Server down?

[MvGulik]

Wondering about something.

If Plymouth game server(process) is down. But Roanoke and/or Jamestown game server are still up. Can you still enter the game on the active servers?

I did gave it a fast try (when Plymouth was down, and one of the other servers was up), but that did not result in a positive result so far. (failed at character log-in process. "Could not connect: connect" of something to that effect.)
- If I'm correct, Plymouth is the only one that has the game files. Which is/was not a/the issue.

[loftar]

If Plymouth game server(process) is down. But Roanoke and/or Jamestown game server are still up. Can you still enter the game on the active servers?

You could, but only manually. Plymouth is the server that the clients connect to by default, which makes it the login server, but the other servers are equally capable of the same. It's just that you have to launch the client manually in order to tell it to connect to one of them instead.

[L33LEE]

If Plymouth game server(process) is down. But Roanoke and/or Jamestown game server are still up. Can you still enter the game on the active servers?

You could, but only manually. Plymouth is the server that the clients connect to by default, which makes it the login server, but the other servers are equally capable of the same. It's just that you have to launch the client manually in order to tell it to connect to one of them instead.

How does one do this, it should be told to the public so us roan / jamestown users can login if boston is down

[Chiprel]

Edit your salem.jnlp with texteditor:
line:
<property name="haven.defserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />
to:
<property name="haven.defserv" value="XXXXXXXXX.seatribe.se" />

where xxxxx is serv name.

Didn't try it myself but I think it will work

[L33LEE]

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18779594/salem/" href="salem2.jnlp">
<information>
<title>Custom Salem</title>
<vendor>Ender</vendor>
<description>The Salem game</description>
<icon href="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/java/icon.gif" />
<shortcut online="false">
<desktop />
<menu submenu="Custom Salem" />
</shortcut>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions />
</security>
<resources>
<java version="1.6+" max-heap-size="512M" />
<j2se version="1.6+" max-heap-size="512M" />
<jar href="salem.jar" />
<jar href="client-res.jar" />
<property name="haven.defserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />
<property name="haven.resurl" value="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/res/" />
<extension name="res" href="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/java/salem-res.jnlp" />
<extension name="jogl" href="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/java/jogl/jogl.jnlp" />
</resources>
<application-desc />
</jnlp>



So change the
<property name="haven.defserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />
to
<property name="haven.defserv" value="Roanoke.seatribe.se" />

?????????????

[Chiprel]

yes

PS. As a side note: you might need to edit few more lines to make it work when plymouth is down.
<property name="haven.defserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />
<property name="haven.resurl" value="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/res/" />
<extension name="res" href="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/java/salem-res.jnlp" />
<extension name="jogl" href="http://plymouth.seatribe.se/java/jogl/jogl.jnlp" />
all 4 of those. just edit plymouth to other serv name.

[loftar]

Ah, no, you can't change the resource or extension URLs, because only Plymouth is running a HTTP server. The HTTP server is obviously unaffected by the game server going down on Plymouth anyway, and if the entire Plymouth server is physically down, then the other servers won't work anyway, since Plymouth is running the account server.

You'll also have to add a line to make the client still use Plymouth for the authentication service even though it's connecting to another game server:

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<property name="haven.authserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />

[MvGulik]

You'll also have to add a line to make the client still use Plymouth for the authentication service even though it's connecting to another game server:

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<property name="haven.authserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />

Aha ... *facepalm*
Thanks

[Chiprel]

So to sum it up:
Change haven.defserv to:

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<property name="haven.defserv" value="XXXXXXXXX.seatribe.se" />


where xxxxx is serv name.

and add

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<property name="haven.authserv" value="plymouth.seatribe.se" />

[Trenial]

AH, is that what that was. It was so beautifully executed, at the precise second I clicked to open my gate, poof, no error, nadda. Just firefox, Salem gone.