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The company that owns the building where our server is in went bust. Our hosting company has to move its clients to a new spot, which they will do sooner or later. That will obviously result in some down time, but we also get a new ip-address. Unfortunately I don't know anything more substantial atm.

So, if amiaworld.net is down, it may be the moving. If the forum runs, but you can't get into nwn, you may need to change the ip-address. I'll make a big post about that, of course.

Well, the website's back now!

Yep, website up, servers down. Just found Amia and now it has been denied me. So very unspiffy.

You missed the fun last year, otter, when the whole shebang went down for about 2 weeks. Pretty sure some of us were planning homicide by the time it came back up.

Sacrifice to The Great Chicken, don'tcha know?

mad_otter wrote:

Yep, website up, servers down. Just found Amia and now it has been denied me. So very unspiffy.

It's how we keep your addiction going. Small doses, then forced withdrawal for a short time to make you fiend for it. It's wondrously sinister, really.

Forums are horribly slow though, so will just have to wait until everything is settled

(edit) seems tracert to amiaworld.net is still going to the old IP, so looks like it may be awile

Just out of curiosity, and without any intention of being a nag, do we have any idea of the rough time frame we're looking at here? Hours? Days? (Hopefully not) weeks?

I have no idea if it's even been moved yet. I'm going to just boot the servers back up for now until I know what's going on.

Server has not been moved, it is still showing the old IP

I noticed that, yeah.

P Three wrote:

You missed the fun last year, otter, when the whole shebang went down for about 2 weeks. Pretty sure some of us were planning homicide by the time it came back up.

Sacrifice to The Great Chicken, don'tcha know?

Since I absolutely don't remember this, it must be one of those situations when the brain simply forgets a horrific situation in order to preserve its sanity.

Ah, repression. The glorious thing that brains do to save us.

Dead wrote:

P Three wrote:

You missed the fun last year, otter, when the whole shebang went down for about 2 weeks. Pretty sure some of us were planning homicide by the time it came back up.

Sacrifice to The Great Chicken, don'tcha know?

Since I absolutely don't remember this, it must be one of those situations when the brain simply forgets a horrific situation in order to preserve its sanity.

I think I still have screenies of a bunch of us sitting around the entry to B, which was used as a "placeholder" so we could at least meet up and talk, all in cloaks and helms, bowing and scraping to an effigy of Disco.

Found it!

http://imageshack.com/i/5zpraisefortheboardsp

Sorry for being unspecific, but my idea of 'sooner or later' was 'somewhere in August'. So, nothing has changed yet. I doubt it will be a matter of minutes anyway, as the server has to be moved about 20 km....

Knowing that Disco, once again, has the addictions and desires of many individuals around the world in his hands I don't know why but I couldn't help but get a flash of a Disco much smaller in stature riding aback a hulking dimwit.

"EMBARGO ON!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEg4F9csPzo

Alright, the server gets moved in about 2,5 hours from now. Mind that we will get a new IP address, which you'll probably need to change while trying to login to the game. I'll obviously post that when I know what it's going to be.

... and the new ip-address will be 185.29.203.11 Write it down now if you want to play as soon as possible after the move.

Is the IP in red indicative of anything or am I just crazy for not noticing that until now?

If you take the effort to read the two posts above yours, you may get a clue...

Sorry if I'm being a dimwit, but whats the address for B? Can only get to A and the portal wand says "no".

EDIT: 2 seconds later I notice the address in the top left corner Amia forum status box thingy: 185.29.203.11:5122

Ignore me.

Now to sit and attack refresh on this thread until Amia returns.

I love how it was down for like three seconds.

...Ninja'd. Amia's back, Broldi. >.> Although a few people have had problems, many have been able to log in with the new IP already.

In that case. TO AMIA!

The forums haven't been loading so well since for me :s

There's a little tail to my tale: the server hasn't moved yet. I was a bit puzzled how they managed to move the machine over 25 km within 3 seconds (and without stopping the game), so I asked about it. They're probably moving it this weekend. Hopefully that also deals with the connection issues.

All this is great and all but disco... we need to see your chicken boobies or all of this is for naught.

Whats the IP address for server B?

It's on the upper left corner of the page. Or did you mean that one isn't working for you?

Wasn't earlier but I'll try again later

I've got a few people who can't access the forums, what do? For me I just had to delete cookies and then I could googlesearch amia and got in from there (or just had to wait a little bit). Is that all it takes, a periodic cache update? I can't seem to figure out how to initiate the fix though.

Go through the usual stuff: clear cache and cookies try a different browser, etc. If it still doesn't work, reset your router. If it still doesn't work... well.

I switched my DNS server to the Google one. Then changed it back to my normal one. And Amia's forums were accessible.

Deleting cookies, clearing cache, none of that stuff I normally do for this issue did absolutely nothing for me.

It's some session issue, I couldn't login as well. A little trick: try "amiawowlrd.net" instead of "www.amiaworld.net".

GreatPigeon wrote:

All this is great and all but disco... we need to see your chicken boobies or all of this is for naught.

I'm so sorry, but this chicken doesn't mingle with mere squab.

Chickenburn!

Mind that they may move the server today... not that I heard anything about it, but still.

I'm not sure if it's on a to-do list somewhere or not, but I've noticed that since the IP address change Amia has been missing from the NWNCX server listings. I think it would behoove the administration to list the server again (as if I recall correctly, when I initially started using the NWNCX client Amia did appear in the roleplay servers section) for the sake of facilitating both new arrivals and for the convenience of anyone who happens to use NWNCX.

Dunno who added them in the first place, but I doubt it was me. So... that probably means everybody can do it! Show your patriotism, and gets us added!

From what I understand (and from what is detailed in the link) it is a change/override to a reference in the nwserver file that will redirect it to another listing's server hosted by a party other than gamespy. I'm guessing I probably noticed Amia in my history tab rather than the actual listings now, but I think it still is worthwhile to make sure Amia is available there, as Arelith and the other big boys seem to have made sure to keep up with the evolution of good old NWN.

The submission based methods like NWN Scry and what not have nothing to do with the client extension, as far as I know.

Ahhh, didn't read. Edited the host file. Now we just have to wait till the nwn servers restart.

I passed Scry stuff to Terra, perhaps he can add it.

Duzzit wurk now?

Yup, good stuff.

Sooo have we heard anything in regards to when they are going to move the server, Disco? The lag is killer, especially on B, heh.

*cough* Have we heard anything, or has it already happened? Server seems to be having a lot of issues :<

Well, it seems to be in the same spot as it was. I actually thought it was working a bit better until the last few days. No clue what's going on, all the web stuff works fine.

Shall we sacrifice a goat? A virgin one?

I sacrificed a chicken last night. Or... actually, I bought it pre-sacrificed. But it was tasty.

Alas, my homage to the mighty server gods has failed to impress, apparently.

It's because you sacrificed a chicken. You fiend!

The answer on sacrifices is a simple one, especially for you americans. Get a machine gun, walk into a The Great Chicken Will Destroy You! and appease the great Chicken God.

Bini wrote:

Yup, good stuff.

Wait, wait, wait... How do you get a server list on the internet tab?

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