Technical problems

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Technical problems

Listed below are various technical issues reported by users during the Iris campaign. This is a note for reference for players and improvement (for the puppetmaster team?).


(include other past issues here)

Server 04
  1. The server status page discovered a while back that's used to inform about the locked/unlocked status of the 5 server began reporting that Server 4 was pending, and 0/100 keys had been found.
  2. Hot on the new trail, players scoured for anything and everything that could be considered a clue to the new BPC location
  3. IP scanning revealed that 206.16.223.76 now contained available content called "Artifact Location"
  4. Inconsistently, the server status page returned ASP.net server errors, as well as the standard Windows Live login location that previous Servers had used.
  5. Players hacked the flash code on the Artifact Location page to find the required password. The result was the password: BOOMERANG
  6. THEN a new post on Jonas' book's Amazon page by Thomas Sanatos indicated the next step to finding the BPC page.
  7. Steps proceeded seemingly as expected to arrive at the BPC page. However, the ASP server errors had not ended.
  8. Many users who had arrived at the BPC page ended up at a dead end after receiving a key, since the Live ID login process occurs after that point. Repeated attempts to login failed due to the server error
  9. It was unknown that simply closing the browser and re-opening it would correct the problem. By that it was too late, for sufficient other users who did not receive the error were able to enter their keys first. This obviously upset a large number of players who felt they were 'shafted', because they would have been succesfully among the first 100 had there been no server error.
  • Also note that due to this issue as a whole, the 206.16.223.76 website was found prematurely - the password for the flash was intended to be found through the server 4 content, not via hacking the flash. The intended determination of the IP address is unknown at this point.
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