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« on: Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 17:33:04 PM »
ELiZ is the only one that can fix the issue (sometimes it's not even up to him but the hoster). Complaining about it won't do anything, nor does asking for a backup system that would be complex and a royal pain to setup, if even possible. It's a free game being kept alive on life support by a couple of people, it's not life & death, just be patient and wait.
I don't know if anyone else remembers but when Jonny took the game down, we were scrambling to get it set back up with backups of the auth server. It wasn't until Jonny came back a few days later to help ELiZ get it setup on a new host and then even a few days after that that everything was working ok. There's custom commandline Linux stuff and things cobbled together to make it work. While ELiZ has worked to make it more reliable, I'd bet that it's still not as near good as it could be, especially if written in a modern and lean language. The problem is, we simply don't have the knowledge and people to undertake a rewrite. It's hard to find reliable, knowledgeable and trustworthy people that will work for free.