EQEMU R.I.P. (for now at least)

[bigcountry23]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a "hardened" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

 

[AshburnerX]

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

 

[Dusty668]

Not a fan of the game, but damn, that sucks big time. All that work, design, and the pure imagination space just gone like that for one emotionally retarded...

Augh.

 

[Torrinn]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers including).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a "hardened" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

At any rate, I'll keep looking for more old spell data and fixing the errors that I can find in the spell file for when the server is back up. Hopefully it will be of use to someone.

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

What's really funny is that he is supposed to be a GM or dev on another EQEmu server. (It is suspected by many that it's someone from the Tallon/Vallon Zek rules PvP server who's been known to do this kind of thing before.) So by attacking the login server he screwed himself over because now his server is down along with the rest of them.

 

[Shegokigo]

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

Try harder.

 

[Deschain]

Try harder.

Looks like he will be if you know what I mean.

 

[Shegokigo]

 

[Deschain]

Clearly she's of age, she has makeup.

 

[bigcountry23]

P99 has moved back to the beta forums at http://classicbetatest.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=791307&gid=62867

Sounds like the login server has a temporary home as well. Not a perminent solution, but it will do for now.

 

[Shannow]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers including).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a \"hardened\" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

At any rate, I'll keep looking for more old spell data and fixing the errors that I can find in the spell file for when the server is back up. Hopefully it will be of use to someone.

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

What's really funny is that he is supposed to be a GM or dev on another EQEmu server. (It is suspected by many that it's someone from the Tallon/Vallon Zek rules PvP server who's been known to do this kind of thing before.) So by attacking the login server he screwed himself over because now his server is down along with the rest of them.[/quote]

There he is.

Seriously, kid...most of us here do not give a fuck about your little drama in a dead game. You specifically joined a forum where one, maybe two people posting here played on the server, and ranted on it on not one, but two(Jesus, really!?) alts.

Good for you, calling others out otherson no lives and girlfriends. really. best thing to do on the internet since 1997. you know, that year you were born ( OMG, I just called you a young teen! Holy crap!!!...thats the kind of argument insult you have been using here) Kudos. We do no care about you, and the hundred (maybe even two hundred, golly!) or so other players in the world spend your time looking for Everquest EMUs. Honestly, we do not.

Enjoy yourself.

 

[CynicismKills]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers including).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a \"hardened\" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

At any rate, I'll keep looking for more old spell data and fixing the errors that I can find in the spell file for when the server is back up. Hopefully it will be of use to someone.

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

What's really funny is that he is supposed to be a GM or dev on another EQEmu server. (It is suspected by many that it's someone from the Tallon/Vallon Zek rules PvP server who's been known to do this kind of thing before.) So by attacking the login server he screwed himself over because now his server is down along with the rest of them.[/quote]

There he is.

Seriously, kid...most of us here do not give a fuck about your little drama in a dead game. You specifically joined a forum where one, maybe two people posting here played on the server, and ranted on it on not one, but two(Jesus, really!?) alts.

Good for you, calling others out otherson no lives and girlfriends. really. best thing to do on the internet since 1997. you know, that year you were born ( OMG, I just called you a young teen! Holy crap!!!...thats the kind of argument insult you have been using here) Kudos. We do no care about you, and the hundred (maybe even two hundred, golly!) or so other players in the world spend your time looking for Everquest EMUs. Honestly, we do not.

Enjoy yourself.[/QUOTE]

You're looking for peqonly, I think, this dude played the same server thing as bigcountry.

 

[Cuyval Dar]

Yeah, Torrin doesn't have even remotely the same posting style as peqonly.

 

[bigcountry23]

Yeah, Torrin doesn't have even remotely the same posting style as peqonly.

Meaning he has strung together more than 3 words without a dozen misc. links.

 

[Cuyval Dar]

Precisely.

On another note, as an active SWGEmu player, I extend my sympathies. I'm only glad that the SWG emulator community doesn't have this kind of insanity (anymore, although I don't think that it ever reached this level.)

Perhaps this will persuade the various emulator groups to get over their differences, and pool their resources.

 

[peqonly]

I went back to the other thread to see if you guys had heard, and then i read it all up to here... lol and that person was super rude to the guy who made a sarcastic remark, although he was clearly putting time into the EQ project... and wasnt even the original poster or anything... that was strange.


also hi. they fucking killed EQEMU???? That is so bogus. Thanks p1999 for attracting a retard's wrath. for a while, all you had was potential. now you've wasted everyones time with your shitty unbeta'tested server, and destroyed the ENTIRE EQEMU COMMUNITY'S ABILITY TO PLAY, YOU (* (#)^&)#(&^)&#^$

Congrats. Unfuckingbelievable.

"Seriously, kid...most of us here do not give a fuck about your little drama in a dead game. You specifically joined a forum where one, maybe two people posting here played on the server, and ranted on it on not one, but two(Jesus, really!?) alts.

Good for you, calling others out otherson no lives and girlfriends. really. best thing to do on the internet since 1997. you know, that year you were born ( OMG, I just called you a young teen! Holy crap!!!...thats the kind of argument insult you have been using here) Kudos. We do no care about you, and the hundred (maybe even two hundred, golly!) or so other players in the world spend your time looking for Everquest EMUs. Honestly, we do not.

Enjoy yourself. "

I have created ONE account here, when i was stoned ... just to be random. I actually forgot to login the past couple days. Imagine my surprise.

I will turn 27 this month. RELAX. Life is a bigger sillier game then the fucking EMU's. Grow up if you don't get that. EQEMU shit is serious business k (to one particular person especially, at least! fucking spammer assholes!!) GOOD DAY.

 

[peqonly]

You're looking for peqonly, I think, this dude played the same server thing as bigcountry.

^ this

^ my new favorite trendy reply (im seeing it more and more these trendy days)

My thanks to you for paying attention CynicismKills. I, at least, appreciate your thoroughness in the matter. Gratzi. Kudos.

Goodbye for now strange-forum-who's-purpose-ive-yet-to-care-to-remember-but-yet-i-bookmarked-for-some-reason. Until next time.

 

[Shannow]

My faullt. For some reason I took it as an alt of the same person coming back in here based on the joined dates and sticking to the one and only topic. Again, completely my fault, and I wish to apologize. Welcome.

 

[Torrinn]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers including).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a \"hardened\" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

At any rate, I'll keep looking for more old spell data and fixing the errors that I can find in the spell file for when the server is back up. Hopefully it will be of use to someone.

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

What's really funny is that he is supposed to be a GM or dev on another EQEmu server. (It is suspected by many that it's someone from the Tallon/Vallon Zek rules PvP server who's been known to do this kind of thing before.) So by attacking the login server he screwed himself over because now his server is down along with the rest of them.[/quote]

There he is.

Seriously, kid...most of us here do not give a fuck about your little drama in a dead game. You specifically joined a forum where one, maybe two people posting here played on the server, and ranted on it on not one, but two(Jesus, really!?) alts.

Good for you, calling others out otherson no lives and girlfriends. really. best thing to do on the internet since 1997. you know, that year you were born ( OMG, I just called you a young teen! Holy crap!!!...thats the kind of argument insult you have been using here) Kudos. We do no care about you, and the hundred (maybe even two hundred, golly!) or so other players in the world spend your time looking for Everquest EMUs. Honestly, we do not.

Enjoy yourself.[/QUOTE]

FYI, this is my only account.

 

[Dave]

We know. He was thinking of PEQOnly. No worries, man.

 

[SpecialKO]

Thanks p1999 for attracting a retard's wrath. for a while, all you had was potential. now you've wasted everyones time with your shitty unbeta'tested server, and destroyed the ENTIRE EQEMU COMMUNITY'S ABILITY TO PLAY, YOU (* (#)^&)#(&^)&#^$

Congrats. Unfuckingbelievable.

Your writing style may have confused me a bit, but it sounds like you're blaming p1999 for the DDoSer, and your reasoning escapes me.

 

[Dave]

Thanks p1999 for attracting a retard's wrath. for a while, all you had was potential. now you've wasted everyones time with your shitty unbeta'tested server, and destroyed the ENTIRE EQEMU COMMUNITY'S ABILITY TO PLAY, YOU (* (#)^&)#(&^)&#^$

Congrats. Unfuckingbelievable.

Your writing style may have confused me a bit, but it sounds like you're blaming p1999 for the DDoSer, and your reasoning escapes me. [/QUOTE]

Blame the victim.

 

[SpecialKO]

Thanks p1999 for attracting a retard's wrath. for a while, all you had was potential. now you've wasted everyones time with your shitty unbeta'tested server, and destroyed the ENTIRE EQEMU COMMUNITY'S ABILITY TO PLAY, YOU (* (#)^&)#(&^)&#^$

Congrats. Unfuckingbelievable.

Your writing style may have confused me a bit, but it sounds like you're blaming p1999 for the DDoSer, and your reasoning escapes me. [/QUOTE]

Blame the victim.[/QUOTE]

So it seems, but my brain has difficulty parsing his syntax sometimes, so maybe if he could re-iterate?

 

[Shannow]

So the DDoSer that had been attacking P99 didn't feel he was getting the attention he deserved, so he started DDoSing the EQEMU login server (the gateway to the dozens of EQEMu servers including).

As a result, the data center has terminated the contract for the login server.

http://www.projecteq.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9229

As they don't have the costs to cover moving to a \"hardened\" data center, EQEMU is down indefinitely.

Oh well. Doesn't really bother me much as I have a life beyond video games. I guess I'll just have to have sex with my gf instead of playing EQ for a while. Oh, the horror. eace:

At any rate, I'll keep looking for more old spell data and fixing the errors that I can find in the spell file for when the server is back up. Hopefully it will be of use to someone.

---------- Post added at 06:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------

Geez... isn't there a single white or grey hat among the EQEMU community? Somebody needs to fuck this guy up.

What's really funny is that he is supposed to be a GM or dev on another EQEmu server. (It is suspected by many that it's someone from the Tallon/Vallon Zek rules PvP server who's been known to do this kind of thing before.) So by attacking the login server he screwed himself over because now his server is down along with the rest of them.[/quote]

There he is.

Seriously, kid...most of us here do not give a fuck about your little drama in a dead game. You specifically joined a forum where one, maybe two people posting here played on the server, and ranted on it on not one, but two(Jesus, really!?) alts.

Good for you, calling others out otherson no lives and girlfriends. really. best thing to do on the internet since 1997. you know, that year you were born ( OMG, I just called you a young teen! Holy crap!!!...thats the kind of argument insult you have been using here) Kudos. We do no care about you, and the hundred (maybe even two hundred, golly!) or so other players in the world spend your time looking for Everquest EMUs. Honestly, we do not.

Enjoy yourself.[/quote]

FYI, this is my only account.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, sorry about that. It was all my bad in a drunken stupor. I am sorry.

 

[bigcountry23]

Don't mind Shannow, he's mostly harmless (unless you attack his monistary and force him to wander the earth again).

 

[peqonly]

The only victims are the ones who donated money to p1999

For re-iteration, and proof of GM incompetence and corruption, view this thread:

http://classicbetatest.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3948070

In the words of one player:

"... Its nothing short of a greek tragedy that we've f*cked it all up the second time around Norrath just like we did back in the day."



I'd wait to roll when this is finished (which it almost is):

http://www.eqclassic.org/roadmap.html

"EQClassic.org is the official online portal between the community and the
developers whom are dedicated to creating unique, original server-side code for the best MMORPG ever created."

Now that's a project... and they've already fixed things these p1999 clowns will never understand, like Z-axis.

Or in the meantime you can always roll PEQ.

You're welcome.

 

[Shegokigo]

But PEQ is just as bad if not worse.

 

[Twitch]

 

[SpecialKO]

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure, but DDoSing EQEMU in response seems like if I robbed every bank in New York because Citibank had a crappy online banking interface and refused to fix it. It makes much more sense just to take my business to another bank.

 

[AshburnerX]

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure, but DDoSing EQEMU in response seems like if I robbed every bank in New York because Citibank had a crappy online banking interface and refused to fix it. It makes much more sense just to take my business to another bank.

Actually, it's more like robbing every bank in New York because Citibank was giving free money to some people and closing the accounts/taking the money of others. Your point still stands however.

 

[SpecialKO]

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure, but DDoSing EQEMU in response seems like if I robbed every bank in New York because Citibank had a crappy online banking interface and refused to fix it. It makes much more sense just to take my business to another bank.

Actually, it's more like robbing every bank in New York because Citibank was giving free money to some people and closing the accounts/taking the money of others. Your point still stands however.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

I don't have a clue what's going on in this thread.

I'm gonna go play Splinter Cell.

 

[Cuyval Dar]

Your sig list needs updating.

 

[bigcountry23]

To pull a quote out of that same mess you linked.

"you seriously missed out on the real classic EQ experience if your server board's Rants & Flames section didn't have daily drama."

http://classicbetatest.guildlaunch....0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45&gid=62867

In all honesty, what you are linking to is nothing more than a pissing match between the two highest guilds on the server. If somone manages to find a way to have a server without that, I would LOVE to see it.

In other news, a new data center has been secured, the servers have been moved, and everything is back to "normal" for the EQEMU community (albeit at a higher cost out of the pockets of those who support it).

I would also like to point out that one of the DEV's (Secrets) for Peqonly's much touted vaperware (AKA EQClassic) recently joined the P99 DEV/GM team.

---------- Post added at 04:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:09 PM ----------

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure...

The interesting thing is, all the "press" around the internet from the DDoS attack has atracted more attention (P99 recently passed the 300 online mark, which is an accomplishment as that means 300 invididual users (no boxing allowed)).

 

[SpecialKO]

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure...

The interesting thing is, all the "press" around the internet from the DDoS attack has atracted more attention (P99 recently passed the 300 online mark, which is an accomplishment as that means 300 invididual users (no boxing allowed)).[/QUOTE]

This is exactly what I mean. A DDoS "in protest" is completely pointless because all it does is (rightfully) cast the one being protested against as the victim.

And btw, big, I'm not debating his list of grievances just because I'm not involved in any of it and wouldn't know either way. Plus, regardless of whether they're true or not, I don't believe it in any way makes p1999 responsible for what happened.

Apologies, if that wasn't clear.

 

[bigcountry23]

How does p1999's (apparent) inability to moderate/update their server make them responsible for the DDoS?

Worthy of not being patronized, sure...

The interesting thing is, all the "press" around the internet from the DDoS attack has atracted more attention (P99 recently passed the 300 online mark, which is an accomplishment as that means 300 invididual users (no boxing allowed)).[/QUOTE]

This is exactly what I mean. A DDoS "in protest" is completely pointless because all it does is (rightfully) cast the one being protested against as the victim.

And btw, big, I'm not debating his list of grievances just because I'm not involved in any of it and wouldn't know either way. Plus, regardless of whether they're true or not, I don't believe it in any way makes p1999 responsible for what happened.

Apologies, if that wasn't clear.[/QUOTE]

No worries, plus it made a great way to segway into the fact that we have over 300 people playing now.