Have Blind Faith in Nost

[Midoriko 2]

I would like to say its hard but lets all have as much blind faith in Nost & Elysium as we can.  I know... the Nost forums are down, the token generator is broken, we've had only silence.

I know its a hard thing to ask but lets try to keep faith; It took 280k Signatures to get the petition on change.org, so I doubt they would stop the transfer with only 80k accounts (assuming its 1 player per 1 account) and I doubt Nost would abandon 2/3 of the community for 1/3 to have an unfair raiding and pvp ranking advantage.

I've been absolutely dying to play but I will hold out, and I won't stop believing they will do something but are dealing with unforeseen obstacles.

[Mimma 10]

This is Elysium - not Nostalrius.

You will have to ask Nostalrius why the tokens aren't working - Elysium can't do anything.

[Faith 5]

Just believe in Faith :D

[cybaster 31]

It does look like an awful lot like the Nost end of things has abandoned their end of the project.  If they were simply on holiday there would have been at least one "hey, hold tight, I'll fix it in a week or two".

Supposedly the new Elysium staff took in parts of the Nostalrius team, but it clearly wasn't anyone with access to or the ability to fix the problem.

I'd hazard an educated guess that the people actually capable of fixing the problem/have access to the databases themselves are extremely few in number.  Possibly even one or two people.  And it very much looks like they no longer give a shit.

This is extremely bad for the longevity of classic WoW projects, as the ability for people to get their characters back after a takedown is essential to proving to Blizzard that they have to tolerate this community (or produce classic servers of their own). 

Whoever you Nost boys are, your work isn't done.  If you quit now you're abandoning your own mission statement.

[noob257 36]

7 minutes ago, cybaster said:

as the ability for people to get their characters back after a takedown is essential to proving to Blizzard that they have to tolerate this community (or produce classic servers of their own).

This!

[Psychedelich 0]

I personally doubt i will be coming back if that's all she wrote.

I'm not motivated enough for that grind again and again.

I have a career, wife and kids now.  I was lucky I made time to do it once

[Mimma 10]

I'd hazard an educated guess that the people actually capable of fixing the problem/have access to the databases themselves

That is the problem: Elysium does NOT have access to the database - because they don't have it.

Elysium have a (probably encrypted) version of an extract from the database, holding data for all characters. They can only access this using the tokens, which you must generate on Nostalrius.

If a token doesn't match, then Elysium cannot fetch data - and if token generation fail, Elysium can't do anything.

[Midoriko 2]

Well, food for thought is that addons were created so players could make things blizzard hasn't, and players have always been diligent with addons that report their characters to database websites.

Its a far fetched idea, but a lot of people were using the addon that reported their characters to http://Realmplayers.com

Its an optional existing database, depending on their credibility and security, perhaps they could be brought in as a 3rd party for assistance in some way of at least proving the character exists but not whom owns it - which will still doesn't solve the problem though.

Edited January 3, 2017 by Midoriko
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