Official Server, anti-EU script?

PricePrice Join Date: 2003-09-27 Member: 21247Members
in NS2 General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">couldn't establish</div>Everytime i try to connect to the "official server" (which was written in twitter) i got the :
"Couldn't establish a connection with the server"
Every other server works, but only the "official server" not...why? is it using some kind of "usa only" script or what?
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  • endarendar Join Date: 2010-07-27 Member: 73256Members, Squad Five Blue
    I'd love for this script to be made available. Is it possible for it to be based on countries or even players race? I dont want to exclude an entire continent just because of a few bad seeds.

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=115997" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...howtopic=115997</a>
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  • lame-olame-o Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71517Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1896582:date=Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM:name=endar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (endar @ Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896582"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'd love for this script to be made available. Is it possible for it to be based on countries or even players race? I dont want to exclude an entire continent just because of a few bad seeds.

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=115997" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...howtopic=115997</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Hmm. I'm in Poland right now, which gets excluded from a lot of online communities because of bad reputation. It's pretty frustrating, especially since I'm actually Canadian. People who exclude others based on their geographical location are stupid, elitist thunder-######.

    Here's a nice idea: ban individuals not countries.

    Good day.
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  • NurEinMenschNurEinMensch Join Date: 2003-02-26 Member: 14056Members, Constellation
    This thread has potential. xD
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  • TwiggehTwiggeh Join Date: 2010-09-24 Member: 74165Members
    They seem to have a couple of reserved spots or something, but i was able to connect at one point from Sweden.

    Latency was actually decent tho, GJ on that UWE =)
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  • ArgathorArgathor Join Date: 2011-07-18 Member: 110942Members, Squad Five Blue
    There are no issues with connecting to it from anywhere in the world, from my experience.

    It is simply spending a lot of time crashed/not working properly (currently showing 15/20, but I dont think anyone is actually on it atm), but the performance is pretty fantastic when it does work.

    Although I still wish it was east coast so us Europeans got a better ping.
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  • Yes, this is DogYes, this is Dog Join Date: 2012-01-16 Member: 140781Members
    edited January 2012
    Well i could get on from the Baltics, so no problem. Probably just a reserved slot for the 1% :)

    correction: could not connect now, when 15/20. I guess no one likes pingers.
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  • devicenulldevicenull Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15967Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Is your first thought when failing to connect to a server 'Oh, they must be blocking my country'?
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  • playerplayer Join Date: 2010-09-12 Member: 73982Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1896582:date=Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM:name=endar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (endar @ Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896582"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'd love for this script to be made available. Is it possible for it to be based on countries or even players race? I dont want to exclude an entire continent just because of a few bad seeds.

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=115997" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...howtopic=115997</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    A client's country can be derived from their IP (proxys and alike notwithstanding), so yeah.

    But I'm not sure we're talking about the same server, it is 67.180.48.149:27016 right? That thing has been a broken ghost-server for the last 35+ hours now. Someone over at UWE should put the thing out of it's misery (eg. restart the damn server).
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  • KoruyoKoruyo AUT Join Date: 2009-06-06 Member: 67724Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited January 2012
    How about they give some ppl they trust(internal playtesters) remote access/admin rights - ns2 servers are not capable on running without supervision 24/7 <u><b>yet</b></u>... (you are lucky if you can play a few games without needing to restart it)
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  • MuYeahMuYeah Join Date: 2006-12-26 Member: 59261Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1896582:date=Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM:name=endar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (endar @ Jan 22 2012, 09:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896582"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'd love for this script to be made available. Is it possible for it to be based on countries or even players race? I dont want to exclude an entire continent just because of a few bad seeds.

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=115997" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...howtopic=115997</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    If only we had some sort of solution to finally deal with this issue once and for all...
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  • PricePrice Join Date: 2003-09-27 Member: 21247Members
    edited January 2012
    <!--quoteo(post=1896667:date=Jan 22 2012, 05:05 PM:name=devicenull)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (devicenull @ Jan 22 2012, 05:05 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896667"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is your first thought when failing to connect to a server 'Oh, they must be blocking my country'?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <img src="http://troll.me/images/futurama-fry/not-sure-if-trolling-or-just-stupid.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
    I don't need to justify myself...but
    1. Its not the first day i got this message with only that server, you genius.
    2. look at the image about your comment
    3. the game use the lua-scripting, it could be possible that UWE use some to only allow usa ips because of ping and stuff...maybe they want testing the servers...not just the same playtesters.
    Thats why i ASK, are you understand what a question mark means? (lol)
    4. If a server crash, its not in the list anymore on default...so its weird every server works but Official not...which could give the guess, thats maybe not allowed IPs from EU or Germany...
    Server is still in the list but could not connect...maybe its freezed who knows, but i know, if a server crash i played or want to play and its crashs (people tell me over steam), they disapear from the list...
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  • RanemanRaneman Join Date: 2010-01-07 Member: 69962Members
    American here, I can't connect for days either.

    It's obviously an anti-USA script too.

    Can someone in Antartica confirm if it's working there?
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  • IeptBarakatIeptBarakat The most difficult name to speak ingame. Join Date: 2009-07-10 Member: 68107Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited January 2012
    Yeah, I was trying to connect earlier but had the same problem. Northeastern usa.
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  • put3rg33kput3rg33k Join Date: 2012-01-02 Member: 139432Members
    QQ and quit making stupid accusations. If you'd have taken any effort in looking for the issue before you starting claiming discrimination you'd have noticed that the server has been down since at least yesterday morning. <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=115997" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...howtopic=115997</a>

    Why it's listed in the server list, I do not know but like the thread stated the players have to be phantom players. Once UWE figure it out I'm sure the server will be back up. For what its worth I have yet to be able to connect to the server as it's always FULL. Only recently did I get the current error message (which is the same you are getting I'm sure).
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  • peregrinusperegrinus Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72445Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1896688:date=Jan 22 2012, 08:23 PM:name=MuYeah)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MuYeah @ Jan 22 2012, 08:23 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896688"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If only we had some sort of solution to finally deal with this issue once and for all...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    you are badddd
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  • KrizzenKrizzen Join Date: 2011-12-16 Member: 138181Members
    I was showing 15/20 w/ the same error: "Couldn't establish a connection with the server" ... I'm in the USA, but the ping still isn't too great :/

    PS
    I also got this error on Inversion #2 showing 14/16 for hours and hours and ... never saw it clear up.
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  • endarendar Join Date: 2010-07-27 Member: 73256Members, Squad Five Blue
    I did answer this in my reply, by linking to a thread where people came to a consensus about it being crashed on 15/20, i guess I wasn't tongue in cheek. And sorry to lame-o, i was joking i'd never block an entire country or race, and neither would UWE.

    For a server to run un-attended, you need a few things, in no particular order:

    Restart when empty (to quickly fix the server in case it goes bad and people all dump out, or just for general housekeeping).
    Daily reboot (to prevent this issue in case the restart when empty doesnt catch it).
    Automatic updates. (linked below)
    Reboot when the server.exe reaches a memory limit (I use 1.3GB). This will catch physx crashing and a few other things leaking horribly.
    Registry entries to prevent windows informing you of a program crashing. (devnull has also linked this below)

    Devnull has a mod which achieves most of the above (http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=113414), the rest can be done by task scheduler or whatever you feel comfortable with.
    I'm sure there's more, but that's call I can think of currently.
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  • acid_rainacid_rain NS2 NAPT Mascot Austin, TX Join Date: 2010-02-16 Member: 70588Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester
    edited January 2012
    <!--quoteo(post=1896699:date=Jan 22 2012, 03:32 PM:name=Raneman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Raneman @ Jan 22 2012, 03:32 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1896699"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->American here, I can't connect for days either.

    It's obviously an anti-USA script too.

    Can someone in Antartica confirm if it's working there?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I Lol'd.

    I'll see if I can get Max to restart it.
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