: K THE CONNECTION LOST IS GETTING OLD ALREADY

YOU ALL WORKING ON FIXING THAT ISSUE...ALSO PLANES DISAPPEARING!

What's your plans for correcting these issues?

I believe Zup is working on this and the Game-Quit bug. He says it's hard to diagnose, something to do with the operating system or other supporting software on some phones. Yes, very frustrating; I finish maybe 30% of my games, and the rest I get booted.
Manfred

Excellent...looking forward to a smooth flight.
Thanks for chiming in Manfred.

Shodogger aka --=paws=--

Ah yes Paws. You were riddling me with bullets the other night. While that's not an uncommon occurrence, you were making me feel like a total noob.
M

lol paws has a habit of doing that
just look at my planes...

Yeah this old plane I got is a killer!

Just in the last few days I have been getting the "connection lost" message more frequently. I have used different connections as well as devices. It seems that the servers are overwhelmed or there is a problem with program. Z, please look into this, it is becoming frustrating.

Sure is...and at such critical times... Arrrrgh

Last night i was at my freinds.The 3 of us were all playing df.i am using android tab,93 was playing on iphone and Denzilla on ipad3.we were on 2 seperate missions all connected to 1 wifi.
We all got connection lost simultaniously.The server is an absolute joke.

As far as a fix has anyone actually heard from Z lately.His twitter account last post was 20 November.The Echoboom site has never been updated since atleast November as games they are workin on should have been released back in november so the page has never been updated.Not very good buisness.
Also the nature of appointing moderators to deal with this forum.

The forum seems to be the only thing keeping the game going.

J4ff wrote: Last night i was at my freinds.The 3 of us were all playing df.i am using android tab,93 was playing on iphone and Denzilla on ipad3.we were on 2 seperate missions all connected to 1 wifi.
We all got connection lost simultaniously.The server is an absolute joke.

As far as a fix has anyone actually heard from Z lately.His twitter account last post was 20 November.The Echoboom site has never been updated since atleast November as games they are workin on should have been released back in november so the page has never been updated.Not very good buisness.
Also the nature of appointing moderators to deal with this forum.

The forum seems to be the only thing keeping the game going.

Z has been communicating with the moderators in an offline group. He is alive and well, working hard on Dogfight. Servers fixes are on his list of priorities, as are solutions to other current problems. As I mentioned previously, we'll need to be patient. I like to play the game a lot and also am frustrated by the game quitting, connection lost, etc. He is aware of all of it and is working on a solution. In the meantime, try playing at different times of the day -- that's what I'm trying to do.

Manfred

This is all good news.However to avoid all the what ifs and i believes.Any correspondence which regards problems and fixes which effect all players not just mods and should be made public in the Announcement section or stickied in the support section.This would be most appreciated by all,thank you.

j4ff, don't judge so quick. I actually made a case for trying not to post so often since there are volunteers moderators that will help everyone. I think they are doing an excellent job and they can testify that we talk on daily basis so we all know what's going on.

The server issues are very complicated since they are not all under my control, it depends on amazon, microsoft, 1and1 and softlayer (I have multiple providers), also with chrismas there were huge traffic going on on my servers and all servers worldwide (it was all over the news that even Netflix went down for a few days!). We are working with the providers to have better servers and connections but as usual it all depends on the amount $ we can afford to pay to them because since everybody has the same issues they give priority to the bigger guys (and bucks).

A lot is going on on our side that it's not visible, but unfortunately I can't share all information with everyone because we have signed agreements. The website hasn't been updated for months because we are doing a major update and it's not as simple as copy and paste html. Moderators now have a private area to be able to ban/unban/mute/unmute and so on. Many changes to databases, speed up network connections, setting up multiple redundant servers so that when one fails not all break, etc... we just have to prioritize: website or players? We usually go for player servers as a priority and then on the "free" time we update the website.

Also, in this past week we had to deal with a new version for Apple, another one for Samsung Apps, problems with Samsung Galaxy phones, and Amazon Kindle Fire. These issues were stopping many people from playing... again, we just have to prioritize because unfortunately we don't have unlimited resources. We are working hard and doing as much and as quick as we can. That stops me from posting more often and that's why i'm grateful to the mods taking much of the support workload off

Didn't any of you read the terms of agreement? It literally states that by accepting this contract you will allow any changes, updates, etc.

i have played games that cost a lot more and worked way worse....and they were designed for only 1 system! i can imagine the complexity of making the same game compatible to several different devices and operating systems all at once. my hats off to you Z

thenightmaresbegi wrote: Didn't any of you read the terms of agreement? It literally states that by accepting this contract you will allow any changes, updates, etc.

thenightmaresbegi wrote: Wtf!!!!!!!!!! I thought they fixed this problem already!!!!!!!!! Its fuc**** back guys.

think back before you jump on the kiss my butt band wagon.

At least we are aware now.

no biggie, just letting you know that we are not just "gone". Dogfight is our little baby around here so in our heart it is priority #1. It's just when we have to eat and pay rent that it moves to #2 lol

I definitely understand how frustrating it is when servers go down and we can't play. When that happens, you should picture this because it's what usually happens:

1) 6am, wake up, check emails and... I get a flood of emails from the backend servers saying that something is messed up. (I created a system that every minute it checks for all servers so that I know when one fails and tries to pinpoint exactly in what).

This is the moment of == ALL HELL BROKE LOSE!!! ===
Joaquin goes across the house with OMG OMG OMG looks

2) 6am-7am, on the subway has to remote log in from a cell phone and take the laptop out with everyone looking at him like "one of those guys that work on the subway, get a life!", then begin checking wtf is going on with the servers with his sporadic connections. shooting emails to all tech-support existing in this planet so they can reboot stuff, fix their firewalls, run their updates etc and rebooting machines.

3) 8am if things are still not fixed I finally made it to the office so at least I have a faster internet connection to deal with the issue

Now imagine this at 5pm, 2am, 5am... it's lot of fun to work in a 24/7 environment lol

4) Hit reply to everybody that sent me an email saying that why they are blocked, why they can't connect, why my game sucks and I deserve to die on a slow burning death while drowning (yea, I got that one, still trying to figure out how to actually achieve that death


in sum, I love it. It's fun, it sucks sometimes but it's fun

A slow burning death while drowning!! sorry I just pictured that and found it totally hilarious, cruel, wicked, evil, but hilarious! And it wasn't me by the way, I'd have sent the sheep after you! Or Legends cat!

You did know you have created a very large virtual mental asylum...,did'nt you!?

ERRRRRRRR I'm soo fed up with the force closing!! Sorry all, but i think i rock EVERY game i enter, but this fc is not allowing me to excert my full amount of pain on peeps! NOT COOL! I didnt play for a WEEK, and plus the WEEK or so i HAVE been playing and still fc?! Come on!! Hire some geek or someone to fix this!! For real.....soo annoying! This has become big enough to be a bussiness for you, and if you must outsource a bit...do it! Sheesh! Find a friend that can handle it, or pay someone. This game has all the oportunity to set you up. If it worked properly all the time i would pay for a "monthly or yearly subscription". Come on, just keep up on it, or pay someone who will. Or sell it!!

Jeez.........Jasmine

funny you apparently know better than me how much money it makes so that it can set me up

ironically right now it wouldn't even cover the cost of rent, so unless you have some "geek" who can program all this for less than $500 a month that you can refer to me, i'm afraid you got it wrong

HEELLLLPPPP!

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LOVINNNNNN IT!

Me too paws. Getting use to it

Well I'm glad it's not just me, I'm not alone. And you're never alone, either.

Yep, me too. This happens from time to time.

Sux ! No server at all now. The games I did get to finish were terrible. LAG. Almost couldn't shoot any 1. Aggravating for sure boys and girls.

Ahh, its happening again! [E]PANZER

This may be good news... Fix is on the way???

Hey All,

Zuperman has been made aware of the issue. I have no doubt that he is working hard toward resolving this issue.

Should I receive any detailed info, I will post it here.

Until then, lets relax. Maybe catch up on our forum correspondence.

Your patience is appreciated.

Guess I'll do those Practice Missions.

Play battle bears mist, i play that game too.