RA1024's SERVER IS THE PLACE TO BE !!

[Egis]

when im loging in its times out.... where is problem?

[RA1024]

There was a problem this morning with the machine the emperor server runs on.  It's a problem with the bios that keeps the machine from booting up during a restart.  I've fixed it once but it looks like the bios lost the patch somehow.  I think the server rebooted at some point due to all the storms we've had recently.

[fedaykyn]

Ra I was wondering if you could add a support if Im in game and some1 pages me it would make a noise and a different noise when my allie wants me.

[erjin999]

Lol. I think thats nothing to do with the server but everything to do with the game.

[GUNWOUNDS]

its called empbot.. download it

[RA1024]

Do you mean while you're playing?  I can't make the game do anything like play a sound as that's part of the game code which I can't change.

[GUNWOUNDS]

if your ally wants you he can page you i guess.......

[spicy]

humm..  sounds like very coplicated  request . anyway who are you fedaykin i never saw u playing befor . in additon i find that the server is complicated enough as it is now and i recomend that ra should start  minimizing the function just in case he got tierd of all this stress i think  nothing rong with beeing simple speacialy if u are not getting paid for ure time and equipment.

  and a have a request lol.... ;D  ra  can u put a backround to the web??  i recomend gunwound

  to desing it......... it looks ugly with that black and white

[GUNWOUNDS]

fedakyn is an old player spicy....he hasnt played in awhile i think.

the white background is a little hard on the eyes.... maybe RA could do a simple change like making the background black and the font white/yellow.... that would be easier on the eyes.

[Megashrap]

  ra  can u put a backround to the web??  i recomend gunwound

  to desing it......... it looks ugly with that black and white

You want fries with that also?

[spicy]

  well not bad gun. or it can even be like the  dune2k.page

  hey scar i didnt see u replying on that guy  asking for a pager sound inside the game and a deffrent  sound  if the message was from the web..... i mean it sound so complicated

  i just  noticed that the web needs some cover its as simple as putting a desktop backround.

i was even telling ra that we can live without many of those server obtion he just seem to put

a lot of work in it.i mean xwis never added any thing and we were still ok there.

[erjin999]

I bet most of us would agree we are happier to be able to, for example, tell if there are any other games hosted while in a host ourselves. Something XWIS doesnt do...

[Elerium]

Hey there, can you help me?

I've tried using the RA server, typed everything in, but when i come to log in, this horrible message called: "Bad Password" keeps coming in and i've typed everything write it just won't let me in :'(

[RA1024]

What nick are you trying to login with?  I'll check and see if someone has already registered it.

[Elerium]

I login with either Xenonk, Imperator, UrQuan01 thanks for helping :) I really want to play Emperor with some others :D

[RA1024]

I checked and those nicks are available so you're probably not setup to go the server.

To test it, pull up a dos prompt ( start menu->run->"cmd" or start menu->run->"command").  In the dos prompt type "ping servserv.westwood.com" and press enter. 

If it says "reply from 72.17.137.93 or something similar, you're setup correctly and the problem lies elsewhere.  If it says "reply from 159.153.208.17", you're still pointing to WOL.  If it says "reply from 195.13.63.187" you're pointing to xwis.

If you're not pointing to the correct ip (72.17.137.93) then you'll want to check out Erjin's instructions here http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=15876.0 and go to step 4.  If you use method A, you'll need to change the ip from 195.13.63.187 to 72.17.137.93 as we don't play on that ip any longer.

[erjin999]

Well spotted Ra, its now corrected. So if you do need to repoint your game to the correct server, just follow either Step 4 Method A or B (A is easier ;)).

[Elerium]

Well spotted Ra, its now corrected. So if you do need to repoint your game to the correct server, just follow either Step 4 Method A or B (A is easier ;)).

Something is terribly wrong still!

Look, I post pics of what i'm doing...

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/3006/huh8wy.jpg

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/9255/bzzzzzt2la.jpg

I can play in Xwis perfectly, and connect to Westwood online on other Westwood games like RA2/YR too  ???

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/2026/justwhenitsalmostthere8ib.jpg

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/7126/fatalerror4049go.jpg

[Lance_Leader]

yes mines doing the same thing i put the ip in and it does the bad pass thing  >:( *must kill ip* >:(

[desert_storm]

whenever i finish a game and it returns to the lobby, it freezes or says it lost it's connection to the server.  And... sometimes when I am viewing the lobbey, it freezes and nothing happend when i click any of the buttons. 

[Voodoo Daddy]

Just a thought, because i'm not a 'Puter expert, but I remember something like this happening before, when Olaf required strong passwords. Is your server set up the same, Ra? Do you require strong passwords? Mine works fine, but it's the same Password I used on xwis.

[Lance_Leader]

??? strong passwords ???

[Voodoo Daddy]

1hjc5q88bzz = Strong = random sequence of letters and numbers

bob = Weak

[Elerium]

So to play on this server I need a password with 12fhu2489nn? something along those lines?

[RA1024]

I found the problem.  One of the recent changes broke the new nick creation code.  I've fixed it and you should be able to login now.

Sorry for the trouble.