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Title: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 08:51:35 AM
What about the part that ELiZ did with the honors. He did its own thing, right?
And to register a new server, is there a way to go for that?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Scorpy on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 09:18:44 AM
we need a solution for name change and passwords and making clans or this will be like the wild west.  :style:



Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: timater on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 09:32:11 AM
Even the forum is a shame to lose...

all in all... not a bright day
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 10:00:45 AM
Guess no more Nooblet frag rate players will not be
Be playing Any longer !!!! Good riddens

Tracker not needed for a 13 year old game
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: QuicK^ on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 10:02:46 AM
As i know, assist use BT login to work ...

Putting assist again in dead situation.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Blur on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 10:34:50 AM
Pretty sad to see it go though there may be some plus sides to it.

- Single source for account registration meaning users now sign up on aao25. (easier process = more new players)
- We'll have controll over more account related things i.e clan tags, names, characters, map tracking (some maps weren't recognised) ect.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 11:16:20 AM
Wtf is going on !!
Playing all these years and now that - One desaster after the other - Grrrr
that really pisses me off
couldn't the guy at bt give us a warning before - forgot his name - now we can't even
carry over the data from the players and trying to build our own - this is gonna piss a lot of people off - if they have to start from scratch again - what a bullshit
and Wicked spare me with your sarcasm - go an play PG

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ICON-BoMBer on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 11:27:00 AM
Sad, :down:
No tracking , no competition,no reason to play AA at all.
but maybe time to start a new tracking system?

I wouldn't mind as my fragrate is not very accurate for how I play nowadays  :D :style:

Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 11:32:11 AM
Messaging on BT also doesn't work anymore - otherwise I could have tried
and mail the owner cause I got him in my private messages
Maybe he became greedy and wants money
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: QuicK^ on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:07:21 PM
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Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:11:52 PM
This is the address and phone number of Homey, the last administrator of Battletracker.

Name and address
Marco Kawon
Zum Hoechsten 4
51766 Engelskirchen
Germany

E-mail address
[email protected]

Phone
+49 180-3663388-01283 (No Support!)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: QuicK^ on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:12:26 PM
Registrant Name: Marco Kawon
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Zum Hoechsten 4
Registrant City: Engelskirchen
Registrant State/Province: NRW
Registrant Postal Code: 51766
Registrant Country: DE
Registrant Phone: +49.2263969154
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]

It's a good start, need to mail him
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:13:16 PM
yes, do it, good job!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: QuicK^ on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:25:32 PM
Mail send, but I don't think he will reply, maybe Nick or aao25 admin must contact him.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:31:26 PM
oh  :shock: - maybe he can give us a cd with the data and someone with knowledge like Eliz could build a new tracking system  with the old stat info

If he doesn't reply by tomorrow let me know and I will try - he did answer me in the past

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:36:54 PM
maybe some vindictive mf - you know who - hacked the site

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:52:18 PM
yes, everyting is possible :), but i dont think so. not even aapg was there implemented because all is done with steam. but go on with playing, i am sure ELiZ did its own honor system which is already implemented at aa25assist. he did show me my honors at this time and it was 113. so there will be a way out of this little missery, stay tuned and play :)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 12:58:23 PM
Just wondering if Battletracker database goes down, does Assist let you log in anymore?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 13:08:15 PM
yes, this was the first reason ELiZ did his own honor system. to be independent from bt. done exactly for such a moment. also its own auth system as you know.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 13:19:13 PM
well this is good news Merlin ty
I remember the tv screen in the Bridge Tower  - didn't know it had to do with
what you said

Let's hope the best
Cheers
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 14:59:12 PM
yes lord, this it was :)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 15:29:55 PM
thanx
would be nice if there was also the old ranking system (Recruit to General)
and all the other stuff of BT and if the old info gets carried over

well I'll sit it out and wait
have to go to Africa anyhow for a month or two
thank you Merlin for all the things you have done for this community  :up:
Until then
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Koden on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 16:55:48 PM
I'm actually surprised they kept the website and all its related services online up to this date, i don't remember seeing many ads and they probably didnt make even for the cost of keeping everything up.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [F.U.N]Cpt on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 18:16:16 PM
the magic word is SOON koden
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [F.U.N]Cpt on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 18:30:18 PM
i hope assist admins find a way for registration new acc`s and servers. score is not important
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Koden on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 18:55:26 PM
the magic word is SOON koden
yes, this was the first reason ELiZ did his own honor system. to be independent from bt. done exactly for such a moment. also its own auth system as you know.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 20:23:32 PM
I'm wondering if he would ever consider selling the website as is and for how much. It might be worth looking into. I'm really curious about how much upkeep is and I would definitely consider paying for it if it means keeping new registrations in this game alive.

I will also try to get a hold of Eliz to see if I could get some help on making a separate account manager to replace BT but I realize he hasn't be active here for over a year. I just need to know how Assist interacts with BT to try to replicate it with minimal change to the Assist code.

I sent an email to homey asking for the upkeep cost or a database dump for AA players although I have very little faith in him actually responding.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Possessed on Monday, January 15, 2018, 01:43:25 AM
Assist should still work without BT, but then we will have to create a front end to account creation and maybe user stats. You can get into the stuff if you want Killa.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 15, 2018, 02:08:24 AM
Great to hear this! Thank you Killaman and Possessed for helping this community!!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: General_alkos on Monday, January 15, 2018, 02:38:46 AM
Anyway, just to be able to track players and servers and in the end we all know that there will be some solution as it has always been.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: 0z7he6unner on Monday, January 15, 2018, 06:59:22 AM
I was so excited when I noticed this game was still running through you guys. I was gonna make an account... but since BT is going down there is literally no way for me right now to be able to login and play. Any solution for this yet? Or will I have to wait?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Monday, January 15, 2018, 07:16:10 AM
I was so excited when I noticed this game was still running through you guys. I was gonna make an account... but since BT is going down there is literally no way for me right now to be able to login and play. Any solution for this yet? Or will I have to wait?
if you need an account I can hand you one since there seems to be no way to create new accounts atm. I'll pm you
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Vanoke on Monday, January 15, 2018, 12:39:12 PM
must we sent them all to you for new name !?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Monday, January 15, 2018, 13:15:16 PM
must we sent them all to you for new name !?
Didn't figure out better solution for a temporary issue of which no one knows how long does it last.

If you have ideas you can share them here :)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 15, 2018, 13:19:32 PM
it was a very nice and good solution. thanks for that.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Monday, January 15, 2018, 13:30:30 PM
Anyway, just to be able to track players and servers and in the end we all know that there will be some solution as it has always been.
Tracking is the last thing we're worried about. First priority is getting account registration working again. I'll take a look at making a webpage for it this week. I'll need to talk to Nick and Spanky because ideally it should be a part of the AAO25 website rather than some externally hosted site.
Assist does have some tracking stuff already done but as far as I am aware it was not completed and I have no idea what state it's currently in.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, January 15, 2018, 14:07:52 PM
Dear Merlin and whoever speaks German
I wrote an E-Mail to Marco(Homey) - let's see if he answers me - hope this will work

Lord-of-War  :style:


 
7:59 PM (4 minutes ago)
to marco.kawon

Gruess Dich Marco,
Wir alle hier bei Assist America's Army 2.5 sind sehr besorgt über den Shutdown Deiner Seite.
Wir können momentan keine neuen Spieler rekrutieren oder Namen ändern etc. und natürlich fehlen uns auch die schönen Statistiken.
Wahrscheinlich hast Du schon mehrere Mails bekommen, aber hier noch einmal die Frage:
Wäre es möglich die Seite zu übernehmen oder könntest Du uns die Daten irgendwie überlassen ?
Für eine Antwort wäre ich Dir sehr dankbar
MfG

Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 15, 2018, 14:21:57 PM
nice to hear that killaman. i know almost for sure that ELiZ did coded it to the end. he also had an import of the datas from bt. he could help very easy i guess - when he would answer the request :(
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, January 15, 2018, 14:38:30 PM
ah well - all seems to be taken care of
I feel kind of stupid now  :oops:

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 15, 2018, 16:42:28 PM
no lord, every try to take it back is a good step for sure. thanks for that.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 23:15:55 PM
We don't need tracker only need a system that allows players to login in assist.......

Again Merlin, poss, killa, teddy,  thanks for all your time you've put into this game to keep it alive long as it's been
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 02:36:09 AM
We don't need tracker only need a system that allows players to login in assist.......

Again Merlin, poss, killa, teddy,  thanks for all your time you've put into this game to keep it alive long as it's been
Something that count honor would be good as well (although not essential).
As Merlin said, ELiZ made most of this a few years back already.
Now it's a matter of enabling new user registration and secure logins (as well as existing accounts, hopefully). But since ELiZ hasn't been on here for over a year and seems to be hard to reach some of the process can take longer than it would ideally.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Vanoke on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 06:41:28 AM
I did look into ultimate respawn mod, in this is also a honer function points system. meaby that  can be the solution.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 23:24:18 PM
Something that count honor would be good as well (although not essential).
As Merlin said, ELiZ made most of this a few years back already.
Now it's a matter of enabling new user registration and secure logins (as well as existing accounts, hopefully). But since ELiZ hasn't been on here for over a year and seems to be hard to reach some of the process can take longer than it would ideally.
I could be wrong as I've been away for awhile, but I'm pretty sure honor is already primarily kept track of by the assist database and thus should see no change after BT shuts down.

Also, the goal is to not only allow new accounts, but account editing as well. Editing accounts is a pretty simple addition once account registry is up and running again. I just need some free time to work on it. Hopefully tomorrow through the weekend.
I have absolutely no insight as to how Eliz set this all up, but we're going to try our best to sort it out and get everything working decently well. I'd feel bad letting this community down after so long.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 05:34:50 AM
As battletracker seems to be up at the moment (maybe my E-Mail helped a bit and he felt sorry for us- no reply as yet) this is now the perfect time for Eliz or whoever is capable of setting up a new tracking system , account registration etc. to save the data and keep it for a new system.Would be a pity if all the Information is lost forever.I can't do it cause I have no clue about programming and all these things - otherwise I would - I am old and slow  :D

(Toplists,Servers and Personal Profile works on BT atm nothing else - no Registration or Name Change possible - I got no idea why it works - can't send private message to Homey on BT)

Please take this opportunity to do something before it is too late !!
Maybe tomorrow BT is offline again.


Thank you very much
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 05:58:52 AM
Battletracker works only for AA2 not for AA3 or Battlefield 2 or Battlefield 2142 etc !!!!!!

This means Homey definitely reopened the site especially for the AA2 crowd and that is us !!!!
Please try and push Eliz to share what he's got - maybe someone else can finish it.
Also if you still have the data of the inactive players it would be a good idea to include them ! (you know if you don't play for a few months your name gets taken off the list - but if you
play again your data is still there)

This would push the toplist to an substantial amount of players (remember there were about 7.000 Players before the training was obligatory)

This would attract even more players cause the more people are in the toplist the more active and alive Assist looks - even if there are maybe only 1.000 active players.

You know what I mean - People look at their stats and the toplists more than you all think - this is vital to keep the game alive !!! Just my modest opinion  :)

Please considerate and again we should act quick now

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: SASF-DarkShooter on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 07:44:30 AM
I'm not sure if it's still a viable plan to perhaps 'buy' BT or whatever, but i'm willing to pitch in if that's the case.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 11:16:13 AM
I could be wrong as I've been away for awhile, but I'm pretty sure honor is already primarily kept track of by the assist database and thus should see no change after BT shuts down.

Also, the goal is to not only allow new accounts, but account editing as well. Editing accounts is a pretty simple addition once account registry is up and running again. I just need some free time to work on it. Hopefully tomorrow through the weekend.
I have absolutely no insight as to how Eliz set this all up, but we're going to try our best to sort it out and get everything working decently well. I'd feel bad letting this community down after so long.

Thank you very much in the name of the community!!! Just great to see again that all are standing together and help its there.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 12:55:35 PM
wow Dark Shooter where have you been man - long time no see

Maybe you can get the old SASF crowd together  Xena etc.
We had funny games together on bridge remember and you showed me a few tricks as I was kind of new - welcome back

So what do you guys think as Homey seems to have reacted and given us a last chance
to either buy his site or use the info provided by him to create our own tracking site.
A response to my posts -see above- is being appreciated
Did anybody hear from Eliz yet ?

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Gullix on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 13:54:13 PM
I will also be able to donate some to keep this game / tracker alive..  from -s3xy.]Sp@rtaCu$!) .
-s3xy.]ZombaX aswell told me he would donate some if thats what needed..
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ]EIGHT[ on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 14:06:16 PM
Hello,
I wonder if I can recover my Battletracker account. To play again, I need an account to log in and install AA2.5
I've played a lot of years ago ... and now I have a little time and I would like to play again, but I have this problem.
If I can not recover my account, how do I create a new one to log in, once I have seen that the site has stopped working.

ATT,
FERNANDO
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Thursday, January 18, 2018, 20:16:10 PM
Battletracker works only for AA2 not for AA3 or Battlefield 2 or Battlefield 2142 etc !!!!!!

This means Homey definitely reopened the site especially for the AA2 crowd and that is us !!!!
Please try and push Eliz to share what he's got - maybe someone else can finish it.
Also if you still have the data of the inactive players it would be a good idea to include them ! (you know if you don't play for a few months your name gets taken off the list - but if you
play again your data is still there)

This would push the toplist to an substantial amount of players (remember there were about 7.000 Players before the training was obligatory)

This would attract even more players cause the more people are in the toplist the more active and alive Assist looks - even if there are maybe only 1.000 active players.

You know what I mean - People look at their stats and the toplists more than you all think - this is vital to keep the game alive !!! Just my modest opinion  :)

Please considerate and again we should act quick now

Lord-of-War  :style:

Again, stats and leaderboards/toplists are very low priority right now. The main goal is to get account registration and account editing working. I don't have much free time, just the registration and account management are pretty big tasks.

As for Eliz, I sent him an email 2 days ago and have heard nothing from him.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Friday, January 19, 2018, 13:47:05 PM
As for Eliz, I sent him an email 2 days ago and have heard nothing from him.
Does anyone have him on Steam - in case the email he used to use wouldn't be in active use anymore?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Friday, January 19, 2018, 13:47:17 PM
I actually got a response from Homey saying that he'll keep the AA pages up for a couple more months to give us time to create a replacement. He said that after so long he just wants to move on from Battletracker and I can't really blame him for it. He's done so much for this game I think he deserves a thanks from everyone.

Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: -sh4dy; on Friday, January 19, 2018, 16:12:21 PM
I actually got a response from Homey saying that he'll keep the AA pages up for a couple more months to give us time to create a replacement. He said that after so long he just wants to move on from Battletracker and I can't really blame him for it. He's done so much for this game I think he deserves a thanks from everyone.

Did you discuss the possibility of selling battletracker?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Friday, January 19, 2018, 17:45:14 PM
Did you discuss the possibility of selling battletracker?
I did suggest buying BT in my original email but he doesn't seem to want to do that, and I don't really blame him. It's his site with a ton of personal user data and handing it over to a stranger would definitely make me hesitant as well. If he responds to my question about registration in the mean time I'll bring it up again and see what happens.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Saturday, January 20, 2018, 08:22:57 AM
I would like to say to Marco/Homey thanks a lot for letting us time to get over to another registration/honor system. And also a big thank you to all the admins here to make this possible. Let us know when we can do something for you/us/it. And as you can see, we are a very strong community and not only bad, ugly, stupid guys :). Hooah!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Saturday, January 20, 2018, 11:33:27 AM
I can confirm that Battletracker is working again!! Good job KillaMan and Possessed. And thank you!! The overall honor is counting all together, nice. Like it was before. Thanks Marco/Homey!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, January 22, 2018, 04:26:59 AM
Well, I can just see how this is gonna turn out :
As Battletracker is working now for a few months the whole issue will be forgotten
and only be tackled once BT is completely down.
Eliz doesn't answer and noone else seems to give a shit about the tracking which I
don't quite believe. I could name you quite a few players who love the stats.
What about all the brilliant webdesigners that have been bragging in here about their talents.
Can't you design a new page? I am sure the community would pay for it.Anyway I am just worried that all the Information disappears and all the history of years of playing
is gonna be lost.
Please keep us updated about any progress in this matter

Thank you
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Monday, January 22, 2018, 06:17:09 AM
Well, I can just see how this is gonna turn out :
As Battletracker is working now for a few months the whole issue will be forgotten
and only be tackled once BT is completely down.
Eliz doesn't answer and noone else seems to give a shit about the tracking which I
don't quite believe.
Perhaps Battletracker works for your interest, but the biggest issue is still there, you can't register a new player nor handle player info. There's people working on their free time to get this issue solved.

I could name you quite a few players who love the stats.
We all could name bunch of people who care only about their own stats, for these people lack of possibility to register a new player is not an issue at all

What about all the brilliant webdesigners that have been bragging in here about their talents.
Can't you design a new page? I am sure the community would pay for it.
It's not about designing stuff, it's a lot more than that. Also the design doesn't matter at this point, the most important thing is to get profiles editable again, you need to have access to database which contains tons of personal information and you need to have all the knowhow for handling it. It's not that simple as you think.

Anyway I am just worried that all the Information disappears and all the history of years of playing
is gonna be lost.
Please keep us updated about any progress in this matter

Thank you
Lord-of-War  :style:
Are you afraid that your stats will be gone? It's been said several times that it's not the first priority to get stats working with the new solution, then again it's also been said that EliZ has made everything ready for time like this, you just need to be patient and let these people work when they have time, it's not a one hour job or like they could spend 24/7 their time to get things working.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, January 22, 2018, 12:42:44 PM
yes I am afraid that my stats are gone - I worked hard for it   :shock:
Sorry for being so impatient - I will wait and see then
I won't pester you guys anymore - my apologies
I will be away next week for a month or 2 anyway - maybe I get a surprise upon my return.
I understand that account registration is the most urgent issue at the moment -
I just love the stats per map - so nice to see where you stand

Anyway thanx to all dedicating their free time to this game and keeping this game alive

Cheers
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Monday, January 22, 2018, 14:57:22 PM
yes I am afraid that my stats are gone - I worked hard for it   :shock:
Sorry for being so impatient - I will wait and see then
I wpn't pester you guys anymore - my apologies
I will be away next week for a month or 2 anyway - maybe I get a surprise upon my return.
I understand that account registration is the most urgent issue at the moment -
I just love the stats per map - so nice to see where you stand

Anyway thanx to all dedicating their free time to this game and keeping this game alive

Cheers
Lord-of-War  :style:

I cannot promise that stats, and especially per map stats are ever going to return. I know some work was done on it a while ago, but how much and if it's kept up to date I really don't know.

This is a lot more than webapp work. That's the easy part. The entire auth system is pretty intricate and the only person that knows/knew how it worked is not around anymore.
I did receive an email back from Eliz yesterday and he says that he doesn't really remember how most of it was setup (it wasn't all setup by him) but did answer some questions for me and I'm trying to piece a lot of this stuff together.

This is going to take some time. Hopefully when there's a better understanding of how everything works, I can give a more certain answer, but for right now, our only goal is to get account management working.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, January 22, 2018, 16:39:38 PM
thank you
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: LegionQC on Monday, January 22, 2018, 20:14:11 PM
I would be ready to chip in some of my canadian currency for some publicity !!!! i dont know much about how publicity online works but we could try to pay some popular twitch players<<or I >> to play on AA a few hours here and there ! this game is FREE and Complete runs on low end pc this game should have MANY MANY players some good publicity wouldnt hurt i would chip in for publicity no matter what kind !!! if anyone has an android phone or tablet i have a great App to make free money threw paypal for doing nothing at all with 1 tablet and 1 phone i make 10$ a week and if you reffer friends u make 25% of what they make if we could be like 10-15 people using this systeme we could pay for alot of things basically for free !! im willing to chip in the 10$ a week i make ! And thanks to everyone working hard on trying to save our favorite game !!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 13:01:47 PM
This is my last attempt (E-Mail) to Homey
Then I'll give up.        Lord-of-War  :style:



Battletracker
6:40 PM (14 minutes ago)
to marco.kawon

Hi Homey,
Sorry to bother you again my friend.

It looks like the admins of assist will be able to tailor something to enable account registration in the next couple of months but as things stand noone seems to be able to program a site like yours.
It would be a damn pity if the nice stats per map, stats per player and overall ranking per player etc. are gone forever.A lot of us are playing this game since the beginning and you can imagine that years of information is gonna be lost.I am not bothered about the clan statistics.
I hereby ask you almost beg you can't we come to an agreement that we will cover your costs of running the site and pay you a certain monthly amount per PayPal.
There are more than enough players willing to donate.Please think it over.What have you got to loose except being kind ?

Yours sincerely
Nils (Lord-of-War)


6:42 PM (12 minutes ago)
to marco.kawon

That will be my last message to you. Sorry to have sent this to your work address - thought your battletracker E-Mail doesn't work anymore
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 03:48:32 AM
I actually got a response from Homey saying that he'll keep the AA pages up for a couple more months to give us time to create a replacement. He said that after so long he just wants to move on from Battletracker and I can't really blame him for it. He's done so much for this game I think he deserves a thanks from everyone.


Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 04:43:20 AM
Game is gonna die without stats  :cry:
I rest my case for now  ;)

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Scorpy on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 05:01:01 AM
Game is gonna die without stats  :cry:

i agree,  many ppl will leave if no stats ......... :censored:..............
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Vanoke on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 06:41:01 AM
Game is gonna die without stats  :cry:

i agree,  many ppl will leave if no stats ......... :censored:..............
not when assist make place for 285 . by making a link to all servers in 285 and make downloads possible and writing how to get in.   support it is aa army .
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ronski on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 07:24:31 AM
Speaking of stats, does Battletracker own the data or is Battletracker just a 3rd party site to display it all? If so, then stats wont be gone forever even if Battletracker comes to its end, it would be just a matter of time to build another site which would do the same interaction
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 11:39:07 AM
I don't think he owns our player data, but he put in all the work - I don't know -
PHP, SQL whatever he did (Homey) - I think the difficult part is the interaction between Assist and Battletracker - I am sure he wouldn't mind sharing the existing stats to date with us if we could figure out how it is all linked to his site.
I would love to do something like this if someone shows me but I am afraid my
knowledge is very limited and I know fuck all about programming languages.

We probably will have to start from scratch again and the sad part would be that all our history in this game will be lost if Homey isn't prepared to share his database with us - which by the sound of it he doesn't want to do - he somehow regards it as his own creation (property whatever)

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 11:49:10 AM
Sure he owns the data. It is his database, his webpage and more. You did decide to give him the datas when you did register your account, your server and more :).
As you can read, KillaMan will not ask him to sell them - and i can understand this.
But be patient, there is already a database for aa25assist. And if we are lucky, and no one did shut it down, we would have all datas already. If not, a database dump has to be done by aa25 assist admins - but be sure, they do know what to do, it only takes some time.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 12:02:01 PM
Roger that - I really hope you are right about this - Let's be patient then

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 12:50:33 PM
Speaking of stats, does Battletracker own the data or is Battletracker just a 3rd party site to display it all? If so, then stats wont be gone forever even if Battletracker comes to its end, it would be just a matter of time to build another site which would do the same interaction
BT owns all stats and player info. It's in their database. There's no other way it could work. The Army shut down their servers long ago, who else would be holding the data?
A while ago Eliz made assist database tables that mimic'd what it was getting from BT. This is why we have a list of all players and even some stats. I was told by eliz we could simply point auth to the assist database rather than BTs.

Also, Homey told me he would give me a DB dump and possibly some code behind it when he finally decides to shut it down. We'll see if that holds true.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 13:03:48 PM
well that sounds promising to me
Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Vanoke on Saturday, January 27, 2018, 07:41:48 AM
Killaman
Ask Gametracker if they can track 2.5   players
https://www.gametracker.com/search/aa/
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Saturday, January 27, 2018, 10:06:15 AM
Killaman
Ask Gametracker if they can track 2.5   players
https://www.gametracker.com/search/aa/
It's not the tracking that's the problem.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: raw on Monday, January 29, 2018, 12:12:26 PM
I had to take a screenshot of my profile just to have some memories...
Even tho the site is dead but i still wanted to visit there sometimes, sad to see it go down. I also wonder why Homie never wanted to transfer the site to some new admins?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Koden on Monday, January 29, 2018, 12:48:59 PM
I had to take a screenshot of my profile just to have some memories...
Even tho the site is dead but i still wanted to visit there sometimes, sad to see it go down. I also wonder why Homie never wanted to transfer the site to some new admins?
Personal data from the accounts details would be a reason, i think. Even if it's outdated material for the most part.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: -Vegeta- on Monday, January 29, 2018, 14:50:09 PM
I got a letter in today asking me to come to a forum as an employer. to teach me about data protection. If I cant protect the data i stand to lose up to 4% of my annual income. Just another rip off from the eletes who are railraoding us every time.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: razordenial on Thursday, February 01, 2018, 09:51:30 AM
What would it take to keep Battletracker up and running? I can offer services if that's the issue.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, February 04, 2018, 08:37:33 AM
KillaMan, can you give us a brief overview of the progress of the new registration page? Would be nice. And if you need some support or tester, let us know, maybe some can help. Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, February 15, 2018, 13:44:00 PM
I am back
Any News ? just curious ...

Btw what a coincidence  that Homey shuts down the site at the exact
time of the DDOS attacks - maybe that pissed him off

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, February 15, 2018, 13:59:30 PM
What would it take to keep Battletracker up and running? I can offer services if that's the issue.

Maybe he can help - why not take his offer ??
Any help should be aprecciated - or you guys to proud - or is it dangerous to let
someone in ?

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Thursday, February 15, 2018, 16:42:25 PM
welcome back lord. this is not that easy as you like to show us. the admins know what to do, homey did help us so far. so we will see what happend - in about 2 weeks or so. no need to be hyperactive at all ;)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Thursday, February 15, 2018, 19:58:38 PM
KillaMan, can you give us a brief overview of the progress of the new registration page? Would be nice. And if you need some support or tester, let us know, maybe some can help. Thanks a lot!
Not much at this moment. Still trying to decypher a lot of the Assist back end stuff. I have access to the assist database now, but there's a lot more work to be done such as trying to hash the passwords the same way it's done for BT accounts currently as well as other overlying account issues with our database. It's going to take some time and I don't have much time to give at the moment.

Maybe he can help - why not take his offer ??
Any help should be aprecciated - or you guys to proud - or is it dangerous to let
someone in ?

Lord-of-War  :style:
We do not own battletracker. We do not run battletracker. We have offered to host Battletracker for free and gotten nowhere. Homey has expressed his desire to let it die. I can try emailing him again but I don't think he's going to change his mind.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Friday, February 16, 2018, 10:40:08 AM
Roger that

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Saturday, February 17, 2018, 13:29:34 PM
Long as the game is playable do we really need a tracker???? Hmm no

Maybe if players really want it done then donate to assist project no one should have to work at this for free

Time is money
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Saturday, February 17, 2018, 18:03:39 PM
Thanks KillaMan for the information - and the time you do spend to it.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:40:16 PM
I think we could design a page like Battletracker - it is just the technical stuff to link it
to assist I am not familiar with - but I am sure if we ask around there are some
web designers and programmers  as far as I remember - for example the
guy who is just trying to rebuild the game or the guy some posts further up and there
are other players who studied all that which I can remember from the past

Why don't we just make this a community project - just an idea - what ya all think ?

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, February 19, 2018, 13:19:39 PM
here is already a working tracker ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQr2PYPBaA&feature=youtu.be

but i do not trust it :) the guy is from Israel ;)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, February 19, 2018, 15:34:33 PM
ok - but how does this work
must this be done for every user individually
pretty far off a site like BT - only counts honor as far as I can see
Maybe it's a start - idk much
For me like many other's it's important to have an overview per map and
the ranking system should be intact
I don't really know what Eliz did - would be interesting to find out

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 02:27:56 AM
here is already a working tracker ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQr2PYPBaA&feature=youtu.be

but i do not trust it :) the guy is from Israel ;)

Like has been said before, it's not the tracking that is the issue. ELiZ implemented that a few years back. It's the account registration and managing that's the issue right now.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 06:00:44 AM
ok I'll shut up for now

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 17:02:58 PM
Like has been said before, it's not the tracking that is the issue. ELiZ implemented that a few years back. It's the account registration and managing that's the issue right now.
No, tracking is still absolutely an issue, just one I am not concerned with at this time. There's a lot of pieces to fix tracking to make it work. As far as I am aware it was never finished or fully implemented. We're still pulling stats from BT.
 This can be looked at after higher priority stuff (account registration/editing) is completed.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 18:24:11 PM
thanks for this statement, great to hear it
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 01:32:29 AM
Just as a quick update, I have a working prototype of a registration page done. There's still some features/restrictions I need to add and a lot of testing to be done, but I figured I'd give some sort of update since there's been none for a while.

Next up to work on will be a login page and an account editing page. A bit more difficult of a task, but shouldn't be too bad.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 02:06:18 AM
Hoooah! Love to hear that, great work, thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, March 12, 2018, 12:42:41 PM
Would be nice to have another update :).
Thanks
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Monday, March 12, 2018, 21:30:40 PM
Would be nice to have another update :).
Thanks
Sorry, I've been a bit busy the past 2 weeks.
We're currently looking at Assist and figuring out the best way to test this thing. The source code I have is out of date and the language it was created in itself is pretty limiting. You literally have to pay to build shit. So we're looking at doing a live test. The downfall of this is that for the duration of the test nobody would be able to log in to assist. So basically we're looking for a time where we can get some testers on when nobody is really playing the game.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 02:46:41 AM
So lets get some testers. During the daytime at weekend, maybe. I would be in for a test, some others too?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Racker70 on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 03:07:37 AM
To whom ever,

We would be willing to lend a hand for any support which we could provide.  bealsmmohaven.com  We host game servers and teamspeak servers.

We play a variety of games, but mainly world of tanks.  We became nostalgic for AA and tried to have some of our members register finding that BT was shut down.  Contact Beals at teamspeak server ts.nafigg.com no password if you actually want to speak.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Troeca on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 14:56:17 PM
I got pretty spooked few weeks ago when i noticed the BT shutdown.

So lets get some testers. During the daytime at weekend, maybe. I would be in for a test, some others too?

Now that I found this thread to calm myself down I would also like to offer my help if there's anything I could do for this project. If you guys need testers as stated above or something I'm in.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Friday, March 16, 2018, 15:46:24 PM
admins, tell us quick what to do  - otherwise this game is really dead. we need new accounts very very soon.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ^Ta766^ on Friday, March 16, 2018, 17:22:12 PM
There  is and option to take all of the Americ'as Army accounts/players data from Battle Tracker and to creat new data reserve on another hosting website? is it possible?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Saturday, March 17, 2018, 01:43:17 AM
There  is and option to take all of the Americ'as Army accounts/players data from Battle Tracker and to creat new data reserve on another hosting website? is it possible?
We've already been storing AA accounts from BT for a long time now. The vast majority of players should be able to log in after the switch to our DB is done with no problem. Stats is a completely different matter entirely.

admins, tell us quick what to do  - otherwise this game is really dead. we need new accounts very very soon.
I'll try to get this test done soon. I've just been very busy with work and life.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: -Vegeta- on Saturday, March 17, 2018, 06:04:49 AM
I wouldnt be to concerned with stats
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Saturday, March 17, 2018, 10:09:59 AM
thank you very much - and sorry for my hurry ;) - let us know when we can support this in any way.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Saturday, March 17, 2018, 12:36:50 PM
I wouldnt be to concerned with stats

I would be !!
Stats are a very important part of this.Most players are attracted to this game because no other game offers or offered such a nice feature.
It has so many advantages like checking your mates and 'enemies' - looking up your improvements per map - checking your rank, honour, etc. etc.
It only has no value to people who just love to play around a bit for fun and are not interested in improving their skills which for example can also be seen by clan statistics and especially map stats.
I think it is a very vital thing to keep this game - we all love - alive.
Playerbase will go down drastically if this feature will disappear.

Lord-of-War  :style:

 
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ^Ta766^ on Saturday, March 17, 2018, 17:17:07 PM
well good to know and thanks for evrything  :up: :up:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Troeca on Sunday, March 25, 2018, 15:07:03 PM
I would be !!
Stats are a very important part of this.Most players are attracted to this game because no other game offers or offered such a nice feature.
It has so many advantages like checking your mates and 'enemies' - looking up your improvements per map - checking your rank, honour, etc. etc.
It only has no value to people who just love to play around a bit for fun and are not interested in improving their skills which for example can also be seen by clan statistics and especially map stats.
I think it is a very vital thing to keep this game - we all love - alive.
Playerbase will go down drastically if this feature will disappear.

Lord-of-War  :style:

Hear hear! :cool:

Even though I have enjoyed the nice gameplay for more than 10 years having those stats is the thing that ties up all those gaming moments as kind of narrative. I really love to sit down and compete with myself if I can rise my K/D ratio this evening and so on. Just makes me a bit disappointed that I lost my original account.

So if we are able to save current stats or just the feature please let us have that :up:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Sunday, March 25, 2018, 19:52:15 PM
I would be !!
Stats are a very important part of this.Most players are attracted to this game because no other game offers or offered such a nice feature.
It has so many advantages like checking your mates and 'enemies' - looking up your improvements per map - checking your rank, honour, etc. etc.
It only has no value to people who just love to play around a bit for fun and are not interested in improving their skills which for example can also be seen by clan statistics and especially map stats.
I think it is a very vital thing to keep this game - we all love - alive.
Playerbase will go down drastically if this feature will disappear.

Lord-of-War  :style:

 
I'm not concerned with stat tracking. Stats are meaningless. I don't know anybody that plays this gamer for stats anymore. The Competitive scene just isn't there.
That's not to say that I won't look into it, but there's many more pressing matters before stat tracking.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Sunday, April 01, 2018, 17:21:28 PM
Just a quick update: Possessed and I have noticed stuff that was wrong in our DB and are working to fix it. it's mostly done.
The main problem now is that once we switch to our DB, stats will no longer track on our side, so honor will not go up. We're currently looking into how we can use both our DB and BT as long as BT is still up.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Sunday, April 01, 2018, 17:29:15 PM
great to hear that, thanks a lot for it!!
i guess - as it did start again with those ddos attacks (already 3 times today) - i will start the protected server again (the contract will run out 12th of April, not yet ;)) - and i will pay the 300 Euros by myselt. just to fuck those idiots in the middle of thery faces.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Sunday, April 01, 2018, 17:48:48 PM
great to hear that, thanks a lot for it!!
i guess - as it did start again with those ddos attacks (already 3 times today) - i will start the protected server again (the contract will run out 12th of April, not yet ;)) - and i will pay the 300 Euros by myselt. just to fuck those idiots in the middle of thery faces.

Yea seen that shit early today, idiots with no life

send me a link I'll donate to help you merlin
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: shadi123 on Sunday, April 01, 2018, 19:33:23 PM
i was going to donate  50 euro but it didnt help time is lift iam so sry for this and very sad  and thanks for ur support
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: -Vegeta- on Monday, April 02, 2018, 04:04:31 AM
Starrt a new page merlin for donations. I will also help. can we not make a community server at least we all chip in and vote in admins
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Monday, April 02, 2018, 08:12:12 AM
i will do so tomorrow. now all are up and running again - protected mode.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Monday, April 02, 2018, 11:08:41 AM
Will Battletracker's Database be saved for the future ?

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Monday, April 02, 2018, 18:42:42 PM
Will Battletracker's Database be saved for the future ?

Lord-of-War  :style:

Maybe. Homey said he would give me a database backup when he shuts it down but we'll see. that wouldn't really help us all that much though.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Thursday, April 05, 2018, 03:57:10 AM
Just dreaming of the map stats again  ;)

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: shadi123 on Friday, April 06, 2018, 11:07:34 AM
sup guys can we get updated about the new login website as(battletracker.com)
can we know when its done so our friends can get back to the game
and thanks
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 12:51:33 PM
Wassssuuuup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM)
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Alex on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 18:21:20 PM
I've been trying to get a hold of possessed so we can maybe push this out in the next few days.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: [SWISS]Merlin on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 01:59:55 AM
great to hear!! let us know if you need some help.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Lord-of-War on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 04:16:33 AM
good news - we need new players desperately

Lord-of-War  :style:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: raw on Monday, April 23, 2018, 14:10:54 PM
Maybe. Homey said he would give me a database backup when he shuts it down but we'll see. that wouldn't really help us all that much though.

Wow, so you've actually got response from Homie after all these years..nice! thats something...
Does he have any interest to give up the site to anybody else?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 05:41:39 AM
I actually got a response from Homey saying that he'll keep the AA pages up for a couple more months to give us time to create a replacement. He said that after so long he just wants to move on from Battletracker and I can't really blame him for it. He's done so much for this game I think he deserves a thanks from everyone.
I did suggest buying BT in my original email but he doesn't seem to want to do that, and I don't really blame him. It's his site with a ton of personal user data and handing it over to a stranger would definitely make me hesitant as well. If he responds to my question about registration in the mean time I'll bring it up again and see what happens.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: raw on Saturday, April 28, 2018, 04:24:41 AM
Yeah i didn't mean to disrespect him for being inactive for so many years. There are thousands of players who thanks him for running that site for us over the years.

i wonder why every other tracking sites die after a while...is it so expensive to run a site with a lot of data coming every hour?
I talk also from aapg player perspective. There has been some nice looking tracking sites but they die after a month or so...
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ICON-BoMBer on Friday, November 02, 2018, 14:56:43 PM
so looks like it finally shut down...
I can't find the website anymore  :cry:

anyway had a great time ( 13 years :style:) on it.
I'm feeling old now  :P

Cheers to that!

time for a beer and AA without tracker   :makemyday:
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Friday, November 02, 2018, 20:43:45 PM
so looks like it finally shut down...
I can't find the website anymore  :cry:

anyway had a great time ( 13 years :style:) on it.
I'm feeling old now  :P

Cheers to that!

time for a beer and AA without tracker   :makemyday:

Fun while it lasted maybe all those frag rate players will finally enjoy playing for fun now lol but unlikely
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: Mixk on Monday, November 05, 2018, 23:21:08 PM
Battle tracker is back up at the moment any way.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Tuesday, November 06, 2018, 07:06:38 AM
Seems to be up indeed. But I wouldn't hold high hopes for it staying up for extended periods of time. The owner of it wanted to shut it down beginning of the year and I'm seriously surprised it's lasted this long.
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: dinggus on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 22:37:52 PM
Seems to be up indeed. But I wouldn't hold high hopes for it staying up for extended periods of time. The owner of it wanted to shut it down beginning of the year and I'm seriously surprised it's lasted this long.

So if BT goes down, does Assist go down?
Title: Re: Battletracker service will be shutdown forever soon
Post by: teddy_grizzly_bear on Thursday, November 29, 2018, 04:36:37 AM
So if BT goes down, does Assist go down?
No, Assist will continue to work just as it does right now.

EDIT:
To clarify, we've been running under the assumption that there is no battletracker for more than half a year now. So when it finally goes fully down, nothing will change.