Because ot the news calm, here for you two very much useful tools, whitch one to be in great demand.
Feuersturm and his crew released #85 of their comics about ET.
Quelle: Just Pub-Website
Rudi Visser has developed a Proxytool for the ET serverlist - As all ET Players have probably figured out by now, id Software have turned off their master server for unknown reasons. This basically means that there are no server listings available at all for the time being. Nobody knows when they will turn it back on, if at all.
Thankfully the community came to the rescue, with Paul creating a backup master server. However, his solution requires the user to either use custom ET.exe files, or modify their hosts file.
What I have done is made a service that will proxy requests through to the appopriate master server. Rather than having to modify your hosts file or replace another file, simply download the installer and run it. It's always going to select the correct server, so if id software's master server comes back online, it will connect to that, otherwise it will use Paul's.
I will make it switch between them also, so we have a highly redundant network without the need for modifying ET files or providing a PK3.
Instructions: needs NET Framework 3.0 , download file, run and play!
Quelle: rudi.visser | thx to etpro.de