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Oh.........so RobT is SBMGendry..........cool

I don't think anything will be taken care before Monday........so let's wait till then

That's about right!

LOL I still earn.....be it by farming chickens or by dealing with servers and stuff across the globe unlike a 48 years old unemployed feeble dude suffering from identity crisis, surviving on prozac and leeching off his dad's and government's money..............but who cares........no one else does XD but that particular dude I am talking about..................

I know I am the one who is acting like a monk with unlimited patience in here........however I did send an email to them yesterday itself XD (see? you guys aren't the only one annoyed by such a behavior of gave devs.....) Update to that is.........I am still waiting for a reply from them...............LOL!

You're welcome!

Guys.......any MMORPG or if I may say......most of the MMOs in the world don't actually work the way you think they do. Let me explain you the basics here. On your systems, you have clients (for example: 3dxChat.exe), these clients are responsible to generate authentication tokens and are also responsible to save local level, game settings(there is more to it but lets not get into that detail at the moment). These clients generate authentication tokes and passed on using a suitable network connection, which are then received by an Authenticating server. This server is responsible for accepting the authentication token generated by your client. Consider this server as your gatekeeper. If you have the right credentials, it will let you in........if you don't, it will block you then and there. Once the authentication is complete and an acknowledgement token is sent back to the client.......the same token has the required URIs to reach out or to connect with your game servers. The game servers are the ones which host your game data depending on what or how the game has been designed. In some cases where the game is an open map MMORPG, the game servers facilitate the hosting of vital data like Game maps, and save as well as generate response based on the real time data that your actions generate ofc, being in the limits of the game programming. You can call them application servers in general. In some cases, these game servers can be your Matchmaking servers like in the case of Counter Strike series. Even Battlefield series follows the same concept. However, these game servers are only responsible to generate response as per the program they are running which in this case, is a game. All vital information however, is saved in a separate server which is known as Database server or simply the storage server. This sever is responsible for storing all sort of data which the programmer of the game, has decided to store on the servers. This can be your credentials against which, the Authentication server authenticates or cross checks your authentication token sent by the client. It can also store game maps for your if the game maps are too large and in case of 3dxchat, your PM system and gifting as well as your authentication and Room maps are saved in this so called Database server. Now the question comes, where is the problem? As we can see, unless we are not using the certificate based authentication system(which is beyond the capabilities of 3dxchat game developers), the game is actually allowing us to authenticate and see if our subscription has expired, which means.............the Authentication server are working fine. However, when our connection is diverted to the game servers, that is when the client is presented with a connection error problem. The client in turn starts attempting a loop of connection establishment before the time runs out thereby presenting us with the error message "Connection Lost, Reconnect" So there you go.........Now, the big question, is California wildfire has anything to do with it? Answer is HELL NO! You need to understand that when people or say the organizations invest on datacenters to be build at any place, The very first thing which is checked is, if that area comes under the zone of any Natural disasters like earthquakes, Flood, frequent storms etc............they also check if the area is prone to frequent wildfire and what is the possibility of such natural/man made disasters to impact the production or the datacenter facility. That happens to be their first and fore-most point in the agreement which they sign with their customer. Unlike the applications or the infra being hosted on those servers, Datacenters are always equipped with 'High-Availability' solutions. So your assumption that the game went down due to the California wildfire is wrong. I could write more and explain things in detail but that is out of the scope of this forum and I am sure I will be trolled in the following posts for what I have put in here........but still Knowledge is knowledge.........share if you have it (that is, if you feel like it lol)

3 days of server down and friends have become foes already............LOL Come on! we already have the trash in WC (ingame)........why you guys are keen to fight outside the game?.............If you guys don't agree on something to the point of fighting........why not politely press the ignore button? LOL......btw.........what is this Blog here for again?

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LOL!

Just when you want people to act mature.......joins a 48 years old baby ranting and making personal attacks ......lol KittyCat.........carry on!

Totally agree with you ........let's hope they do some overtime today and bring the server back online LOL

The situation is indeed being handled in a so called 'Unprofessional' way and I totally agree with you. However, damage is done, so either we all cry and keep asking the DEVs to show some professionalism at the moment and keep us updated, or let DEVs do their work and bring the servers up as soon as they can. Priority is to bring the servers up at the moment......their behavior towards us or the fellow players can be taken care later for now . Also, most of us are already aware and are now habitual about the unprofessional behavior of DEVs towards the 3DXCHAT community to the point that most of us gave up on the hope of DEVs showing any kind of professionalism at this point. That is a known issue for LOOOOOOONG and so most of us don't expect them to do anything different this time either.......As far as their infrastructural backup is concerned, they are game developers and not some big IT/software company......Not sure if they even have proper knowledge and/or investment to implement and maintain a decent 'high-availability' solution in their current Infra. I highly doubt that part LOL (Not sure if they are even using any standard Cloud hosting service at this point or if they are using just a cheap alternative for that....or may be they have their own server rooms with racks where Gizmo is holding the cables in his hands at the moment wondering which cable goes to which server and to which port LOL ) But.......I do agree with you, let's not forget that!

I am not saying that I am in the support of absolute silence that is being maintained by the Devs at the moment over the server down issue. I am however trying to address those who are showing concern over the server being down rather than DEVs being silent over the current issue/scenario/situation of server being down. There is a difference......

Is that the actual game link?

Relax guys...........it's not like they are going to shutdown the whole 3dxchat thing.........give devs some time......even a car breakdown causes a day or two's immobility and it happens without any prior information unless you check your car regularly..........same goes with servers..........so relax......

I have the latest update! ............Sever is still down! XD

/me Maskpalms.........

Ouch! Y U HURT MAH FEELINGS?

Well Kisha........It is time to let it go........

Meanwhile.........Gizmo is humming this song back in the server room holding cables in his hands:

Meanwhile...........Gizmo's playlist :

There are few things money can't buy, for everything else..........there's Mastercard

That's correct.........how about some ice-cream?

Is the server still down?.........