Guest PondScum Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Just preparing for the night of the refresh monkeys, and I noticed that the download is scheduled to be announced at http://www.battlefront.com/news.html. Now, that's a pretty heavyweight page. If we all sit refreshing it every half an hour/minute/whatever, that's a lot of bandwidth, and a lot of stress on the server. So... how about making up a VERY lightweight page just to show this Sunday? No gifs, very little text, something as simple as "No, the CMBB demo isn't here yet. If you're looking for our other news, go here" (with a link to a renamed copy of news.html). Then when you're set to go, replace it with "Yes you crazed monkeys, click here for the demo". And then on Monday when the rush is over go back to the regular news page? I just have the best interests of your servers at heart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Why not directly go to the downloads page: BFC download page ? I'm sure the demo will appear there. [ August 30, 2002, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: ParaBellum ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Originally posted by PondScum: Just preparing for the night of the refresh monkeys, and I noticed that the download is scheduled to be announced at http://www.battlefront.com/news.html.They may already be doing that. I tried ot open that page and got the "The page cannot be found" error. Oooohhhh! They're getting everything ready for us! w00t! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 <snip> [ August 30, 2002, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: MrSpkr ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsmith Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Gee they are also accepting Pre-orders of TacOps 4 too On the same Weekend that the CM:BB Demo is to be Realeased Do you think BFC/BTS would do this if there was ANY Question about the Robustness of their Servers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 You only reload twice an hour? Anyway, just switch images off and/or select the frame in the page you need and open it in its own window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PondScum Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Originally posted by redwolf: You only reload twice an hour?Actually, I've been wondering about the optimal schedule to allow me to get other stuff done on Sunday... Anyway, just switch images off and/or select the frame in the page you need and open it in its own window.Sadly, this doesn't help their servers much if only I do it! A lightweight page would make sure everyone fetched just the bare minimum. (And I wonder how many refresh monkeys will choose the download page rather than the news page? Did BTS/BFC keep their server logs from the last meltdown? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patgod Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 ftp://ftp.battlefront.com/pub/demos/ thats what i will be refreshing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiggles Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 Get Mozilla. You can program it to refresh your bookmarks at regular intervals (eg. once per minute), then play silly noises when the page changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treeburst155 Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 There it is, the automated refresh program that will keep BFC down for days. I knew it would happen. Treeburst155 out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Originally posted by Patgod: ftp://ftp.battlefront.com/pub/demos/ thats what i will be refreshing.yup thats where all the other demos are now -tom w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Harrison Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Originally posted by Patgod: ftp://ftp.battlefront.com/pub/demos/ thats what i will be refreshing.Thanks for the link, I have already began practicing the 'refresh' on the page. Any bets on when it will be up and ready? I am 3 hours behind, so if its at 10am, then it will be 7am here!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Wow, I post a joke thread, and BTS locked me up in like 120 seconds!!! Man, they're fast!!!!!!! :eek: THE DEMO IS UP!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Amateur. Let a pro show you how it's REALLY done... http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=023677 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Originally posted by Captain Wacky: Amateur. Let a pro show you how it's REALLY done... Hey, and I was you first sucker too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 You certainly lived up to your handle on that one, VJ. You do know what bad jesters get in the end, don't you? Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Originally posted by Michael emrys: You certainly lived up to your handle on that one, VJ. You do know what bad jesters get in the end, don't you? Force choked by either Vader or Saron, or shot by SS guards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 31, 2002 Share Posted August 31, 2002 Originally posted by Vader's Jester: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael emrys: You certainly lived up to your handle on that one, VJ. You do know what bad jesters get in the end, don't you? Force choked by either Vader or Saron, or shot by SS guards? </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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