Boxcar Announcement - Earth Empires Forum

Pang

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May 7th 2012, 17:47:50

Hi,

Due to all the stupid drama TC is trying to cause me and my lack of time to deal with it, I've repointed Boxcar's URLs to the EE server.

Right now, it's pointing to Evo's site. That's just the box's default settings, it's not a political statement. It will point to EE shortly.

Boxcar will be moved ASAP with backed up data.

Apologies for the crazy issues. I wish they didn't happen in the first place.

Cheers,
Dave

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Boxcar - Earth Empires Clan & Alliance Hosting
http://www.boxcarhosting.com

ViLSE

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May 7th 2012, 18:21:41

Not a worry, thanks for letting us know.

Dibs Ludicrous

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May 7th 2012, 18:23:14

seems like atarchive.gotdns.org is still pointing to TC's machine. so, if you want to use TC's boxcar...

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Atryn

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May 7th 2012, 18:52:08

where are our spy-op auto-uploads going?

Marshal

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May 7th 2012, 19:13:06

tc's site i think

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BAMM

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May 7th 2012, 19:23:29

yikes

BAMM

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May 7th 2012, 19:24:23

is this TC guy banned from the game now then?
what happened?

Dibs Ludicrous

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May 7th 2012, 19:29:40

La Family Feud

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Atryn

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May 7th 2012, 19:32:10

No actually, the spy-ops aren't uploading to TC's site. My guess is the upload api from EE still points to boxcarhosting.com and they aren't going anywhere until it is up and running again?

Dibs Ludicrous

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May 7th 2012, 19:35:04

i'd guess the same, but what if the Evolution site can accept the uploads? meh. they probably need an API key to accept the upload.

and for BAMM:
http://forums.earthempires.com/...ecurity-breaches-cheating

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Marshal

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May 7th 2012, 20:13:59

spyops goto tc's site or dev null.

Nuketon

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May 7th 2012, 21:57:20

What is the point of redirecting the URL's away from boxcar before an alternative is up and running? All this seems to do is prevent most of its users from accessing boxcar and its tools unless they are savvy enough to look here for an explanation/find the URL to access boxcar.

locket

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May 7th 2012, 22:35:26

You should have waited until an alternative was up. You just gave big advantages to those with their own site for no reason.

Pang

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May 7th 2012, 22:59:26

sorry, locket.

the only person you have to blame is TC.

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qzjul

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May 8th 2012, 0:43:34

Evo's site couldn't accept the uploads because they point to a different url. It now points at the forums.

Also I was sleeping while this happened, so sorry about the evo2025 stuff earlier.

Finally did the signature thing.

Silent Sentinel

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May 8th 2012, 5:28:29

With your update to Earth, can you put in more cowbell?

Pang

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May 8th 2012, 5:57:27

OK, Boxcar is back up for forums only. I'll get the news dbs set up tomorrow, but I gotta head to bed. It's currently up on the game server, as I said before, but that's just a stopgap until we figure out a better longer term option and I'm not incredibly busy IRL.

As a longer term update, the "resolution" will likely be open sourcing Boxcar before too awful long.

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Forgotten

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May 8th 2012, 7:24:28

so, boxcar is hosting on evo's server now?

i'm never logging in again

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Dibs Ludicrous

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May 8th 2012, 8:14:05

that would also mean that the game is being hosted on evo's server.

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iZarcon

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May 8th 2012, 10:25:05

yes.. EE has always been hosted on evo's server.

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archaic

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May 8th 2012, 13:51:51

Originally posted by Forgotten:

so, boxcar is hosting on evo's server now?

i'm never logging in again

promise?

:)

The entire EE experiment has always been user built and managed. Players like Pang, QZ, and Slagpit built the game because they liked to play the game. EE is just not big enough to support third part hosting guys. Let me ask you this, who WOULD you trust to host it? I can only think of 2-3 tags that have such minimal political involvement that a majority of EE would be comfortable with them hosting. Unless somebody from monsters, ICN, or Omega wants to step it up big time and host - we are going to be hosted by one of the Dev team. The dev team was primarily Laf and Evo, Laf had a shot and fluffed it up, now its Evo's turn.

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Forgotten

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May 8th 2012, 15:44:03

Wrong. Dev team was primarily EVO, and Pang.

Pang was in LaF just as long as he was in PDM.

LaF never fluffed anything up.

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Tertius

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May 8th 2012, 15:50:19

This may be some of the best trolling I've ever seen, Forgotten. Kudos.

Kalick

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May 8th 2012, 16:31:57

Originally posted by Forgotten:

LaF never fluffed anything up.

You crack me up.

Pang

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May 8th 2012, 17:53:58

don't troll announcement threads please. there's plenty of threads on AT for that.

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xaos

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May 8th 2012, 22:28:08

Originally posted by archaic:

*snip*
...2-3 tags that have such minimal political involvement that a majority of EE would be comfortable with them hosting. Unless somebody from monsters, ICN, or Omega...
*snip*

I feel slighted! :P

compyman

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May 10th 2012, 15:30:41

ahh

Warner

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May 10th 2012, 16:21:29

SoF

QM Diver

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Jun 30th 2012, 18:45:24

Ok so...

Is this where I find out if our site's file manager, Log manager, Alliance Manager, will ever work again?

The common message is 'The requested URL /portal/viewFile.php was not found on this server.'

Will these things ever work again?

Thanks,

QM

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Marshal

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Jun 30th 2012, 19:24:00

they will work if you change capped letter to non-capped.

I totally agree with you that that is pain in ass especially Alliance Manager, it takes a while to change all alliances tags after new set has started.