Test Server down?

[hullekes]

27-7-2013 and till 23:58h. TSO test server. And 28-7-2013 3:42h

NOT FOUND

The requested URL /en/homepage was not found on this server.

[Sinister-King]

Hello!

The testing server and homepage do appear to be down.

I believe this is only temporary, the development team will get it back online as soon as possible .

Sinister-King

[hullekes]

27-7-2013 till 28-7-2013 3:42h --6:20h not fixed
TSO test server - homepage result:

NOT FOUND

The requested URL /en/homepage was not found on this server.

Hello hullekes,

Please do not open multiple threads on the same subject .

Your post has been merged into this thread.

Sinister-King

[Sto_Helit]

Evony

Look up this game... it's f2p and their service is outstanding... BB just does not think TSO has a future as good as other games and that why we are still in a flash environment, no pvp, no weekend service, etc

I've tried Evony and didn't like it much - it's got even more pay for stupid stuff than TSO, even more players that can't seem to read the instructions and a lot of male players that seem to have been duped into playing via some 'interesting' adverts. It may work as a f2p with high churn and low expectations of the players, but it's not necessarily a model that BB should be considering. How about treating players like intelligent human beings that can work out the odd bit of strategy and will buy gems for useful objects. The high-churn/low expectation f2p model is based on players being fools and easily duped into parting with their money. Therefore the calibre of players in the game tends to sink to the lowest common denominator and the game ends up being just another trite pvp game in a sea of pvp games.

If you want the 24/7 service and that particular model of f2p, then be prepared to accept the consequences of that. If you didn't like the 20th Anniversary Event, be prepared for even more in exactly the same vein.

[Dorotheus]

There's no point comparing Evony with this game, both games are aimed at different gaming demographics.

That both server and forums are down point to something more serious than a simple failure the nature of which I refuse to speculate on. One thing is for sure BB if they have any common sense will be launching an investigation into what happened and asking themselves how can we prevent the same happening to the live servers. This will not because of how they feel about us but because such an event here will kill the money supply from gem sales, their investors will not be happy about that.

Due to the nature of the failure even when they get it fixed it could take upto 72 hours for the DNS servers across the web to become aware that the site is back up, so don't expect to be able to log back in as soon as it's fixed.

[Driller7]

http://screencast.com/t/DdEs6nvDS

[Jamesll]

This is the second day we've been unable to reach TSO. I appreciate there may not be 24/7 support but some sort of notice would have been appreciated, a simple common courtesy certainly not beyond BB.

[Baggis]

There's no point comparing Evony with this game, both games are aimed at different gaming demographics.

That both server and forums are down point to something more serious than a simple failure the nature of which I refuse to speculate on. One thing is for sure BB if they have any common sense will be launching an investigation into what happened and asking themselves how can we prevent the same happening to the live servers. This will not because of how they feel about us but because such an event here will kill the money supply from gem sales, their investors will not be happy about that.

Due to the nature of the failure even when they get it fixed it could take upto 72 hours for the DNS servers across the web to become aware that the site is back up, so don't expect to be able to log back in as soon as it's fixed.

DNS propagation is irrelevant unless they have changed IP address. A website being down has no bearing on DNS caching or propagation. DNS is not aware if a website is available or not.

[Casparo]

Not Found

The requested URL /en/play was not found on this server.

It was working fine yesterday but now it is down. Tried it on a few browsers and still the same answer

[Iolanthe]

http://screencast.com/t/DdEs6nvDS

Here's the post if anyone's curious:

There is a major failure of a data center, where the air conditioning is down. This also affected the test server.
Will worked on it. greeting Pandur

Original on .de

I'm afraid there's nothing more/new yet.