Damnit Blizzard! (fixed Starcraft issues) --> game anyone

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-05 02:18pm

Is Bnet down for SC or something?

I get an error message saying that I cannot connect to a server and that I may need to manually connect to the internet and then try BW. Which is BS because I never had to before and I use cable not dial up or shit.

Plus, my friend on the other side of the Pacific (SoCal) is getting the same error message! BUT no report from Blizzard and in fact, they were planning on releasing a 1.12 patch soon! I went to Blizzards support for error messages and tried damn near everything short of contacting Blizzard.

Finally, I uninstalled and reinstalled, turned off my firewall for to see if that was it, and yes, I tried US West, East Europe and Asia. None work. Oh but when I reinstalled, yes, the patch downloaded. So Bnet isn't down it's just BW (I haven't checked SC though I doubt that will be any different)

Nothing fixes it and Blizzard hasn't announced it so the problem doesn't even exist!

(if you can understand the bitter sarcasm)

Help needed desperately. Going into SC withdrawl. Suicide now approaching at 1.0000000000000001 times faster than normal.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-02-05 02:32pm

http://www.campaigncreations.org

http://www.samods.org

Get your StarCraft fix fixed, with loads of single-player campaigns!

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-05 03:07pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Get your StarCraft fix fixed, with loads of single-player campaigns!

NOT FUNNY!

Cheek to stock, nose to charging handle, align front and rear sights, achieve a correct sight picture, adjust aim for distance, breathe control, trigger squeeze mother fucker!

God I need sleep. The sun's up soon...

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2005-02-05 11:27pm

You play Starcraft? I'd love to hit you up for a game sometime; assuming Bnet starts working again on your end

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-02-05 11:32pm

I play starcraft too (not as often as I'd like though. wine refuses to work with battlenet, I don't have a windows partition on this comp, and my mom and sister bitch at me when I use the windoze (read family) computer too much).

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-02-05 11:46pm

I just recently bought SC/BW for the third time and started playing again, although I tend to stick to UMS games.

Just attempted to and had no problems logging onto B-net, so I don't know what up on your end.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2005-02-05 11:57pm

Anarchist Bunny wrote:I just recently bought SC/BW for the third time

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-02-06 02:02am

First copy, well it was a combonation of shitty iMac, its burning hot internal temp and crapy slide in CD rom drive tearing my CD to shit, oh and hours of play maybe reaching the 4 digit numbers(a year of playing it like crazy, first online gaming experience, and nothing else to play on the mac)

Second Copy was lent and lost.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-06 02:10am

Damnit, I even reinstalled and ss-s-s-s-shit! Now I have all of these requests for more games and --

AAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Urge to kill, rising....

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-02-06 02:13am

First, Anarchist Bunny = Weird Man of the Hour

Two, Brungardt; do you s-s-ss-speak like that i-in public t-tt-too?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-02-06 02:42am

PFC Brungardt wrote:Damnit, I even reinstalled and ss-s-s-s-shit! Now I have all of these requests for more games and --

AAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Urge to kill, rising....

Hrrrm. Do you have Windows XP SP2? If so, have you remembered to turn of the built in firewall? I had this problem myself now that I think of it. SC wouldn't run even though the nessicary ports were open on my firewall and zone alarm was turned off but then I realized that SP2 has the firewall on by default even when you have another software firewall installed.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-02-06 03:11am

PFC Brungardt wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Get your StarCraft fix fixed, with loads of single-player campaigns!
NOT FUNNY!

What the fuck is your problem? I suggest something you can play in Starcraft, without the need for Battle.net, and you act like I insulted you.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-06 03:19am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
PFC Brungardt wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Get your StarCraft fix fixed, with loads of single-player campaigns!
NOT FUNNY!
What the fuck is your problem? I suggest something you can play in Starcraft, without the need for Battle.net, and you act like I insulted you.

Next time (starting now) I'll add 2 smileys for the sarcastically impaired.

On a serious note though, nothing really compares to multiplayer for me. I've been trying to get a game set up with a friend for a few weeks now.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-06 03:21am

Shinova wrote:First, Anarchist Bunny = Weird Man of the Hour

Two, Brungardt; do you s-s-ss-speak like that i-in public t-tt-too?

Quiet you.

No, though I had a friend who had but then defeated a stutter.

edit:

...

VICTORY!

BULLSHIT DEFEATED. Online once more

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2005-02-06 04:14pm

PFC Brungardt wrote: VICTORY!

BULLSHIT DEFEATED. Online once more

Congrats!

..Now, when would you guys like to play?

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-02-06 04:26pm

PFC Brungardt wrote: VICTORY!

BULLSHIT DEFEATED. Online once more

In Soviet Russia, a winner is YOU!

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-07 01:11am

Badme wrote:
I wrote:snip
Congrats!

..Now, when would you guys like to play?

I'm open all the time in my free time because I sort of just camp out in my room after work. What can I say? It's cold outside! The only issue would be, well, I'm in the Korea / Japan timezone so that would have to be taken in to consideration. I'm a good 14-17 hours ahead of US mainland timezones.

It also sucks that on the weekend I get off work as late as 7 pm over here which is 2 am west coast and 5 am east coast. If the Starcraft people here at SDnet also live in Europe and Asia I suppose it works out a bit better but then everyone has their own schedule issues as well.

My free time is at least 8-12 pm every day but beyond that I'm losing sleep or running in to work.

We'll see. I'm usually online for an IM conversation and spur of the moment game setups.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2005-02-07 01:11pm

PFC Brungardt wrote:
Badme wrote:
I wrote:snip
Congrats!

..Now, when would you guys like to play?
I'm open all the time in my free time because I sort of just camp out in my room after work. What can I say? It's cold outside! The only issue would be, well, I'm in the Korea / Japan timezone so that would have to be taken in to consideration. I'm a good 14-17 hours ahead of US mainland timezones.

It also sucks that on the weekend I get off work as late as 7 pm over here which is 2 am west coast and 5 am east coast. If the Starcraft people here at SDnet also live in Europe and Asia I suppose it works out a bit better but then everyone has their own schedule issues as well. My free time is at least 8-12 pm every day but beyond that I'm losing sleep or running in to work.

We'll see. I'm usually online for an IM conversation and spur of the moment game setups.

Sounds good. What's your AIM?

...You know, that reminds me. I think I have a list of SD.net AIM screen names somewhere, I'll re-add them to my buddy list and try to get everyone together for a game.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-07 05:56pm

Um, lemme sign up for AIM some time later today, all I got is MSN

I'm working on my Microsoft woes, I adopted Mozilla as my browser and picked up a 3rd party word processor on the internet. Maybe I'm stuck with the OS on a laptop but I'm sure there are ways around this too.

When this comes together my Bnet name will be "ArmoredCorps." I only learned after the fact (of creating this pseudonym) that in fact the incomparable General Patton helped train a "I Armored Corps" (that's "first armored corps") in the deserts of California in WWII and was prepared to run the Japanese out of Mexico (a fear at the time was they would land troops there) -- instead the Japs invaded the Aleutians of Alaska.

Neat little history lesson eh? I think it is because I completely and inadvertently created a username suitable to my favorite general of all time

PH34R THE TERRAN ARMOR!

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-07 10:48pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:I also enjoy a good game of StarCraft. If you guys play, drop "Destructionator4" on AIM an IM. Tell me who you are and what channel to join. And original or BroodWar. I can play almost any time on weekdays. On b.net, I am "Destructionator".

You said as much (and more

) in your very detailed but strangely interesting description of your user name origin in OT

HOOAH! Okay, my screen name is "I Armored Corps" (ArmoredCorps was of course taken

*sigh) at AIM.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-07 10:58pm

Okay, this will sound utterly pathetic but oh well.

I've never used AIM before and I'm more or less lost. Is it primarily an IM service? What's with the "PO" - something or other for a mailbox. It isn't also a place to get email? I'm just confused. I don't really care about mail it's just I'm so lost. I pretty much installed it over a lunch break so if someone would be so kind as to IM if they see me on AIM go ahead and square me away. Well, I got a friend back home who's got AIM but he needs sleep and I don't wanna keep him up past 12 am over there (time adjustment crap).

I'm not trying to be lazy I'm just strapped for time at the moment. Oh, if you need it, the address at AIM is "brungardtM119K@aim.com" -- or at least I believe it is.

I'll figure it out...

[sends message and runs to bus stop]

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-02-08 04:52am

POP3. AIM can be set up to read a certain kind of e-mail, and notify you if you have new mail. I don't use that feature myself, so I'm not sure how much utility it has. I'm sticking with a dedicated mail client, myself.

A couple quick tips with AIM:
+To put a carriage-return into your message, use 'shift+enter'; 'enter' just sends the message.

+AIM names are not case-sensitve and ignore spaces, so I can type in "iarmoredcorps" into my buddy list and it will show up initially as "iarmoredcorps," but when you come online and AIM notices that you've set spacing and capitialization, my AIM client will automatically correct itself to "I Armored Corps."

+Go 'Away' when playing a game, and be sure to check the little boxes that say 'hide windows,' and probably also 'disable sounds' in the Away window. If you're lucky, having someone IM you when you haven't gone 'Away' and hidden windows will just have the effect of minimizing your game. Not all games are going to be that happy about it.

+You'll want to play with the Preferences pretty much right away: Turning off that annoying popup on program start, configuring what you want the minimize and X buttons to do, determining whether or not you want AIM to be part of your comp's startup sequence, etc.

Aside: I'm surprised I Armored Corps wasn't taken too. Good job on the name. These days you're lucky to get a random-number-string type SN if the first few characters are something popular, like 'DJ'.

I'd personally suggest an IM program called Xfire instead; for purposes of gaming, at least. You can talk to people in a game from your desktop with it without any more disruption of the game than standard ingame chat, and it has the option to automatically start the application and join the game a friend is playing. Interestingly, it also lists any friend of a friend that's online. I also have a slight preference for the interface. It works with a wide variety of games, including SC and WC3. Unfortunately, that instant-join feature only works with a fraction of the compatible games, mostly FPSs.

AIM is more useful generally because it's the only network you can rely on more than a handful of the people you know to be on already. Just one of those things with natural momentum. Plenty of third-party programs can also connect to that network, and offer some additional services, but the basic AIM client is certainly good enough.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-08 05:37am

Wilco

and thx.