Tactic #1: Know your game server(s)!

Here’s the first post in a (hopefully) ongoing series of hints and tips…

What do you do if the game server doesn’t appear to be working? You try to browse to IOResort.com and your web browser times out or gives you some type of error message.

Unless the server has completely died or the hosting ISP has gone out of business, there’s a good chance it’s only a minor problem with DNS or a rogue process on the server.

That’s where this handy table comes into play… it’s got all the info that a player needs to access the games directly! 😀

Game	Server	IP Address	Http		Telnet		Client
TLR	ioresort.com	69.55.229.31	80		23		666
TLF	ioresort.com	69.55.229.31	1880		1823		1866
ST	ioresort.com	69.55.229.31	N/A		9999		N/A
ELF	starshiptraders.net	207.191.194.245	1080		23		N/A

Note: The problem this past weekend on ioresort.com only affected the TLR game… TLF & ST were still up and running, you just needed to remember what ports they use!
Note: I’m unable to confirm the ELF information as I still seem to be banned/blocked… 😛