Poll: Gamesurge or Shadowfire

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:52 pm

I vote shadowfire.

why? a few reasons.

Gamesurge netsplits, times out and is usually not accessible to me sometimes.

Shadowfire has always been there. I'm always able to connect to it no matter what.

Do_Checkor · Post by **Do_Checkor** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:01 pm

I suggested the idea to make the same poll on Planetdescent.com a few weeks ago but they didn't do it...

oh and: at the moment I am / others are unable to connect to Gamesurge (AGAIN)...

[NT]kevin · Post by **[NT]kevin** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:02 pm

shadowfire was perfect! never gone out, never been booted, and we dont have that chatbot that spys on what we do (ChanServ or whatever) it rox! im actually deciding on if its better than PXO when it was up...

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:06 pm

No vote. Haven't used Shadowfire much. Gamesurge was fine til a couple days ago.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:38 pm

I'm the exact opposite of you guys. I can barely ever get onto Shadowfire, but Gamesurge has always been fine for me.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:50 pm

try us.shadowfire.org Topgun and tell me if that works.

weed/hopper · Post by **weed/hopper** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:11 pm

Although i have used Shadowfire first since the demise of PXO, i use Gamesurge now as well .... however i have had difficulty several times logging in to Gamesurge. In addition i do not like the chat interface of Kali as well as Gamesurge while Shadowfire has remained and is always accessible .... i'm glad their both here, but i prefer Shadowfire

The_Weed

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:48 pm

Is the DNS crapped out again?

Oh and for the record I've never had problems connecting to GameSurge, but have often had problems with ShadowFire.

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:57 pm

(12:49 AM) <[NT]Suncho> Is the gamesurge network having DNS problems lately?
(12:49 AM) <[NT]Suncho> I know a lot of people can't connect
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> Welcome to #support. I am you're assigned helper, Nutter. How can I help you?
(12:53 AM) <[NT]Suncho> hi
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> yes
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> we
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> are
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> sec, will get an IP you can connect to
(12:53 AM) <[NT]Suncho> know when it'll be resolved?
(12:53 AM) <[NT]Suncho> ok
(12:53 AM) <Nutter> I think it has been resolved
(12:53 AM) <[NT]Suncho> ok
(12:54 AM) <[NT]Suncho> kewl
(12:54 AM) <Nutter> but the changes take a few days to propagate aroudn the web
(12:54 AM) <[NT]Suncho> what caused it?
(12:54 AM) <Nutter> DDoS attack against all our DNS servers
(12:54 AM) <Nutter> Connect to 216.179.62.106 port 6667
(12:54 AM) <[NT]Suncho> ah, that sucks
(12:54 AM) <[NT]Suncho> thankye
(12:54 AM) <Nutter> that should work for any of your friends who cant connect
(12:54 AM) <Nutter> np

EDIT: I've updated http://www.suncho.com/chat to connect using the ip address if the first connect fails.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:46 am

Never had a problem with gamesurge yet.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:16 pm

weed/hopper wrote:In addition i do not like the chat interface of Kali as well as Gamesurge while Shadowfire has remained and is always accessible

you don't like the chat interface of kali or gamesurge but shadowfire's is good?

what? tell me i'm misunderstanding your grammar.

gamesurge and shadowfire's chat interface are the same. the only thing affecting either is what program you use to chat on them.

on topic, i voted gamesurge simply becuase its where every other community for every other modern game is. why should i have to inconvienence myself by switching back and forth between the two when i want to chat with my quake friends, descent friends, halo friends, ut friends, etc when all of them but one is on the same network? why not just use the descent3 room that is on the same network? i'm not gonna go through the hassle of configuring a bunch of sh1t to have gamesurge and shadowfire running at the same time for some elitist bastards who think they are too good for gamesurge. things like that have bee this communities problem since the beginning. if some people never go to gamesurge, then i guess i'll never see them again. not much more i can say but that.

as far as the networks go, i don't care which one is used other than because of the reasons above. neither network has any problems, its all user error if you cant connect to them. gamesurge hasn't failed in years, it has tons of servers to use if one of them goes down. never have they all been down at the same time. not since it was gamesnet back in the days of doom, descent 1 and duke nukem. if you can't get on it, you aren't doing something right. if you are using the webchat, maybe diddy coded something wrong. whatever is the reason, it is not gamesurge's fault. they are the biggest gaming network in the world for a reason. i imagine shadowfire is the same, although i'm not experienced enough with it to comment on it.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:43 pm

kur: it was a vote of which network has been the most reliable

not what one you like.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:46 pm

gamesurge is the most reliable. like i said, if you read, was if you can't get to gamesurge it is user error. i have never ever had a problem with it. if one of the gamesurge servers goes down they have thousands of others that automatically take its place. all of them won't go down at once.

IsAB · Post by **IsAB** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:45 pm

Kur, have you read suncho's chat log with gamesurge support? its only 5 posts up

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:32 pm

funny, i idle on gamesurge 24/7 and it hasn't ever booted me. when one server fails, try the next on the list. simple concept.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:36 am

I haven't been on Shadowfire for a few months (The wrong people have op status there). I've never not been able to connect to Gamesurge.

Chanserv is not a spybot.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:09 am

no one's an op on shadowfire anymore.

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:08 pm

i vote shadowfire. i didnt really see a reason why there was even a gamesurge d3 channel when shadowfire was there

Suncho · Post by **Suncho** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:13 pm

Javed: it was a vote of which network has been the most reliable

not what one you like

For me, I've never had problems connecting to GameSurge and I have had problems connecting to ShadowFire so I vote for GameSurge.

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:29 pm

Suncho wrote:Javed: it was a vote of which network has been the most reliable

not what one you like.

I shoulda read that more carefully. my bad. but my vote still goes for shadowfire. i'm not sure if its my irc app, but sometimes i cant connect to gamesurge. and if i DO connect, it would be after 8 seconds to be exact.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:32 am

I have no probs connecting to either with my IRC app(ircle os 10) only issuesis have 2b connected to one or the other and not both. But that's ok, cuz I'm usually at gamesurge rookie channel now.
Fus

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:58 pm

I love rounding errors don't you?

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:10 pm

I guess we now can consider that vote to have a 5-10% margin of error, if not more.

Why? because some people have been confusing 'what they like' with 'reliability'

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:00 pm

Or reliably what they like.

Poll: Gamesurge or Shadowfire

What has been the most reliable?

Poll: Gamesurge or Shadowfire

Gamesurge vs Shadowfire

Re: Gamesurge vs Shadowfire