Hohohoh tomowolf dont know what sarcasm is it
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.../some random shit/...
yeah man, youre mature:) now go and dig some rocks.
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yeah man, youre mature:) now go and dig some rocks.
Even If Iam not mature by age , still Iam not acting like retarded kid , which "I wan game NAO UPTATE noob dews"...
If you still don't understand ,you're in that group.
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(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/152/4/3/laughable_insults_by_rushandruleit-d51y0y2.gif)
lolz :)
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Tomowolf cool story bro tell me more :D
Well, thats true, I don't need to say that again in 3 or more posts -.-'.
Anyway good moderator will junk some posts, because most of yours there are useless ( in this topic), so please...
BTW There is more happening on forums , than in game, maybe mods on forum got also rollbacked?
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It's not for you to decide whether that is acceptable or not , moderators think otherwise , they are still here. If you don't like reading something on this board well then nobody is forcing you to " consume " any information given here on this forum by any player, you always have the option to ignore.
How do you call then "all-day-whiners" when they play free game?
By the way , since when a free game determines it's own quality , because it is free ?
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I have not donated so I cannot whine about a free game.
edit: but I do anyway.
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I have donated (twice) so I can whine about a free game (twice).
But I don't.
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Keep dreaming, you can't whine about anything, your not buying a product when donating. I'm sure the server will go on in any state, there will be players who will donate, so just wait for the usual ' hey give us money, we love you so much.' Players of course will donate because a developer showed up to write something, like it changes something.
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Keep dreaming, you can't whine about anything, your not buying a product when donating. I'm sure the server will go on in any state, there will be players who will donate, so just wait for the usual ' hey give us money, we love you so much.' Players of course will donate because a developer showed up to write something, like it changes something.
T-888 , its me or you don't understand something.
If players won't donate - Devs will just shut down the server for players, and just make it up for testing puproses on their own pc , its just simple.
I do not understand that whole whine-threads.
FOnline is not a "by studio" made game, but by fanbase and amateur developers, which don't get money for it, and they do not work in that type of work IRL.
Its not like some Korean Student made a MMO for their lesson, but a game in a test phase, when all players (yes, not testers) want to everything run on 100%, want each week new concent, because they're bored.
The problem lies in playerbase and that "retarded" community which still don't get its not "yet another free mmorpg on the internets", sometimes I see players they "threaten" to leave for other free MMORPG which is just hilarous and stupid.
Please change your sate (not only your T-888), but all testers if you wish to have fun once more.
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I wish it was made by korean students, they have deadlines and strive for excellence. Right now we have soviet era servers using gears and levers and a team of drunk russian scientists making exploding moon rockets.
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I wish it was made by korean students, they have deadlines and strive for excellence. Right now we have soviet era servers using gears and levers and a team of drunk russian scientists making exploding moon rockets.
lol wtf??? stereotypes too the max!
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I think your right, you don't understand something, i'm not complaining about anything right now. Read my post again and think very hard why did i wrote that post, before you start providing obsolete information i already know. Why do you think i wrote that, when donating your not buying a product? Why did i wrote that you can't whine about anything, basically have no right? Have you heard about a thing called common sense?
The problem lies in playerbase and that "retarded" community
Tomowolf, your post really convinced me of that.
If players won't donate - Devs will just shut down the server for players, and just make it up for testing puproses on their own pc , its just simple.
So much players left these days, that would be such a horrible thing right? Please. Server is in such a bad shape, i don't care much more than developers if this server is running or not, or have you forgot that they don't really care too?
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I wish I was made by korean students[...]
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