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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168483 is a reply to message #168450] |
Mon, 29 August 2005 21:41   |
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If Westwood goes away, Blackhand Studios is ready to take over the server listing within a week or two of that event.
I'm the bawss.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168584 is a reply to message #168483] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 14:02 |
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| Crimson wrote on Tue, 30 August 2005 00:41 |
If Westwood goes away, Blackhand Studios is ready to take over the server listing within a week or two of that event.
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what do you mean by that?
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168634 is a reply to message #168450] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 16:53 |
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I mean that between our members we have no less than 3 WOL replacement applications that are more secure than the existing service. However, given how many server owners in this community have their heads up their asses, the only way we can forsee this replacement being a success is if WOL itself ceased to exist.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168687 is a reply to message #168450] |
Tue, 30 August 2005 23:39 |
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Excellent. For the most part, the nine-character limitation isn't that much of a burden considering I grew up in the days of BBSes and AOL v2.0.(Five bucks says you don't know what a "SmallTime BBS" is, Crimmy.) But in the long run, something to the extent of 32 character and special characters allowed(space, underscore, shift-numeric keys. . .) would be nice. Being able to remove nicknames from the database would be nice, too.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168691 is a reply to message #168450] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 01:25 |
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I meant the number of nicknames allowed in your buddy list.
I started BBSing in 1993 on local dial-up BBSes (CHHS, TUBBS, Flatlands to name a few local ones) at 2400 baud. I do know what they are, so send me $5 care of Blackhand Studios.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168694 is a reply to message #168450] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 01:55 |
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I said "SmallTime BBS". You made no mention of the specific Bulletin Board Service. I know I wasn't very clear on the name, as I could have simply been referring to a type of BBS instead of a name, but. . . Eh.
Anyway, I honestly would if I still had my PayPal account. And. . .wasn't broke.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168699 is a reply to message #168450] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 02:47 |
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You said "a SmallTime BBS" in a general way. Either way, I hadn't heard of that particular one, but I did connect to several local BBSes back in the day so that should satisfy your presumption that I was some sort of online newbie. There are plenty who are more old-school than me, but I am more old school than you thought I was. I still say you owe me.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168702 is a reply to message #168699] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 03:31 |
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Dr. Lithius
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| Crimson wrote on Wed, 31 August 2005 02:47 |
You said "a SmallTime BBS" in a general way. Either way, I hadn't heard of that particular one, but I did connect to several local BBSes back in the day so that should satisfy your presumption that I was some sort of online newbie. There are plenty who are more old-school than me, but I am more old school than you thought I was. I still say you owe me.
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Alright, alright. . . I gotta admit, it's not often enough that I find people that are actually aware of Bulletin Board Services. So I'll fork over the fiver. But only 'cause I love yas. =P
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168707 is a reply to message #168450] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 05:45 |
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It probably would be. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure if some of us. . .shall we say. . ."engineered" the downfall of Westwood Online, EA Games would somehow manage to track our butts down and have us all sued. Or something. I dunno. I'm pretty sure if it went down all by itself(so to speak), though, that EA wouldn't btoher trying to bring it back up.
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| Re: a masterserver otherthen wol! [message #168733 is a reply to message #168450] |
Wed, 31 August 2005 10:26 |
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I have a question Crim.
Say you fired up the BHS host right now while WOL still functions. Would it be possible to host n00bsrv1 on it and use a WOLspy type of deal to make the server still show up on WOL? Also (ok so I have 2 questions) if I'm not mistaken a BHS host would not be bound by a valid serial correct? Which would mean that the game could be more easily distributed. There by greatly increasing the life span and player counts of the game.
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the wol servers will goo poof in like a secound and you be like wow im so f*cking retarded i should have switched...o wait i still can 
Plus we wouldn't have it bound by the limitation of nicknames.
