When i set up the connector the first time the way it is now, the little fancy menu and all, I set it up so that I could change the IP in one location and it would fetch the IP from "friskycow.com".  This would have made for a super fast transition after IP changed....but.. I forgot I had it set up that way.

And yes, you can use the connector yourself and plug in the IP and such, but its all in some Asian language and it's really annoying.  I would have had it working way sooner but I forgot that I set it up that way.  Also, it took quite a long time for my DNS host to update to the new IP, that's why the site was down way longer than it should have been.  I almost changed DNS hosts but...whatever.

We closed on our first house earlier this month..which was also like the first week of school.  There's not much time in between work and sleep.  I hope you are all doing well.  It should be working now.

Server will be physically changing addresses and also IP will change.  This will cause downtime for 1-4 days depending on how that goes.  I should have put this up sooner but there's not alot of people this will affect anyway.

Here's to hoping all goes well

I know you guys are probably thinking same ole crap, but I have alot going on right now...trying to finish up some last-minute school registration ...I just procrastinate everything so badly...and depending on what classes are available...and im working full time ...

I promised you guys the damn candles like a million times ...i'll give some soon ...but as far as any major overhauls to anything, its probably not gonna happen anytime soon.  I'm sure you guys are probably used to the never-around admin kinda thing ..but hell ...

I mean it's either be absentee or just take the server down ... and I wanna leave it up... I wanna keep it up  ...and hopefully I can toy with it ...  Some things just come first ... And to be honest, my knowledge of java sucks anyway.

So, you guys are welcome to play here ..i just wouldn't expect a whole lot as far as changes.. and if y'all prefer to play somewhere else that's cool, just please don't advertise here, and be respectful to each other.

http://code.google.com/p/l1j-en/
"Several servers are using this project as their active codebase. The longest running server currently known (without a wipe) can be found at http://www.westknights.com".

Yeah right.

In case anyone is "new" to this whole "friskycow" nonsense, I totally have the longest non-wipe lineage one private server.

And a forum is way easier to throw up and edit than trying to tweak game code...the answer to why the forum gets attention when the game server does not. 

So the subject here is slightly light-hearted...and accurate.  I upgraded the forum to the latest version in the war against the bots.  I have several new anti-computer measures for registration now. (since doing that, at least one guy made an account...so humans are getting through .. let me know if you have any problems)

I spent quite a while working on the shoutbox issue.  I try to keep things simple where possible and by doing so sometimes I create weird problems in the process.  The shoutbox script I was using is for the older version of this particular forum.. I tried unsuccessfully to get it to work again.  As it turns out it was the best for what I wanted it to do...the ones i find that "work" don't fit my needs.

The short version is I ran out of time.  Right now, the forum/website is still semi-broken.  If you have any problems registering a new forum account e-mail me at cowsarecool5 (at) gmail (dot) com .  There's still a few administrative things I really want to do - such as having better controls over account creation for the game server.