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Apparently, with the move to the new servers the bug report and contact forms are broken--they act like they're working, but I'm not getting the emails. Also, the verification image on the forums is broken, too. Naturally, it takes a while to realize that not getting email is itself a bug. I'll be w...

Hm. Sorry about that. A teensey tiny little oversight in the rollover script left the game flagged as still being in rollover. On top of that, apparently the contact form from the home page is broken with the move to the new server, so I didn't get any email alerts that the game was done. So I didn'...

Sorry, forgot to mention, I moved rollover up an hour with the new servers. So it's now at 11:10 Eastern time. That fits a little better with my schedule -- I'm actually alert to fix things if something goes wrong. Today's rollover happened a little late because the script malfunctioned, but I've go...

I think there's a good chance with the server change it messed up some of the timekeeping. I don't quite understand it, but I'll fix it soon.

Is it better then if you have to retype the name of a person if you're casting a couple of buffs on them? I was kind of following KoL's lead in this area, and assumed there was some consensus that remembering the last person was beneficial.

I think I just found the problem. Let me know if it starts working.

Testing. Just want to see if this works.

Jesus wrote:Yeah, like plotting to steal Ryme's solid gold car of undetermined make and model before he even gets it.

Platinum. Always platinum. It's more heroic. And I like to one-up people.

Porsche for the alliterative win?

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Hey, Ryojo. I keep getting messages bounced to me because it says your mailbox is full. You might want to double-check your email address and your email quota. And maybe stop subscribing to threads until you've got it fixed--I'm getting a surprising number of messages.

Actually, it's not that sidekicks aren't a priority, it's that I definitely won't be implementing them in the same sense that KoL familiars work. With the gloves, boots, always present shirts, and the talisman slot, we've already got more equipment than KoL. Throw in computers and some transportatio...

Quite frankly, you aren't going to solve 500 and database errors on (what I assume is) a bog-standard cheap shared web host. You don't have the control over the environment that you need. Actually, I'm already on a dedicated server. A low end one, but yeah. Ajax for the character pane is interestin...

I think a lot of the auctions that actually went to the end of the auction weren't dispensing the chips and items at the end. I ran the script manually a few hours ago, and in theory it should have let all the auction winners get their stuff, and all the sellers get their chips, just belatedly. Can ...

I think this is where I step in and say "all right already." Both sides are pretty clear, and I can see that either perspective has advantages and disadvantages. However: 1) The current option already exists and works reasonably well 2) Picking the other option would be much more of a pain...

Sorry to say this, but I think I'm just going to put the game on pause tonight after rollover until I can get the new servers going. I received 150 bug reports today, of which all but a handful were directly related to the lag, and the 500 errors are getting ridiculous. The longer I let this go, the...

Yeah, Smoot's and Istari's are actual quotes. The art of a good fake is to make use of as much reality as possible. Everyone else I just picked on at random, and figured they wouldn't complain so much. Don't anybody hate on either of them about it, though. They were both being reasonable in their ow...

I think the site's been down for most of the day. Just got through to tech support who restarted the web server app, and things are back up. I'll have to keep an eye on it, I guess. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I don't know. I heard you also created some kind of popular game or something. I may be mistaking you with someone else, though. Nah, I think you're confusing me with that Jick guy again. Just because we're the same age and look vaguely alike and have never been seen in the same place ... just igno...

If I get or think up anything else, sure. This also makes me think, in certain ways all of us have super talents. Most of them aren't quite heroic, or aren't perceived as such, but each and every one of us can do something (or several somethings) astoundingly well. Verily, I was born to write fake t...

Yep, that's the policy for now. Once we have spoiler-safe areas, like a newbie channel, etc., I'll lift the restriction a little. But unless someone goes out of their way to find a spoiler site, I'd rather not have temptation thrown at them if they're having fun and just looking for a hint.

The real reason for this change being to eliminate the meta-gamey aspects of rentals as they stand now. I'm not really sure I follow this particular aspect of the argument. Rollover is always taking you from one morning morning to the next evening, and there's all kinds of real-life rental places t...

Servers have been ordered. It will probably take at least a couple of days for them to get here, and then there will be some setup and testing time. Still, help is in sight. Thanks, everyone, for your patience. Hold on tight for a couple of days and then we'll see if we can't put the lag beast back ...

Dreamhost has a disclaimer on their site saying dedicated hosting isn't their thing, referring people to hosting.com instead -- that's what led me to hosting.com in the first place. It's a shame, though, because I've heard good things about dreamhost, too.

However, this still means I was using a large percentage of my available resources just to gain a level. I'd suggest trying to fix the chip requirement at a lower average percentage of a character's resources . I hear ya. I really do. However, right now the average percentage of a character's resou...

I may be making some progress with hosting.com - they've got some easily upgradeable intermediate options that seem good, but liquidweb also looks interesting, so I'll give them a call, too.

Thanks for the recommendations, folks. I think I've got enough to go on now.

Good point about the turn, Dr. W.

And it's probably inevitable that I'll slip up a little on the gender now and then. I try to be neutral or provide specific variants, but it's tough not to reflexively assume your own now and then.

It's kind of an oversight that the hospital doesn't perform the stitches. Besides time there is one other way to treat them right now, but the hospital will in the future. Not a bug so much, just unimplemented.

Other known problems: 1) Database/mysql errors. These are happening nearly as often as the 500 errors, and I think they're caused by the same thing. I'm fairly sure the game isn't broken, just overloaded. Please don't report them for now. 2) Chronology problems with the journal and quests. They were...

What Cristiona says is almost exactly what I was going to say. I'm definitely listening to these things and do want to make sure that the balance is good. I want you to have to make choices about how to spend your budget, but I don't want you to be destitute, so I'm cautiously trying to land somewhe...

Just figured I'd ask if anyone knows a good web host that can handle managed dedicated servers. I'm talking to a couple of places right now, but it never hurts to have a good reference. I'm talking to 1and1.com (my current host) and hosting.com, plus I've got feelers out at one or two other places. ...

Good news and bad news. The good news is a whole ton of yesterday's email came through sometime last night, meaning it wasn't lost, just slowed down. So I will get bug reports and forum subscriptions eventually. The bad news is those things are all likely to be pretty slow to arrive for the next few...

I woke up this morning to find out that my game exploded, in a good way. Then I went to work and watched it explode even more. That's a pretty impressive day. There's going to be a lot of scrambling for days or weeks to come, but it's also encouraging. Putting together Twilight has been by far the m...

I dunno. Could be, though that sounds fishy because it's not just some email, it's EVERY email since about 9 a.m. that was generated by a form. (Donation confirmations from PayPal and regular email work just fine.) I sent in a support request. And as mentioned elsewhere I'm looking at more/better se...

Sometime this morning I stopped receiving bug reports and messages from the forums when people sign up. Both of these are automated email senders, so I'm not quite sure what's going on, but right now it acts like email is being sent but it isn't. I'm looking into this. I think something like this ha...

Sorry, that was supposed to say the Help and Hints section of the forum is spoiler free. The rest of the forums are okay -- so the wiki thread in gameplay discussion is fine.

Yeah, as far as I can tell, even with the lag, I haven't heard of one person not enjoying the game. Also, ryme, what's your policy on linking to the wiki in chat or forums? I don't think that it is mentioned in the FAQ. On the forums: help and hints should remain spoiler free. Mentioning the wiki t...

Uh, make that nearly 1500 accounts. That's 200 in the last two hours. Crazy. TheK3vin, I will indeed have mods, both for chat and the forums. Didn't realize it would get this crazy this fast. I appreciate your asking, but per the FAQ, we have a strict policy of discouraging requests/offers to be mod...

Neocamp speaks rightly. I'm aware there's lag, and I'll look into doing something as soon as I can. Yesterday morning the game had roughly 350 accounts, of which maybe 100 were active. Last time I checked, we were nearly at 1300 accounts and counting. I'll be looking into seeing how to speed things ...

To clarify: Elementals the class work their magic with the four elements of classical tradition: earth, air, fire, and water. In the game, there are many different things that can hurt you as part of enemy attacks, or which you might deal to enemies as part of your own attacks. These things are pure...

Cristiona wrote:And it should keep working as long as Wok items continue to be priced in silver stars.

In case anyone's worried, or it makes a difference, I just want to affirm that Wok items will always be priced in Silver Stars.

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