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Update on PT Game security breach: game down till Oct.; PT offline for next 5 or so weeks.
Topic Started: Aug 26 2012, 07:02 PM (251 Views)
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Update on the security breach: http://forum.project-terra.com/index.php?/topic/8958-beta-and-alpha-info/
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Posted Yesterday, 03:23 AM
Alright guys, gonna make this short and sweet.

As I have previously stated, there appears to have been a breach in security. Unfortunately, it also looks like there are many holes in some of the code, some of which would take a long time to fix. So, in an effort to keep things secure, we will be working on Beta full time. This means that the Alpha release of the game will be down until such time as Beta can be completed.

At this time, we are estimating the first week of October as the launch date for Beta. I will leave the forums up until then. I hope that you understand my decision here. I would again like to apologize for the problems that happened today.

So -- recap how I'm understanding this: the version we've been playing has been the Alpha release. With the amount of time it would take to fix Alpha, they could be working on releasing the Beta. So they're shutting Alpha down permanently, and working on releasing the Beta version in October.

Both Stable and Sandbox will be down until Beta's released -- so no more PT until then. :O


EDIT: For public discussion on this unfortunate occurrence, and how it relates to the CCC in PT, go vent or comment in This Thread Here.

For Commonwealth Citizens/CCC Members to privately plan our alliance's future in PT once Beta is released, please discuss over in this thread here.
Edited by Sheldomar, Aug 27 2012, 11:07 AM.
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Update as of Oct. 3 - game is still not back up yet -- might be any day now, but might be another week and a half. Stay tuned.
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The evening of Oct. 11, and PT still isn't back up yet......
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Alright. This thread has gotten rather out of hand. It's time for a reset.

The purpose of the thread is to provide information on the Beta rollout and for players to ask questions about how Beta will be structured, how the rollout will be carried out, what will be carried over from Alpha, etc. It is not a place to suggest new game mechanics, or discuss how they should work. It is also not a place to harass Chris about when exactly the rollout will take place. Any changes in estimated date will be posted in this thread as they happen.

Now for a recap on the basics of the Beta roll-out.

1.) Any players coming from Alpha to Beta will receive some type of in-game bonus. What this bonus will be, Chris has not decided yet.

2.) The goal is to begin Beta roll-out within the next few days. Chris is working hard to meet this goal. If the goal becomes untenable, a post will be made in this thread with revisions to the timeline.

3) Beta will not be opened to the general public immediately. The roll-out will be gradual, starting smaller and then snowballing until registration is thrown open to everyone. This will be accomplished by using an invite system. Codes will be generated that grant access, and these will be distributed through a variety of means. After a certain number of codes have been given out, players will be able to send their own invites.

Now, multiple warning posts have been made in this thread by the Moderation Team about off-topic posting, spam posts, and posts that do nothing more than ask "What day is the game coming out." As these verbal in-thread warnings have proven insufficient to stop such posts, a different approach will be utilized. Any post in this thread that breaks the forum rules or falls into the categories listed above will receive a formal warning.
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Oct 14 2012, 09:44 PM
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Alright. This thread has gotten rather out of hand. It's time for a reset.

The purpose of the thread is to provide information on the Beta rollout and for players to ask questions about how Beta will be structured, how the rollout will be carried out, what will be carried over from Alpha, etc. It is not a place to suggest new game mechanics, or discuss how they should work. It is also not a place to harass Chris about when exactly the rollout will take place. Any changes in estimated date will be posted in this thread as they happen.

Now for a recap on the basics of the Beta roll-out.

1.) Any players coming from Alpha to Beta will receive some type of in-game bonus. What this bonus will be, Chris has not decided yet.

2.) The goal is to begin Beta roll-out within the next few days. Chris is working hard to meet this goal. If the goal becomes untenable, a post will be made in this thread with revisions to the timeline.

3) Beta will not be opened to the general public immediately. The roll-out will be gradual, starting smaller and then snowballing until registration is thrown open to everyone. This will be accomplished by using an invite system. Codes will be generated that grant access, and these will be distributed through a variety of means. After a certain number of codes have been given out, players will be able to send their own invites.

Now, multiple warning posts have been made in this thread by the Moderation Team about off-topic posting, spam posts, and posts that do nothing more than ask "What day is the game coming out." As these verbal in-thread warnings have proven insufficient to stop such posts, a different approach will be utilized. Any post in this thread that breaks the forum rules or falls into the categories listed above will receive a formal warning.


The above was taken from one of the update threads by the game mods and developers (Thanks JesusFreak for reposting that!!)

They've begun with limited testing, issuing invites to only a few players to test the game out before releasing it to the general public. So if you're really itching to play PT, check both the email account you used for registering for PT, and your messages in the Project Terra Game Forum. They're going to gradually expand the invites over time, little by little, before opening the doors to everyone.

So it sounds like the vast majority of us will have to wait....and wait....
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Update: the game is still in the process of being rebuilt from scratch. It is in closed beta at this time, but from what I gather, it is in a barely half-functional test mode. It is taking quite a while to rebuild, and it will take quite longer still. At this pace, I'm guessing that there's a good chance that it won't be available to the general public until sometime around April or May at the very, very soonest. That's my guess. (Hey, you've got coders trying to re-write an entire computer program from scratch for free, and they're finding it's taking them a lot longer than they originally expected -- much, much longer....)

The game now has a web-site again -- project-terra.com/ -- however, you cannot register to play unless Admin has sent to you an 'invite code.'

Also, the original thread dealing with questions about how soon the game will be back on line that I linked in the OP of this thread -- that has been closed. They got tired of answering peoples' questions on 'how much longer?' New update thread is perma-locked, and can be found here: http://forum.project-terra.com/index.php?/topic/9124-official-beta-information/.

Last update (Dec. 3rd, 2012), is that they got companies functional in closed beta. This is going to be a loooooooooong wait, folks.

Meanwhile, for your entertainment, you may watch this ....
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EDIT: Feb. 21, 2013, and Project Terra is still in closed Beta, administrative staff only, with a long way yet to go. Go back to playing CyberNations for the foreseeable future. Or play Lord of the Rings Online, and hook up with "A Light in the Darkness" kinship on the Dwarrowdelf server. No fun to be had here, move along folks, move along....
Edited by Sheldomar, Feb 21 2013, 10:28 PM.
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Update. May 20, 2013. PT is still invite-only closed beta. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
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