Apr 9th 2015, 13:38:42
I have been gone for so long, I did not even remember the irc for the game. Did not set up my irc apps on mobile or pc yet. (I tried to remember, but I was trying to join #earthempires on gamesurge irc instead of the irc.earthempires.com server)
Anyway, I think Facebook is the solution, even though nobody posted there. There was a post on our Alliance site about it, but that doesn't help the non Alliance players much. :-p
In FB it says the FB Earth Empires is public, but when Googeled, I couldn't find it (Earth 2025 was found and a bunch of other things about the game, a band, a blog and that other Empire Earth game always comes up.) I even logged in, got the url for the FB Earth Empires page, logged out, entered the url and FB told me I needed to log in to proceed (unlike the Earth 2025 FB page where you can see everything regardless if you are logged in or not.) Earth 2025 being a Fan Page and you have the option to "Like" it and can view it regardless if you like it or not, vs Earth Empires where you join the group. (Since I am a member, I do not know if you have to be one to see it? I see it because I am a member?) Any player that had any information and is a member of the FB Earth Empires could have posted there, but no one did.
I guess like myself, most obviously knew there was an issue and it was being worked on as best as possible. It's not like Admins were like "F it, I'll get to it next week", but yes in the future, it would be nice for players to have some information outside these forums, irc etc, since everything goes down if the server goes down and all players do not use irc, its almost like your blind. :-/
When other sites go down I am involved with, I personally immediately go to their twitter page. There are always updates as to what is going on, with people asking stuff like "@netflix why can't I get on the site?" or "@SoundCloud I cannot log in wtf?". There is always a statement from the admins most giving a general statement ie "We are aware of the problem and are doing our best to alleviate the situation. We should be back up in about an hour" (or whenever they hope to be back up or fixed issue). Then the follow up tweet saying "We are back up and running, sorry for the inconvenience .... etc..." Twitter is FLY, but I think most peeps are just into FB here.
*BONUS*
Anyway, I think Facebook is the solution, even though nobody posted there. There was a post on our Alliance site about it, but that doesn't help the non Alliance players much. :-p
In FB it says the FB Earth Empires is public, but when Googeled, I couldn't find it (Earth 2025 was found and a bunch of other things about the game, a band, a blog and that other Empire Earth game always comes up.) I even logged in, got the url for the FB Earth Empires page, logged out, entered the url and FB told me I needed to log in to proceed (unlike the Earth 2025 FB page where you can see everything regardless if you are logged in or not.) Earth 2025 being a Fan Page and you have the option to "Like" it and can view it regardless if you like it or not, vs Earth Empires where you join the group. (Since I am a member, I do not know if you have to be one to see it? I see it because I am a member?) Any player that had any information and is a member of the FB Earth Empires could have posted there, but no one did.
I guess like myself, most obviously knew there was an issue and it was being worked on as best as possible. It's not like Admins were like "F it, I'll get to it next week", but yes in the future, it would be nice for players to have some information outside these forums, irc etc, since everything goes down if the server goes down and all players do not use irc, its almost like your blind. :-/
When other sites go down I am involved with, I personally immediately go to their twitter page. There are always updates as to what is going on, with people asking stuff like "@netflix why can't I get on the site?" or "@SoundCloud I cannot log in wtf?". There is always a statement from the admins most giving a general statement ie "We are aware of the problem and are doing our best to alleviate the situation. We should be back up in about an hour" (or whenever they hope to be back up or fixed issue). Then the follow up tweet saying "We are back up and running, sorry for the inconvenience .... etc..." Twitter is FLY, but I think most peeps are just into FB here.
*BONUS*
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a killrrun" - Xintros
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