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General BattleTech => General Discussion => Topic started by: Red Pins on May 26, 2017, 01:10:36 AM
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I haven't had any luck with the official site for a couple days now, anybody else having difficulties?
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I haven't had any luck with the official site for a couple days now, anybody else having difficulties?
yes, hopeful fixed quick
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Just last night for me thought it was phone connection
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Yep, looks like it is down.
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It appears to be several of the CGL related sites. C'est la vie.
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Sand, hope it's nothing earth-shattering.
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Yep, looks like it is down.
Just when I had finished my newest character :P
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Well it looks like it is back up again!
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I guess its down again, not been able to get on for 2 days now.
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They either need to hire professionals ( I don't think Worktroll or JHB are computer professionals) to run the website and/or find a better server farm to host their sites. Two outages in less than 30 days is an outrage.
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I haven't been able to access the official Battletech sites the last 2 days either.
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it's the couple of days outage a month that let's everyone calm down a bit after making comments :P
Annoying as hell but OBT is still up so I've been updating my merc thread here if anyone is interested not updating the main stuff until the main site is up too
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The website is down because of a maintenance that was non announced to CBT.
They are moving the website to a new server.
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Hopefully that will resolve all problems. ;)
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https://www.facebook.com/battletechgame/posts/10154700752713148 (https://www.facebook.com/battletechgame/posts/10154700752713148)
For those wondering
EDIT I was beaten to it
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Said website craziness has led me here. Though, to be 100% honest, I probably should've wandered over this way well before now.
Also, hi! ;D
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Welcome lots of fun stuff here
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Thanks man. I hope to contribute to the fun stuff as well as read it :D
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Always welcome to contribute here
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Always good to see a new profile :)
Welcome and please have fun. :D
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EDIT I was beaten to it
By an Ice Hellion :P
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EDIT I was beaten to it
By an Ice Hellion :P
Well at least it wasn't by a Ghost Bear at least it was something quick, with no armour and no idea where they were going ;)
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EDIT I was beaten to it
By an Ice Hellion :P
Speed is life huh? ;D
Welcome to OBT Suralin.
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They either need to hire professionals ( I don't think Worktroll or JHB are computer professionals) to run the website and/or find a better server farm to host their sites. Two outages in less than 30 days is an outrage.
The forum admins aren't in charge of the servers. They're in charge of the moderators and control the policies and decisions about how the forums are run. (Also, Worktroll isn't an admin anymore, he's the forum ombudsman and handles appeals from the admins. The admins are JadeHellbringer and God and Davion.)
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing the place back up and running. Last I heard, maintenance was ongoing to bring things up with a new server (https://twitter.com/CGL_BattleTech).
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EDIT I was beaten to it
By an Ice Hellion :P
Well at least it wasn't by a Ghost Bear at least it was something quick, with no armour and no idea where they were going ;)
I am both. Beware of my speedy fury!!!
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Breaks out the munch Mech with targeting computer and pulse lasers "now hold still..."
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Breaks out the munch Mech with targeting computer and pulse lasers "now hold still..."
*Counters with a Hellstar and its PPC-filled munchiness*
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Artillery strike!! Where are those damned ARROWS?
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Artillery strike!! Where are those damned ARROWS?
Arrows? Here in the Inner Sphere, we have Thumpers, and we like it like that!
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Any news on the forum or website, everything still looks like it is out over there?
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Artillery strike!! Where are those damned ARROWS?
Arrows? Here in the Inner Sphere, we have Thumpers, and we like it like that!
I'll take your thumpers and raise you an air strike
Nah I haven't seen anything new bookmark dead even a google search finds nothing
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Well if anyone has info please let us know here. ;)
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Best guess, next week something. My personal guess, next Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
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Short form, the last backup is proving a pain to restore. Too big (apparently the backup used to take 2.5 days. This may be a system issue as well as a size issue).
They're trying to get a smaller restore going.
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Worktroll out of curiosity does that mean old forums wiped?
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Not necessarily. Goal is to get everything back. But at this point, issues.
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Thanks for the update Worktroll! ;)
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Artillery strike!! Where are those damned ARROWS?
Arrows? Here in the Inner Sphere, we have Thumpers, and we like it like that!
I'll take your thumpers and raise you an air strike
Nah I haven't seen anything new bookmark dead even a google search finds nothing
Two words,
ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT
From the CIC on the bridge of an orbiting McKenna, the Captain speaks "Guns, all portside batteries engage ground targets. When the ammo is dry, then roll 180 and engage starboard batteries. I want that planet covered in dust."
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I was waiting to do that :( 8)
I'll counter your orbital bombardment from a ship with no AMS with ground launched nuclear tipped capital missiles as we take this thread far off topic
The things gamers do when bored (keep it clean)
Must say I do like the additional energy here since the BT crash not that I want it to go on too long (and we're back on topic :D)
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I'd be tempted to one-up your orbital bombardment and do a crossover, bringing in a GTVA battlegroup from Freespace. Upon reflection, tho, I'm fairly certain the McKenna would win pretty decisively unless the Tevs stay at a distance and rely entirely on bombers. :p
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Must say I do like the additional energy here since the BT crash not that I want it to go on too long (and we're back on topic :D)
I suspect it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Without people coming by, there's nothing going on, so anyone who comes by doesn't feel like doing it again after the first few problems.
Getting something going with a little momentum would help because you could drive some traffic here from the main boards with a post or two.
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I'd be tempted to one-up your orbital bombardment and do a crossover, bringing in a GTVA battlegroup from Freespace. Upon reflection, tho, I'm fairly certain the McKenna would win pretty decisively unless the Tevs stay at a distance and rely entirely on bombers. :p
Got to have a little fun keeps it from becoming boring
Moonsword I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Sometimes feels like it's easier to be constructive here less complaints about nothing new more about developing ideas given that things are generally AU based on OBT
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Time for my shopping-mall analogy.
The BT forums are the shopping mall; lots of different audiences, but there have to be rules & conditions that suit most people. Forums like this are more like the bar in "Cheers", 'where everybody knows your name', and which don't have to worry about more than their particular clientele.
Which makes the mods & admins on BT.com mall cops, I realise full well :)
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Do you at least get segways to roll around on? ;D
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Do you at least get segways to roll around on? ;D
That'd be kinda cool to see ;D
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Hey, you gotta be GW to get Segways. And then only the people working in Forgeworld get'em :)
For CGL, they send us a picture of rollerskates we paste on our knees 8)
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Do you at least get segways to roll around on? ;D
See you went that way and I thought OBT=Cheers... who's who ;D
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Which makes the mods & admins on BT.com mall cops, I realise full well :)
Which makes you the grizzled chief in the back office wishing we'd pipe down and let you build your model boats in peace?
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Well, one good thing about having the official forum down; I have seven pages of rough events I need to match up with dates.
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I've designed seven combined arms battalions, a Level III, and a Clan Galaxy (two binaries and a trinary), 90% from unpainted minis I currently own or have on order.
No, I don't have a problem.
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I've designed seven combined arms battalions, a Level III, and a Clan Galaxy (two binaries and a trinary), 90% from unpainted minis I currently own or have on order.
No, I don't have a problem.
Yes, you do. All of your minis should be painted.
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I've designed seven combined arms battalions, a Level III, and a Clan Galaxy (two binaries and a trinary), 90% from unpainted minis I currently own or have on order.
No, I don't have a problem.
Yes, you do. All of your minis should be painted.
Also that's not a Galaxy :'(
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D'oh!
Still no joy on the BT forums being up. However, the CGL site is back up after being down for a day or two.
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I've designed seven combined arms battalions, a Level III, and a Clan Galaxy (two binaries and a trinary), 90% from unpainted minis I currently own or have on order.
No, I don't have a problem.
I have a ream of register tape that I've scrawled some mech and (mostly IS) Proto design stats on, and I spent a while entering some of them into the computer. One of these days I need to learn Java so I can modify one of the programs and not have to manually finagle the stats in notepad afterwards.
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D'oh!
Still no joy on the BT forums being up. However, the CGL site is back up after being down for a day or two.
Well its a start.
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D'oh!
Still no joy on the BT forums being up. However, the CGL site is back up after being down for a day or two.
Well its a start.
So are the Shadowrun sites. It's the BattleTech sites that are proving to be difficult to bring back up.
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Its up. I'm not seeing a lot of pictures and stuff, but it's up.
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Well it looks like the forum is back up and running folks.
Hope everyone comes back to visit here once and awhile. ;)
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Well it looks like the forum is back up and running folks.
Hope everyone comes back to visit here once and awhile. ;)
Here, here
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Well it looks like the forum is back up and running folks.
Not for me.
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Well it looks like the forum is back up and running folks.
Not for me.
Me neither it doesn't recognise my account, password or email
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Back up & running, but on a two week old backup. Problems with the most recent one, it seems. And some functionality still needs to be put back.
W.
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Me neither it doesn't recognise my account, password or email
I've raised that issue internally although I suspect the appropriate person was already aware of it. In the meantime, please do not create new accounts. Just bear with us while we try to get everything fixed.
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Me neither it doesn't recognise my account, password or email
I've raised that issue internally although I suspect the appropriate person was already aware of it. In the meantime, please do not create new accounts. Just bear with us while we try to get everything fixed.
Most appreciated I actually thought it might be my browser (safari) on phone with all the issues going on I was going to wait a few days either way before complaining too loudly
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Oh it's not just you. worktroll and I can post (for the moment) but we've gotten reports over IM or email from multiple others. At this point, we're going to have to wait until someone who knows how to fix it has the right access and time to do that.
EDIT: Nope, I'm out too on my desktop. Wheeeeeee!
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OBT still here though
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http://bg.battletech.com/news/forum-issues/
Still having some issues. Please don't create a second account if you're having problems; give the back-of-house guys a chance to see what needs fixing.
W.
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I can post and yes the backup is two weeks old
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The current 504 errors are being reported up the chain. We'll post again once we know something useful.
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Sounds like they are working out a few kinks, please stand bye.
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Yeah, basically.
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Do I need to notify someone if I can't post (getting the time-out error)?
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Nope, I've already passed that along to the right party after running into it myself.
Thanks for making sure we were aware of it, though.
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Do I need to notify someone if I can't post (getting the time-out error)?
I get same though I can log in now and see forums makes a change
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Looks like progress is being made. I can post over there again.
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There's an error I was seeing in the logs that's stopped, too.
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Well it looks as though things are getting back to normal, a few tweaks here and there.
All is nearly well!
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Still the odd glitch, mainly where we were non-standard, but the extended smilies are back!
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And now the 504 error is back to haunt us.
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Is it dead again? Been trying to get on all afternoon.
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It's been on and off
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Been down for me all morning. Official forums asplode? :o
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I've had no luck today.
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Argh, and I still need to copy all my stuff over.
It must be an order of magnitude more frustrating for the guys trying to fix it, tho.
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Yup, it's down again. Don't know why.
I know they were looking at the 503 & 504 errors folks were getting intermittently. Well, they're not intermittent now :)
Also weekend in US. That's one thing about professionals - you live, and die, by the SLA.
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Well we are still here, welcome and post away!
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So funny story, after participating in the thread on the official boards detailing Harmony Gold's latest legal assault on the battletech brand, I decided to change my avatar there to the cover of Campaign Operations as a childish act of defiance.
The board's been throwing up 504 errors ever since. I killed it! :-[ :P
EDIT: Then it came back right after I posted this. Apparently the fictional gods of internet justice demanded a confession. ;D
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I did get 504'd last night but I doubt you bought down the boards they just seem shaky lately.
To be honest after all of the intellectual property conflicts with the brand I am surprised more lawsuits have not occurred.
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Urf...and I'm getting 504's now too.
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These constant 504 errors are fricking annoying
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These constant 504 errors are fricking annoying
HG spam bots doing DDOS? ;D
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These constant 504 errors are fricking annoying
HG spam bots doing DDOS? ;D
Hah quite possibly, its been down again a good chunk of today again as well.
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These constant 504 errors are fricking annoying
HG spam bots doing DDOS? ;D
Hah quite possibly, its been down again a good chunk of today again as well.
A 504 Gateway Timeout error is not at all uncommon for a DDOS attack, so I wasn't entirely joking in my comment. Basically, the server's not responding to all the requests it's getting fast enough, so you end up with a 504 error.
I'm sure the timing of when things started getting really bad and the HG lawsuit being filed are completely coincidental.
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I've noticed the issues and we're reaching out to our back end folks.
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Hopefully it's just a load balancer issue or something and easily fixed.
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I'm sorry, but this crap has got to stop. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
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Fingers crossed lets hope its resolved soon. And I will note that its still blennied up even now.
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You Brits and your slang.
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You Brits and your slang.
U WOT M8! I SWEAR ON ME MUM!!!
Blennied is a good word! It indicates somethings broken without being vulgar.
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You Brits and your slang.
Com'on you've got to love a wee bitty of slang :) should come to Scotland it's all we speak in heehee
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I didn't say I didn't like it. You people of the British Isles do have a colorful way with words.
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You Brits and your slang.
Com'on you've got to love a wee bitty of slang :) should come to Scotland it's all we speak in heehee
And you guys swear so wonderfully. Especially with a Glasgee accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpVhSx0fZwM&ytbChannel=Twigy
Warning - vulgar as all hell. But very amusing.
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I dinnae ken how a Scot could even understand that myself. Thankfully, it was subtitled.
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I didn't say I didn't like it. You people of the British Isles do have a colorful way with words.
What should you say about me?
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I dinnae ken how a Scot could even understand that myself. Thankfully, it was subtitled.
Scot's aren't the worst, because of work I get to speak with peeps from all over the UK, understanding Glaswegian isn't an issue, welsh on the other hand sheesh!
Of course the poor sods on the other end of the phone have to understand my janner accent, but that's e joy of being from plymuff innit?
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Welsh, Geordie, cockney, Scouse, Weegie it can be fun it's funny seeing faces trying to understand the accent I'm north east Scotland and apparently have a far broader accent than I think lol
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For a small set of islands we do have a large number of accents.
Kind of back on track, I placed an order recently for the two combat manuals, TRO3145 and a lance pack, all were listed as available when ordered, have now had the order cancelled as my supplier cannot get them, 1 listed as unavailable and the other 3 as waiting for stock unknown when available. I'm hoping its just a blip but given everything else that's going on at the moment i'm not confident that it is.
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It has crapped out again.
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Urf :( Yep, dead for me too.
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Working fine as of 8 AM Pacific time.
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So has anyone had any luck logging into the site over the past couple of days? Just asking.
Alexi
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About 0800BST I was on but since then it's down again
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It's offline again. Yet another day in which the site is inaccessible. *sigh*
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So has anyone had any luck logging into the site over the past couple of days? Just asking.
Alexi
Nope, between that and the fact I can't buy any of the books i've kind of given up trying as well.
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Yeah its still fecked, but it was working just fine earlier so I've no idea if it will be working later. I had typical errors like this from about 0900 - 1000 ish UK time each day, and then it comes up later.
We'll have to see though.
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Its intermittent. I'll get on once, then not again for a day of so. I actually put a new thread about the Tortoise BA on both forums, it will be interesting comparing views and comments when I get back on.
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It was up for what, 30 minutes ish before it went down. AGAIN.
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Well, this is certainly a way for CGL not to retain loyal customers and fans
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Well, this is certainly a way for CGL not to retain loyal customers and fans
Its not that bad, its not like they have gone and declared themselves to be holocaust deniers or anything. Its more vexxing and irritating than anything overly bad, its just frustrating. I hope it gets fixed though.
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In the meantime we've got OBT to post in and discuss this great universe ;D (my glass is half full)
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In the meantime we've got OBT to post in and discuss this great universe ;D (my glass is half full)
Indeed :) Oh and DC i'm gonna PM you something in a bit. Would love to hear thoughts on it.
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The thing is that the CGL sites have been having issues now for well over a month and they brought folks who are alleged to be professionals and they still haven't fixed the problem(s). It's time to find a new bunch of professionals.
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There's life
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Indeed, it appears to be back. For how long though....
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Aaaaaaand its gone again :( :(
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Yikes, well we can always talk Battletech here. Feel free to post and let OBT be ur place for Battletech.
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Aaaaaaand its gone again :( :(
Glad I didn't waste my time looking.
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Yeah, I'm starting to consider this my primary Battletech site, the official forums secondary until they fix their crap, and Sarna a distant third.
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I am sure they will get it together.
On one of their lucid moments I ran over and got the link for the 2nd Succession War PDF. Intro really flips the lid on the Blake and Toyama relationship at least the Reformation Era view of it.
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It's working! It's working!
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It's working! It's working!
Oh no it isn't (yes we're in the panto worked fine earlier)
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It hasn't worked for about five hours now
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I just tried and got a "502 Bad Gateway error". It is what it is . . .
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Yep its blennied.
It's worse than that he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim!
It's worse than that he's dead Jim, dead Jim dead!
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"Blennied." What's the origin of that word anyway? Sounds almost like a Russian loan word (blin, "pancake", is used sort of like "dangit", IIRC, so maybe?)
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"Blennied." What's the origin of that word anyway? Sounds almost like a Russian loan word (blin, "pancake", is used sort of like "dangit", IIRC, so maybe?)
I'm not sure where it came from, my friend 'Mad Steve' (I'm Army Steve) use to use the word Blenny, like going to someone "You're a bit of a blenny ain't you.." and the Blenny is a fish;
(https://d11kavc4axrfgm.cloudfront.net/pet_care/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/30100119/rockskipper-blenny.jpg)
So I dunno! It's just a term we used to indicate something is broken/stupid/dumb. Its a polite catch all word to indicate somethings fecked or retarded.
According to Urban Dictionary its to do with Marajuana, but i'd not heard that until I JUST googled it.
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I'm posting my stuff here I'll update main site whenever
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I'm posting my stuff here I'll update main site whenever
Glad to hear it :)
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It what is now a twice daily occurrence, the main site is down yet again.
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It what is now a twice daily occurrence, the main site is down yet again.
Yep, here's some music to make it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_smBV2YBtk&ytbChannel=Timothy%20Seals
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdcjJoXeEY
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Hmmm...
Seems the Blakist 502nd Division has struck the site again :(
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Hey, at least it took a week (or so) for the 502nd to mount its counterattack.
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Yeah saw that this morning, I guess the Regulans didn't get all the Blakists on Circinus.
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Aye, must have taken time for the Manei Domini infiltrators to work their way into place before striking at critical targets. Bastards even tipped over the snack wagon.
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They'll pay for that!!
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Cool, the main site is coming up "Database problems".
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Lordy, what is causing the problem this time....i swear we can't get break.
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I thought it was just me lol
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Database error is a bit more serious than the 502 and 504 errors IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWcameJDow
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Database error is a bit more serious than the 502 and 504 errors IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWcameJDow
Yeah, that doesn't look good.
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There are signs of improvement as it has moved from a database error to a 504 Gateway error.
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I just got Gateway 502. Lordy, these guys can't get break. It happens on the weekend no less where no one around! :'(
I sent a message to Nic with Sarna.net. Maybe he can do something, i think he helps hosts the site.
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Oh no!! I thought I made it on yesterday for a quick check in the morning but it doesn't seem to be working for me right now either.
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It's back to database error now.
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My nets been out for a few days so I got back (its still out, i'm just at work now :p ) and it was down and I was like "Oh bugger..what is it this time.."
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Meh. I've moved on. Still go and lurk, but that's it.
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Look on the bright side OBT still works
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Look on the bright side OBT still works
We need get more people come over here. There something terribly wrong with the main website. This can't keep happening without losing more players.
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Look on the bright side OBT still works
https://youtu.be/jHPOzQzk9Qo
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Glad I archived all my threads after the last time. But if the database melts completely, a lot of cool stuff is going to get lost. Hopefully they can fix it.
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Look on the bright side OBT still works
https://youtu.be/jHPOzQzk9Qo
;D 8)
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So when did it crash, I was down with the flu this weekend
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So when did it crash, I was down with the flu this weekend
2 days ago
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From what i see, it went down mid Friday afternoon. I was posting on it when i on, around 2pm By 3 i noticed i could get on, getting that data error.
I'm curious who were suppose to contact. I can't imagine they haven't informed the company whom is suppose to be tending it.
I suspect since this happened on late Friday, the company will have to be trying restore it on Monday.
I think we may end up looking at a reset given our bad data thing is pretty bad. Clean slate maybe what going ultimately be the remedy to this on going issue.
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I just got on and so far am navigating the boards successfully. I'm not entirely sure yet if the boards mean it though.
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And it looks like we're up and running again. No data appears to have been lost.
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Any explanation of the cause?
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Still waiting.
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Time out errors again.
*Edit - Solved it with a reboot. Nevermind, nothing to see here.