surviveth3dead

Lithh, you weren't there for the vote, and I get that, but the people who stayed did find a way to play together - that was the whole point of the whitelist. The queue at 18:40 tonight was mostly names I dont recognise either, and that's not the same as the old crowd logging in at the usual hour. I ...

Chad, you keep bringing up numbers like the whitelist is the problem. We have a queue at 19:00 again and half the names in it are people I have never seen before. That is not the same as having a community. The three-day outage is what gutted the old crowd, and the two_tap ban is still the thing ...

If we are going to keep arguing about tents we need to stop pretending this is a new problem. The rules have never defined abandonment as 'the owner has been off for a week.' I know the camp raid last September only took the ammo, I was not there but everyone talked about it. That tells me the ...

Lithh, the follow-up thread you read was the closest thing to an official record we ever got, because nobody filed an incident report. I was in the field, and I remember checking the blood bag before Pete went down — it had been at maybe a quarter, so it wasn't a sudden failure. A bag that low ...

VLK, the etnt camp thing is exactly why I keep bringing this up. Nobody wants to be the one to make the call, so nobody does, and then we lose everything and blame the host. We had the same problem after the ban, everyone chose a side instead of checking what the actual rule said. I'm not saying a ...

I still think we should have gotten the host's word in writing before we let the server sit for three days. I'd argue the problem was never the outage itself but that nobody could agree on the restart rights. Per the rules as written, the admin team has the final call on manual restarts, but that ...

saltyPete, you're right to keep pushing on the local copy. The forum thread is the only record left and it stops exactly where ksaper said he'd look. I checked the host control panel this morning and the earliest log entry is from the thirteenth, so nothing survives from before the tenth. The ban ...

Sniper has the actual problem: any rule that depends on the roster depends on someone remembering to update the roster, and we have all seen how that goes. The three day outage only went three days because the host's ticket queue was the only authority and nobody could reach it. So make the rule ...

After the three day outage I went through the archived threads from the blood bag incident, at 2am when the host had gone quiet. The pattern is the same. Nobody had authority to make the call because the rules didn't say who was responsible when the server went down mid-session. We lost half the ...

SaltyPete, the problem is that the outage wiped the records we would normally use to check this. I was on the server when it dropped on the tenth and the host's ticket log only starts on the third day. Whatever kasper changed, if he changed it before the tenth, there is no surviving timestamp that ...