Itms Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 Dear players, The multiplayer lobby server will be stopped tomorrow in order to perform a major update. The database migration is supposed to take several hours, during which all lobby rooms for all versions of the game will be unreachable. Maintenance will start at 8 AM UTC (see your local time) and will last at least until 12 AM. We hope no issues delaying the service restart will occur. I will keep you updated here. Please excuse us for the inconvenience! And happy playing. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunChleoc Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 Good luck with the update - may it go smoothly! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzernub Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 When you meant major update, did you guys mean Alpha 23? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feneur Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 4 hours ago, Fuzzernub said: When you meant major update, did you guys mean Alpha 23? No, this is just the lobby server that needs some maintenance to work better in the future 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMS-Surprise Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 my hands are shaking. need to play some. when can we play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Usually players meet on #0ad on irc / quakenet and share an IP address of someone who forwarded the UDP port of their choice (20595 by default). https://webchat.quakenet.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itms Posted April 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Unfortunately the upgrade was unsuccessful (I got that by trying this on Friday 13th!) so we are back to the old server without any change. Sorry for the disruption... The new server will work with A23 and later only, so we will roll it out in several months after everybody is up to date. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzernub Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 @Itms Im new to the game and my friends and I have been playing for the past couple of days nonstop. When do you expect the release of A23? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itms Posted April 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 14 hours ago, Fuzzernub said: @Itms Im new to the game and my friends and I have been playing for the past couple of days nonstop. When do you expect the release of A23? Unfortunately, even for us, the answer to that is "when it is ready". We're really excited about revealing it, but excitement does not give extra time to work on it, alas... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted April 14, 2018 Report Share Posted April 14, 2018 However you can download the preview of the release already https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions. On Windows it's just installing tortoise svn to download the code (make sure that all players fetch updates before starting a multiplayer game) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itms Posted August 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 We are ready to perform the upgrade of the lobby - may it be successful this time! A few things you should know: We are going to stop the lobbies for all versions of 0 A.D. prior to A23. This is the thing that failed last time: A22 was no longer compatible with the upgraded version of the lobby server. People connecting with older versions of 0 A.D. will see the room message telling them that they should upgrade, but there will be no bots allowing them to host and rate games. This time there will be minimal downtime. Instead of shutting everything down during the user database migration, which takes a huge lot of time, we will keep the old lobby running. When we fire the new one up, all user accounts from after the start of the migration will have disappeared - so in order to minimize the inconvenience, registration of new user accounts is going to be disabled this evening (UTC / Europe times). I will post here when the registration is enabled again. There will be a short downtime at the beginning (a few minutes) while we deactivate the registration; and a slightly longer one when we are ready to launch the new server. TL;DR The lobby will keep working as usual except for registrations, and versions of 0 A.D. older than A23 will be unsupported after the upgrade. We will also have a surprise announcement when the upgrade is complete Happy playing. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itms Posted August 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 The lobby is now up and running on a brand new server. Registrations are open. It is now more robust against security issues, and it will be a good basis to improve it further. Those improvements will be carried out by our new Lobby Administrator, @user1! He assisted me in the upgrade today, and it worked way better, so this is a very good news Happy playing, and don't hesitate to report issues here! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 Not all user accounts made it to the other side yet The STUN port(s?) need forwarding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted August 12, 2018 Report Share Posted August 12, 2018 STUN working now after Jan reloaded the firewall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elexis Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 At least all user accounts that logged in within the last 8 months should be restored. IPv6 gamelist issue was solved (hosting without STUN). Ratings were fixed (Dunedans gamereport patch was applied) So it seems all jumpscares of the server upgrade passed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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