Tonight I couldn't connect to Play.empireMinecraft.com as the server address. I have always used that address and it's worked fine until now. I was just wondering if it is no longer a supported IP.
there was a play.empireminecraft.com? I usually do main.empireminecraft.com or do the shortened ones now
It may have something to do with the ip changes *around the website*, maybe Justin didn't renew it or the DNS just didn't work fine for it.
It's the first (old) EMC url address from which you could connect to the one and only server EMC had in the past
The first address was play.empireminecraft.com. It then got changed to main.empireminecraft.com (both still worked) when smp2 was launched. Shortly thereafter all servers received the smpx prefix (with the obvious exception of utopia) and the two aforementioned addresses were phased out. At some point during my absence they added the shorthand empire.us, but I choose to stick with the old school addresses.