You could always set up an automated message a week before or something that will appear every so often telling them the new IP address, that will at least catch the eye of most regulars who you may not have any direct means of communicating with.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">NewLight Systems</b> <<a href="mailto:nls@newlightsystems.com">nls@newlightsystems.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>There's no choice, all IP's would change.<br><br>If the people enter the server by dns, it's easy, but everyone enters by IP</div>
<div><span class="e" id="q_10cd09af2a4b3ea6_1"><br><br><br>At 22:31 02/08/2006, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="http://" type="cite">Hey all,<br><br>We have a relatively succesful COD2 server and might need to move to a new<br>server within our DataCenter - which unfortunately would mean a new IP<br>address.<br><br>
Obviously, I want to avoid disrupting the flow of players to the server as<br>much as possible. Are players 'favorites' servers that are IP-based or<br>name-based? Anyway to deal with this? Forwarders?<br><br>In the past, changing a popular servers IP was a big mistake since people
<br>had to relocate the server based on its new IP. Is thsi still a big issue?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Luke<br><br>---<br>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cod-unsubscribe@icculus.org" target="_blank">
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