Hello everyone,
I'd like to announce AlternateMasterSupport (please forgive the completely uncreative name), a third-party master server implementation I wrote. As most of you already know, Blizzard Activision has announced that the Tribes2 "game servers" (presumably the master and authentication servers) will be shut down on Saturday, November 1, 2008. After November 1, the T2 community is on its own.
While I'd like to believe that the servers will stick around, Tribes2 has been on its last legs several times already — I doubt we'll get lucky again. Since we've only got a week left, and since the game itself is the only communication medium all players have in common, it's important that everyone in the community (server admins and players alike) gets the word out to other players.
Some others on The Construct Forums (as pointed out by KryandArturo) are taking a slightly different approach, but with only a week left, I believe we need something we can start telling players to download right now. It may turn out that my project is simply a stepping stone to something better, and I'm okay with that (although I reserve the right to my own opinion about what's "better."
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AlternateMasterSupport is conceptually very similar to Morrow36/Worrum's old master server. On the client side, all that's required is a script. A little more work is required on the server side to properly support clients in LAN mode (which will be necessary once the authentication servers go down.)
If you discover and bugs or have any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you.
I'd like to announce AlternateMasterSupport (please forgive the completely uncreative name), a third-party master server implementation I wrote. As most of you already know, Blizzard Activision has announced that the Tribes2 "game servers" (presumably the master and authentication servers) will be shut down on Saturday, November 1, 2008. After November 1, the T2 community is on its own.
While I'd like to believe that the servers will stick around, Tribes2 has been on its last legs several times already — I doubt we'll get lucky again. Since we've only got a week left, and since the game itself is the only communication medium all players have in common, it's important that everyone in the community (server admins and players alike) gets the word out to other players.
Some others on The Construct Forums (as pointed out by KryandArturo) are taking a slightly different approach, but with only a week left, I believe we need something we can start telling players to download right now. It may turn out that my project is simply a stepping stone to something better, and I'm okay with that (although I reserve the right to my own opinion about what's "better."
)AlternateMasterSupport is conceptually very similar to Morrow36/Worrum's old master server. On the client side, all that's required is a script. A little more work is required on the server side to properly support clients in LAN mode (which will be necessary once the authentication servers go down.)
If you discover and bugs or have any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you.
