Anybody know what happened to lancers

Well i hope they get it sorted soon, tbh its a real shame what’s been happening to it, and now it looks like its down again cos someone “forgot to put another fifty pence in the meter”

What TLR’s admin haven’t said is that the hack attack wasn’t your run of the mill attack, someone hijacked 3 servers, 1 in the UK, 1 in the US & the 3rd in russia, filled them with bots and flooded TLR on a massive scale, we’re talking terabits of bandwidth gone in seconds.

I’m not sure if their still being attacked as neither Turion nor Eraser have been on TS since the site went back down.

Can only hope not, I hate to see any website be attacked this way Especially one that is such a widely recognised resource.

its a shame attacking a site like that!

It is a shame, and I feel terribly sorry for BP and Eraser. They have gone through a lot recently, and things just are not working out for them.

Turion seems to be taking a lot of flack regarding the whole ordeal (a small portion of which I think is somewhat deserved, relating to things that happened a while back with the relaunching of the site’s relaunch), even though this latest spat of nonsense has been entirely outside of his control.

I’ve heard a few people scoff at the idea of “upstart” sites like this one trying to steal a bit of TLR’s pie in its moment of weakness, but personally I think these past few months have highlighted very clearly why having all of our eggs (or most of them, at any rate) in a single basket isn’t just a bad idea - it’s a terrible idea, and one that has at this point probably damaged the community as a whole more than the untimely death of the global server.

Is anyone able to get onto Lancers? Ive been going to www.lancersreactor.com…. I get nothing but a “downtime message”

They’re still working on it I believe.

ok thanks. I was worried the final nail was driven into the coffin.

Nope, we’re still here ;D, but this time the site will not be opened to the public until it’s finished, and we’re looking at the end of march for that depending on how quickly we get the old sites DB disks from Louva-Deus.

What’s going on over there now???
New fourm or, has the other one been hijacked?

HK

The old one is gone , the new one is under new managment cough .

@HunterKiller:

What’s going on over there now???
New fourm or, has the other one been hijacked?

HK

A Very Long Drama was played out over there in the last two weeks M8, Basically it’s never going to be what it was again.

@CatDog:

The old one is gone , the new one is under new managment cough .

Way to Go CatDog, I was going to be a lot less diplomatic about it and you saved me. Thanks…

Let me just say I am pointing anyone that will listen here instead of Lancers Reactor. For now I consider The Lancers Reactor a fond memory, and what is there doesn’t deserve the same name. That might change someday, but they will have to earn it back now.

The forum is rather… ‘striking’ isnt it… ::)

I wish MC luck, I really do.

@Roo:

The forum is rather… ‘striking’ isnt it… ::)

I wish MC luck, I really do.

Yes, another careful choice of words. See you guys are good for me, I am too blunt.

I hope the best for MC… Now there are others in the staff,…… (Ok, you can stop me now… ;D )

In my personal opinion I fink it’s best if people don’t talk about TLR to be honest.

This isn’t TLR, it’s not supposed to be TLR, and you don’t want to be overshadowed by TLR either!

Focusing, discussing, dissecting TLR runs the risk of associating Starport (with people visiting) as being a stop-gap TLR substitute. If TLR ever sorted itself out, they’d therefore go straight back to it.

It also won’t help fans of one site enjoy the other either in my lil opinion

@Chips:

In my personal opinion I fink it’s best if people don’t talk about TLR to be honest.

This isn’t TLR, it’s not supposed to be TLR, and you don’t want to be overshadowed by TLR either!

Focusing, discussing, dissecting TLR runs the risk of associating Starport (with people visiting) as being a stop-gap TLR substitute. If TLR ever sorted itself out, they’d therefore go straight back to it.

It also won’t help fans of one site enjoy the other either in my lil opinion

I like it, as I have no intention of returning there I will now disassociate the three letters with anything of importance and move on…
This is me forgetting all about it… Possessed: Definition, pos·sessed (p? zest?), adjective, 1. owned 2. controlled by an emotion or as if by an evil spirit; crazed; mad,… Ok, I feel better now… Muhahahahaha

the site is up and running but by the looks of it the news is saying that there having problems with the domain and the main admin(unable to commuicate with him/her).

also there are decussion of a new site aswell. so there looking for ideas.
MentalChaos is the one u need to send ideas to.
heres his or her email address: [email protected]

;D MC is definately having problems, the domain keeps changing, yesterday morning it pointed at Crazy’s site, last night some crappy board and this morning it’s back to Crazy’s site, this will probably be the last straw for most ppl.

I’ve already stated that MC should just shut TLR down and let the name fade into folklore, especially as the TLR that us old timers remember hasn’t been around for a couple of years, and will never come back. The FL community were quite happy to let the site de-evolve into nothing more than a modding resources site, if it hadn’t been for Taw & Esqy’s fun & games in OT the site would have been a ghost town, especially in it’s last 6 months, as the old site had very little forum activity outside of OT. If you remove all of the “flame” threads from the site that Crazy hosted, you’ll find that about 90% of the remaining posts were about modding, that’s all that the community needs from TLR & sites like the Starport, some place to get the modding resources/knowledge/help they need, they use their own clan/mod/server sites for general chit chat.

A glance at this link,

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lancersreactor.com

And looking at the page Counts Per Year tells the tale better that anything I can say.

I will remember that place and the many people that visited it, “Back Then.”

The Site, just like so many of the people, is truly gone forever. MC can put whatever he wants there now, I will not worry any further on it.

I want Freelancer to grow, having that as a open issue is not helping.

But I disagree on one point, we still need a “Contact Point” for Freelancer. Sure most established players have clan and server Forums to chat on. I am still hopeful someone that just decided to try Freelancer Multiplayer can find something to point them to the Server and Clan Forums. You have to KNOW how to make the in game server list to function now, so it is real important something is on the Web…

So what remains that will fill that task???