Login Server is being DDoS'd

[sarcon]

being a large DDOS attack or whatever i blame sony (but then there are alot of idiots on the internet that will do stuff just because they want to grief others and no other reason)

[Saltylopez]

btw this whole ddos attack story stinks to me. why and who would want to hurt eqemu or p1999.. seriously.

I came to THF from P1999, and the amount of drama on that server was insane. It was crazy to me how much of a shitstorm people would raise over content that was over 10 years old.

Long story short, a GM/developer of the server is in the "Uber" guild of P1999. Said guild gets numerous server firsts, others cry out against GM favoritism. It's a little more complicated than that, but that should give you the general idea.

I would suggest to check out their boards at http://www.project1999.org, but they're being affected by the DDoS, as well.

[Jeido]

As far as I know they share the same host, so if one is effected then they both are.

[Koeril]

Quite honestly, I could never see SoE messing with EQEmu ... I bet SoE gets a decent share of referrals from EQEmu when people only start playing to reminiscence and then remember what live was like and BAM they're hooked again.

[Aruun]

Now I have an addiction and nothing to feed it.

What to do with my spare time (besides studying for Jeido's finals)?

[Saltylopez]

There was some post on the P1999 forums this morning that had a few details of somebody claiming to be the person instituting the DDoS, as well. It was some sort of chat logs or something from P1999's IRC channel.

The hacker had some sort of demands for Nilbog (the guy who runs P1999) regarding the GMs. Nilbog's response was quoted in the thread as well, but I don't remember what it was, clearly it wasn't what the hacker wanted.

Aside from the P1999's Uber guild GM affiliation, other sources of drama have been:

-Plane of Hate/Sky being open when it wasn't supposed to be.
-Plane of Fear being open, but everybody thought it was closed til Inglorious Basterds (the uber guild) raided it.
-Mayong Mistmoore as a raidable boss, but only for one kill.
-Zone Experience Modifiers may have been wrong at server launch, allowing characters to go from 20-50 in SolA in a week or two.
-Melee damage done and damage taken was broken for a month and a half making even more useless solo than normal.
-Kiola Nuts stackable in 20's. People were doing the Tumpy Tonics quest all the way up to 50. (One person was a GM, who lost their GM privileges over this).
-Lady Vox was broken for a while.
-Same with Phinegel Atropos.
-Aside from Inglorious Basterds, there are at least 2 other guilds that intend to raid, barely any raid content to share.
-Rubicite is available, but Temple of Cazic Thule pathing is completely broken
-Manastones are available
-Nobody knows when Temple of Solusek Ro will be released, and Manastones/Rubicite/Guise of the Deceiver will be removed
-Classic Experience Penalties for Hybrids and Large races

It sucks that there was so much drama on the server. While I played on the server, it was obvious that the GMs/developers put a lot of work into trying to make a true classic experience, but I don't think they anticipated the amount of complaining and bitching that would arise.

[Milein]

Quite honestly, I could never see SoE messing with EQEmu ... I bet SoE gets a decent share of referrals from EQEmu when people only start playing to reminiscence and then remember what live was like and BAM they're hooked again.

Not only that but look at it this way: The EQEmu staff strictly forbids pirating. They force you to buy the legitimate discs of the game rather than Torrenting a client. The people that do pirate clients (whether Titanium or SoF) are doing so against the Emu staff's wishes, Sony can't really hold the Emu staff responsible for that.

Secondly, The Emulator was designed to allow people to use the Everquest engine and client to either A. create a Classic EQ experience or B. Create completely custom content based off EQ's legitimate Lore. It's not like we're collecting packets off EQ Live and running exact clones of the game for free, it's custom not to mention 1 (soon to be 2) expansions behind Live and we're still tinkering with Secrets of Faydwer. You can't really substitute one for the other because imo Live and the Emu are completely different.

In short: SoE is still getting money out of this deal, it's not like we intend to replace Live we're simply being creative or nostalgic which in essence makes this a completely different game, and to top it all off the Emu has been running for how many years now? If SoE hasn't done anything yet why would they suddenly chose to do something now? Plus i think, in all honesty, Sony is more concerned about Playstation and bringing down Xbox (which i support damn broken Microsoft crap lol) than the EQ Live servers or bringing down an Emulator.

Case in point, it's not Sony that DDoSed us and i doubt they ever will. All it was was a stupid little idiot on P1999 that got butthurt over something stupid and before a WAAAmbulance could be called he dropped the Denialbomb on the Login Server. =/

[Rerfu]

All this over the 1999 version of everquest.. sigh.

[Alexandra]

Happy Birthday to me.

[Milein]

Happy Birthday to me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!