12-05-2022, 05:59 PM
(12-05-2022, 04:33 PM)Haxus Wrote: Luckily the servers did pretty well during that time. I mostly ignored them. There were a few problems that required restarts but all in all they ran well enough all summer. I missed the uninterrupted power of the computer center. It seemed like every time a big thunder storm blew through town the servers lost power briefly, enough to reboot them.
There were plenty of times over the past months when the servers crashed or at least a lot of them were in "limbo", and then a random server reboot a couple days later saved us all. The thought of those reboots actually just being because of thunder storms and not your doing is both amusing and shocking.
(12-05-2022, 04:33 PM)Haxus Wrote: I considered adding LAN play capability. It would not be difficult. It will take time to get it right and it isn't needed for the solo game. I decided to save that for a future update.
A lot of people will be happy to hear that you are still considering it. While it has been joked many times that Hazeron is a singleplayer game with IRC, it think multiplayer is still one of the best features.
A simple optional IRC integration would be fun, so we can have a version of Galactic chat in Hazeron Starship. Maybe rename it to "Multiverse chat" or something.
(12-05-2022, 04:33 PM)Haxus Wrote: The game servers will be down indefinitely. If the Steam version brings in any significant amount of money I might consider reviving them, just for fun.
We will all have our fingers crossed.
Until then, when LAN play is potentially implemented, we have a lot of people saying they would love to host a massive community server for it. Not sure how it would work out, but the idea is interesting at least.