Troy, add me on skype, colarules , thank you

Troy, how do you know that ? from what region is the ip of the attacker

The server was probably attacked from a IP which is masked with several proxies or VPN's. No1 dares nowadays to attack without being protected only 12 yo kids who downloaded a shutdown.bat file and edit a echo to Made by Myself would be stupid to do that.

If it was a multi-servers attack 1 IP won't do nothing, and booting services / hosting services usually do not share information to anyone, unless from FBI or something.

Regards

Well i don't understand why some1 want to shutdown this server... we all love this game and waited over 4 years to get a private server working..
I`m very curious to know who did this and why ..
*Probably is a group of communist chinese that hate us xD *

Will it be up again today?

I don't think so as they must find another host as the actual host ended the contract with them ...
Just be in touch with the thread

Said by someone who cant speak decent englisch . ;)

Even the nextstepgaming website crashed. Fanatik pb me man . I got a free website spot u can use .

blah server couldnt handle with a simple ddost attack?, this game doesnt have future ,close thread

Shut up ! Is the host who couldn't handle the DDoS attack, this has noting to do with the server files, and btw the server works great
:rtfm:

You are wrongly mistaken sir.

The game-server doesn't handle in the first place.
It's the host where a person pays the money that does not handle the DDOS Attacks.

I want to remind everyone,
I will make it bold..

I want to remind everyone:
- The server that was running the game-server files, was temporary. Since it's closed beta, no point spending tons of cash in a server if the game wouldn't work properly or if has not enough people, but! We had positive results, and an upgrade to the server was on the plans, when the open beta were released it would be running on a new upgraded server, and it will!

Do not worry, Twelve Sky 1 will return. It's a matter of a day or two.

Allow them to provide us the game we all awaited for 5 years.

More news soon.

Regards

if we all donate 1 euro per month, we could get a 128GB ram dedicated server xD

make twelvesky2 server, twelvesky1 is shit... soo bugged soo no effects total shit,this game doesnt have future...

eat shit and go play mayn or hungames

well then i am glad to hear that,i just wanna there to be one stable ts1 server where i will buy APs as well with pleasure

Just wait till there will be one single server and one large community so you can support it with your donations.
Just stay calm and wait for the news, this was a closed beta which went , in my opinion, successfully and as they said above they wanted to change the host so that they can run all the zones and so you can support them with your donation .

NSG plan to be the only single stable server, but since people are stubborn in wanting their own server, there might be more in the future, IF.
However NextStepGaming team is working to assure no problems will happen as we saw through the closed beta phase, the Denial of Service Attack hit us hard indeed, and we've learned the lesson.

Although I cannot say that NSG is totally safe against hacking, the team took the precautions to protect the game against it. Without relying on known-anticheats. I do doubt any other Twelve Sky 1 server will have such structure like us as the game files leaked from china are not protected against any hacks therefore these servers tend to fail if not protected with same layers as NSG.

As any service it has costs, right now only 1 person is paying for the whole server, I must say it is expensive in a year course. We will not ask for donations, however if people do want to donate we'll be thankful.
All donations will be forwarded to keep the server running!
Those who donate will receive NSG Points which can spend in-game item mall!

We are not a company, therefore you can expect sometimes lack of professionalism / formal speech, and resources... However we strive to keep the game running, give you the best we can do.

Regards

And Infinite Sky Project ?
I don't bother the other people trying to make their own ts1 private server, i have a long story about the private servers running only for them selves and all of them went down, even if the servers were pretty fun and great.
At a point all of them reorganized the gameplay for earning money from donations via VIP system ...

What i meant with one single server and community is that your and Liam's team will work together .

//and for the security , yes i can say the client is somehow protected,i only triend to see if the dphack is still working but the client crashes and from that point i said i will not try anything on this pserver.
If i find something that works i`ll pm Troy or fantatik

As far as I know , MegaByte indeed helped us and it's GM in our server.
He also have done the simple registration from if I am not mistaken which allowed people to create their accounts easily.

In-fact I do think later on, once InfiniteSky is actually finished working on which may take a year more, prolly more cannot tell depends on how fast things get fixed on their side, there might be a merge or so.

Our game security system is still under-development and some improvements will be done along with time, our priority right now is to put the server back online. This setback has put our plans & workings on hold.

Players will have to update a game file in order to access the new server which we will provide later on , once the server is ready.

Regards

Liam is a great guy . Well all i can say to you guys is good luck and see you on the server, btw doom add me on skype so we can talk, no more spamming here : colarules .

It seems the website and game is down for nextstepgaming? Is it server maintenance?

Lookup to MrDoomJr post

OK yeah I see what he said. Looking forward for ts1 to comeback. Thanks alot for those who's put hard work into bringing back ts1.

From what I read contract with host ended this means u guys must find a new host?..


Why not make a donation table so ppl can donate and get a better host who's not a pussy?

At this time i don't think this is a proper solution. Just let them do their work, they know what they have to do :handsdown:

If you want to donate, you should donate megabyte his project.
This private server is a great thing, but in the end I rather have megabyte his server, @megabyte any way you can speed up your project with the current server files available?

Indeed , alos adding to this , why is mega's server taking so long but this one was launched in a bit ? Whats the difference that infinitesky is going to have ? I really dont know if i should start wasting my life on this private server or just wait for infinitesky ?

Hello everyone,

If everything goes as planned and the game runs smooth, once InfiniteSky project is finished if possible there will be a merge. InfiniteSky & NextStepGaming TS1 will be one. But this will still have to be discussed later on by both teams.

By the way the difference is that we are hosting the chinese version, and the team of InfiniteSky are developing a TS1 Server Emulator which can run on the latest version of KR Client if I am not mistaken!

If we are able to merge our data with InfiniteSky later on, the game will no longer use the current files and another downloadable client will be required. That's alot of work to be done indeed, but the result in the end is an upgraded version of twelve sky 1.

Regards

AS far as i know this one is on the chinese database, the client does not have so much improvements like the korean one which is still active and is getting updates from alt1 . Although you can play on this if you want cause i understood that the 2 private servers ( InfiniteSKy and NSG ) will merge onto one sinle big private server for a stronger community.
And this one is still not translated, only some attrs to itmes, the menu, skillbar, are translated but new updates will come after the closed beta

Why to donate on something that take years to develop?

I understand that megabyte work hard on his server to make it work but I see no reason on donating.

I would rather donate to a server where I can play.

Also MyDooMJr we are waiting server to get back up again :D We appreciate all work u guys put into server :P

As we know emulator will not be like off serverfiles,like mega project,emulators everytime are unstable,bugs appears everytime, game isnt good constructed in emulator like official files because its an emulator,just emulate the game(sure its legal to host a pserver usiong emulator).STOP to say project will be moved to MEGA server because you cant do that, offserver vs emu servers =>> bugged characters and much more buggs.Not even in Lineage emulator,Wow emulators,and other games that use emulator in private server arent off like.You didnt realized the mega project its up from 2011 first time with ts2 (where its the private server?),from 2012-2013 with ts(where its the private server?)Sorry Mega i RESPECT you but you treated me with disgust when i asked you for some help and i think we are humans and we are equals in some perspectives.Sure now maybe we can have a Mega project because of this serverfiles.Off serverfiles in my opinion are the PRO.And btw for others who didnt know Client credits are worked by me on translation with MEGA TOOLS(RESPECT) ,then i wanted to help TROY and sure he didnt helped me but he said "Thank YOU!I needed this" i worked on register website too ,when i wanted to help community and i wanted to help other future projects of 12sky he stoped me 2 times(TROY).All its about TROY here where you look you say "TROY".Sorry peoples i want to help but i stop here,i dont have space because of this "TROY".>>>Troy>>I WANT MONEY thats it = more peoples,more donations.A big smile from Troy to you guys!


Pro About Emu: In emulator can be implanted more features like auto events,auto reward,can work easy with DB,working easy with all files thats mean a emulator, and yes his emu work with Korea servers that are updated everytime.Updated games btw arent like first time,new items appear,new armors,new zones and game become destroyed.

PS:Leave the servers as they are to REMEMBER THE OLD TIMES!


RESPECT MEGABYTE sorry TROY but you arent "GOD" just a simple person with some knowledge in C++ or whatever,humans are equal!


PEACE!

I wanted to thank you : MegaByte,worked with him on InfinitieSky not so much but with some translation things,commands,i apreciate this,to Ane a GREAT PERSON,Elmo8 i will not forget you, everytime helps peoples and gives great guides.SEMA i dont know you some much but i see you are a good guy,keep it up.RESPECT!


PUT THE SERVER ONLINE SEMA PEOPLES WAITING YOU!!!!!

Money, money, money... I am working on InfiniteSky for about a year now. My objective was to learn how to MMORPG servers and not to earn money from people playing it. When I see all this kind whining I do wan't to quit working for free and start doing something for my own pleasure and business. Yes, development can take long time, but even official servers upon release have bugs and exploits. This is what closed beta and open beta it's for, is to try to find all of those and fix when its possible.
Once InfiniteSky is finished it will beat the shit out of official servers. Their resource consumption is out of the earth and current server logic vs the performance we getting is ridiculously bad.
Those leaked Chinese files are still bugged and its not fully featured as far I know and open for some exploits. Win32 application if not mistaking, that requires an additional paid license when hosting. Hosted "in a bit" that has no preparation or w/e as people often are bathed in boiling water doing stuff careless and quick.
Pro about emulators? Yeah, there are many, only if the team cares about it. Perhaps team is too much describing me and Liam, but we definitely solve problems on pretty much like senior developers but without time restrains. This past year give us a lot of knowledge and we or at least I am decided to host the server, soon. It's beautiful that the only thing that its considered us to be Korean official are packet structure and bytes between the client and client itself. Everything else is just better. No one helped or told us on how to improve server structure, and no one even have a clue what's under the hood of our bbe. We have put really a lot of thought into everything and we won't stop now.
And lastly more important is to increase the community and encourage to play this awesome hack and slash game, because keeping the same old community, and lick their asses has only one ending result - it will be gone with passing time.

Thanks,
Ane.

Those files aren't as bugged as you may assume. They just need proper care. They'll do untill Infinity Sky reaches the later testing phases. Do not bother with what al3css says, he is not worth it.. at all, the emulator is indeed superior to ALT1's own servers.

I don't know how long the process is of getting a new host, but is it possible to saturday or sunday?

We have got the new host already.

We are just configuring the server again, it took alot of hours to recover the data from the old host because of the download speed was really slow.

Like I've said yesterday the server would be online today or tomorrow if it goes smooth.

The new server is more powerful than the one we had, and the host which we've chosen seems to be high quality. Let's see how everything goes when the game-server comes back online!

We will be posting here the information when everything is set to go.
Thank you for the attention,
NextStepGaming

@Ane.

I didn't wanted to be mean when I said that, I appreciate all work you and liam do for TS1, you guys really do a great job and get involved into this.

About server that just open it's not bugged like people tell and assume, maybe there are few bugs but they will get fixed.

@MyDoomJr @ Troy

Those are great news :D I am very confident on ur work guys and really hope server get back online .

let the new servers to come online :)

Let them come... Anyway we players will stick with fantatik and Troy! :D


NextStepGaming TS1 FOREVER BABY! :mofo:

The difference between this private server and megabyte his project is that megabyte and co (Ane) etc coded it themselves (better than alt1), Ts1 was a poorly coded game, megabyte etc have been working on it improving it the best they can ( even coding it from almost scratch, correct me if I'm wrong mega and ane). It is taking so long because they do it in their free time and are coding it from scratch, the difference is infinity sky will be much better, Mega for instance made alot of hacks already impossible in his server. Do whatever you like, you can play this one for a while and once megabyte his project is finished join that one, or just wait for megabyte his server.


I am not saying you should donate, but it would really help them, probably even speeding up the project. In my opinion I'd rather donate to a better but not yet finished server than a temporary server.

With donations I actually meant using the money to help the project, not for own earnings. For example the mesh simplification you used.

@Almar, If Liam's project is made form scratch , that means the project wont be affected by copyright laws am i right ?

I believe so yes.

So much text wow :D

The server emulator is but its currently LGPL3 I think? So free for anyone.
It requires work still but Ane (bialy90722) and Liam / My Self (MegaByte) are still there.
We recently had another 2 people contact us saying they would like to help code so thats nice.

I guess we made the server project open source to hope that the community would join in and help us finish it quicker and make it the best it can be. But they have kinda let us down. But at least there have been a few great helpers out there who share their information and experience on the game.

Most of the other people just bitch and whine about our slow progress and wanting to play right now. Its like they don't understand we have lives/jobs/study etc.... At least sema's server is a way for them to play now and get back into the game they enjoyed so much, so treat the server right, please don't exploit the dupe bug and other things and get it destroyed like the original servers :D.

bialy90722 has been an amazing person though hes one of the major reasons im still working on this thing :D its great fun and learning yep.

As for Fantaiks/Sema's server yeah it will be back up he got the host the other day with anti ddos lets hope it works well :).

He has server costs now that we don't so hes most likely going to ask for donations to help cover those costs.
From what I understand this is normal with privately funded/hosted servers. Paying for it out of your own pocket and running it like a pro is not sustainable generally.....

Donations to the InfiniteSky project go towards getting stuff we might need, eg we might get cash shop points, software or even pay some artists and stuff. Heck we might even buy pizza and energy drink haha, but it does make us feel better about working on this project for all of you when we see the thanks and gratitude that some have you have shown us.

As for wanting to donate for something you can play on well that's understandable basically just want something in return whether that is assurance you can keep playing on that server or that you get something in game who knows.

As they have said they will switch to our server code when it is to a playable state. It is not quite there but we are getting more excited with some of the recent improvements. So its worth helping us out where you can be that by donations or by sharing your information, checking for bugs when we do our tests or going over our issues in github and checking in the server its self to make sure we haven't forgotten anything.

We do require some people to help with the English translations, we use spreadsheets on google docs some of you have seen them they are available for anyone to see. Also the messages.dat has some broken information that needs fixing up....

Troy has done a pretty good job on preventing some of the known exploits/hacks and preventing packet sniffing/tampering with wpe pro. He even patched out game guard problems that afflicted all the other servers/clients running on the leaked chinese files exclusive for Sema's server.

I am not understanding the desire there was by someone to ddos such a small server.....

If you think something is a waste don't do it.