Todays horoscope said dont make announcements and promises you cant stick to... so lets screw the horoscope.
Next Tuesday the old CF server will shut down.
That means I intend to get a new one this Wednesday. Setting up the hardware and OS will take 24-48h. With other words I can start moving stuff to the new server this weekend. Doing all the settings might take a bit longer. Main priority is to get the basic functions running so players can connect to the new server and have at least the basic MP features aswell as the background security features running next week.
There certainly will be further improvements in the upcoming weeks dealing with statistics and such stuff. Right now this has no top priority.
Huor already released a new launcher version with upgraded compatibility and features (you should meanwhile have this update if you played in the past days/weeks).
Once the new CF server is running I will start taking care of the changes to the webserver.
Everything step by step.
The new CF installer is almost complete and passed a few initial tests already.
I still have to update a few info files and am almost certain that I can compile the final version later this week. However, before publishing it it would be nice if some of you could do a few more test runs to ensure that everything is perfectly working. Any guinea pigs.... ehmmm volunteers?
IF all of that stuff above works we would initially have kept the status quo but in a more future proof environment. From the at point we can talk about future improvements and updates.