Space Combat Community update:

[[TFA]quantum]

There is quite a few new players at Voobly presently who are highly active daily. Mostly DJO pilots but NRN is once again flying active at BSC. It's a good time to shake off the rust and bash a newbie. In other news, DJO pilots and officers have created a Wiki site with XvT/XWA related content. This is an editable Wiki site where anyone can contribute. A few non-DJO clubs have already added their club's logo and brief profile. We would appreciate RBL's contributions as well. This is the link to the  START page. To view where your club's profile would go, click on the highlighted/colored text for "clubs" in the introduction.
http://uharc.net/xvt/start
Our stated objective: To support and promote the continuation of the Space Combat Community.

[Azis]

Well there have been attempts by RBL to be eligible for events, however, we have all met with some unknown resistance at Battlestats. Not only are we not able to enter events, but us members are unable to join RBL at Battlestats....

I think Holmes submitted a bug report but I was unable to access even that so.....

I know you have been informed of this problem so any help or insight as how to rectify the situation would surely be appreciated.

~§~

Admiral Azi§

[Holmes]

Hi quantum, I put in a bug report on BSC as nobody is able to signup to RBL.
http://www.battlestats.com/reports.php?1849

User	Holmes (10334)
Date	18/02/2011 22:02:52
Report to	Engineering Director Capn (2112869)
Detailed description of the problem,  including any error messages	With clubs.battlestats no longer around, members can no longer sign up to RBL club 596 On the signup process it says this is a clubs club and to go to the clubs signup link. This should be removed from the RBL clan signup process so that members can sign up like normal since BSC clubs no longer exist.
Any related BSC ID(s) or URL(s)	club: 596 http://clubs.battlestats.com/squads/RBL/join/

As an aside, do you guys need some help with the site? I can offer my time and skills if so.

[Acehigh]

My comp is fully functional again after having yet another reformat lol.  As soon as we can get things sorted out with BSC and I can rejoin our clan, I'll be more than happy to get back into flying xvt and xwa   Will be starting with a fresh pilot  though lol, man I hate that hehe  ☼§☼

Capt.  Acehigh

[[TFA]quantum]

RBL's admin problem has been brought up at several locations. I posted at the DJO liaison comlink for BSC. Senior Space Combat admin for BSC Specter was notified as well. This is his response:

"RBL can also seek help by posting on the BSC discussion boards at http://www.battlestats.com/mb/?forum=11 and by contacting the Programming Director directly at capn at darkjedi dot org."

If you haven't already done so, I would send an e-mail to capn directly. He is fairly active and should get on it soon.

[Holmes]

Thanks quantum. All emails to capn are bouncing back ...

554 5.7.1 <capn@darkjedi.org>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied

[Holmes]

It would seem that all emails are failing at darkjedi.org ...  Quantum can you let Swedish know that mail is not working for DJO?

[[TFA]quantum]

Someone may be able to help you with your BSC problem: Contact-  NightBlade
cwright16@hotmail.com

-He has taken an interest on the DJO/BSC forum bulletin and requested that you contact him. He has SysOp status at BSC.
-His stated issue at this point is this: There are two(2) RBL accounts at BSC, and he isn't sure which one is current or valid.

[Holmes]

Thanks quantum. RBL's BSC id number is 596. I'll shoot him an email as well.

Thanks again

[[TFA]quantum]

Well, everyone seems to have the other's e-mail addresses. According to the DJO comlinks, Holmes has e-mailed NightBlade. Has anything positive progressed from this yet?

[M1A2Tanker]

I have no idea, I think Holmes has been leading the charge on this issue.  To be fair, the issue with the clubs/groups thing has been going on for....geez, 10 years now?  Oy. 

Either way, Holmes will probably have the latest information.  Just may be delayed in replying.

[Holmes]

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply.

I been talkin to the bsc dev's about this. They are actually working on a completely new system, which I have test drove a little, looks nice and clean so far. Much easier to navigate than the current/old. I think the current plan is when the new system goes live, any active clans will just re-signup, users, clans and all. Kind of a start from scratch thing. The old system will be linked so all old stats and prestige is maintained, however at current writing the old data itself will not be imported into the new. There are many valid reasons for this which after hearing them, I am in agreement with. I'll explain them in more detail if you all like, might be easier if we got together for an IRC meeting or something.

The current/old system is borked in a way that we basically have to create a new clan id anyway... although it "might" be possible to dig around the database to fix the current, it may be a futile effort. Thing is there was a system failure sometime back at bsc, and as a result bsc is missing much of the admin pages they used to administer everything. So without those it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack on heaps of code (or code that doesn't exist at all anymore) that was written before the current guys who maintain it arrived on the scene.

Thats basically it in a nutshell.

I've volunteered to help them anyway I can with coding and database stuff. Although the last couple weeks I've been caught up in a move in RL, so really have not been in front of the computer at all until now. Hopefully they didn't think I ran away LOL

[M1A2Tanker]

So the stats themselves might be able to be transferred over or at least linked to so you can see what you had previously, but actually using the old profiles will likely not be possible, am I understanding that correctly?

[Holmes]

Yeah that's how I understand it anyway.

[Holmes]

I've fixed the signups for RBL on BSC, it operates just like it did in the way old days before we were signed up to the bsc clubs club thing thats no longer around.
Everyone should be able to participate again.

http://darkjedi.org/comlink/?cl=1693&msg=6316869&thread_id=1317252#message-6316869

Cheers