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Mr President
12-28-2008, 00:28
Prior to the start of next round i will be clearing all the states from the db. If you are a prem member, this means you will have to create a new state again when you log in.


Right now we have a lot of states that no longer play but keep getting loaded back in the system. This will take care of the problem.

The main reason for this is to give me a better idea on how many "active" members we have. During this first year of NW, a lot of garbage has collected. We need to clear it out.

ALSO,

During the afternoon tomorrow the game and forums will be offline. Our forums are in desperate needs of a total upgrade. Our current version is no longer supported and many bugs have been popping up. I have been pushing it off long enough.

I am hoping for a fully smooth upgrade where we don't lose anything. (bookie,casino, credits ect ect) but you never know. I will run full backups of everything incase something does happen i have logs to go back through and fix things.. But that can take awhile.

So if you try to log on and see the game and forums are down, please give it some time and they will be back up as soon as i can get them.

thanks

Divine Intervention
12-28-2008, 00:35
excellent! ive long been calling to clear out those inactive states! what do you mean by correct email address though? surely u need correct one to register (dont we have to click some link when we register to verify email?) or do you mean something else? sorry its late and im tired :blush:

Mr President
12-28-2008, 00:39
When NW first started there was no activation link sent. So ppl could use fake ones. Plus there are times when they use a correct one to sign up, get the activation code and then once they are in, change there email address to a fake one.

This clear out will also mean that nations WILL NOT BE AUTO created next set. So you will need to make your nations again.

If anyone steals someone elses tag, i will manually change it back. So please don't even waste the time trying. This is a needed clearing out process that needs to take place. So please do not take advantage of it.

Mr President
12-28-2008, 00:45
also, i have added a little extra touch to the end of round emails. They now include a lot more information instead of just rank.

Sadly not all of you will receive this due to our "limited" amount of emails that can be sent from the server, but most should get one. Our current package only allows a small number of emails to be sent. whenever we can be on a dedicated server, then we can send as many as we want.. But we are a ways off from being on a dedicated server..

Divine Intervention
12-28-2008, 00:45
hmmm so will we be sent a link we have to reply to or something? also..any estimation on how long after this set ends till we can make new states? i want to get a low # :D

Mr President
12-28-2008, 00:52
I took out the email part cause i didn't say it right. Nobody needs to make a new forum account, which is where you need to add your email address too, all you will have to do is make a new state. Which doesn't require a email address.

What i was trying to say was, anyone who has put in a fake email address on there forums account will have there states disabled until they do. So you all need to get your email addresses up to date cause during 2009 if an email i send you bounces back cause it's a fake one, then your state will be disabled.

Mr President
12-28-2008, 00:53
hmmm so will we be sent a link we have to reply to or something? also..any estimation on how long after this set ends till we can make new states? i want to get a low # :D


I am hoping the upgrade will only take a couple of hours.. So by Sunday night the game will be reset and able to accept members.

Divine Intervention
12-28-2008, 00:55
whos night :D? GMT night or EST night :P? mm okay thank you for clearing up the email bit. just i dont really know how this bouncing thing works but i signed up using my real email so i guess i dont need to do anything.

Mr President
12-28-2008, 16:27
Upgrade of game and server went smoothly. Both are back up and running.

If you discover any errors please report them as soon as you can.

thanks

Mr President
12-28-2008, 16:31
also, the new end of round emails had a little issue.. basically the only part of the emails that were correct were the ranks.. So please ignore the rest of it. This issue will be taken care of for the end of this current set..

sorry :(

DBozMen
12-28-2008, 16:34
also, the new end of round emails had a little issue.. basically the only part of the emails that were correct were the ranks.. So please ignore the rest of it. This issue will be taken care of for the end of this current set..

sorry :(

::oops: happens to the best of us!

anyway nice going on the upgrades!

Mr President
12-28-2008, 17:11
Template updates will need to be done as well. I was hoping i wouldn't need to make them, but there are to many for this new version of VB..

The only update that will require the forums to be down is our credit system. Seeing everything runs off that.

The rest of them don't require the forums to be down.

Anyway, i will work on these later on tonight. So you may see the forums down again for a little while. Better to get this all done now while the game is just starting instead of mid set :)

Bram Gotink
12-29-2008, 06:09
I notice you can tag threads now...


Nice going, Mr P
I was wondering why my state name was suddenly USA in the e-mail lol now I know

Mr President
12-29-2008, 22:40
All upgrades have been completed. This includes template upgrades as well. So that means the forums won't have to be taken offline again.. (unless errors start popping up)

Our Credit system was upgraded to the newest version along with the actual forums. And some other programs have been added in for various reasons.

Everyone should read the game news in the game. That is where you will find current information about what changes have been made and so on. So please remember to check it often.

Also, not sure if any of you know this or not, but the blue theme for the forums are 90% done. I still need to get the buttons and some other small pics done for it, but all in all i think it looks cool. Plus it matches the theme of the game. Once i have it all completed then the blue theme will become the default theme.

again, if you encounter and error please let me know..

thanks :)

Mr President
12-29-2008, 22:44
Also, now that the game has been cleared out and we are getting an accurate member count, it's pretty scary.. At the moment we only have about 100 active states.. I am sure about 40 more will be rejoining soon as we get closer to the start, but still 140 active states is not good.. So please do all you can to get new members. Talk about the game to your friends and do what ever you have to do to help gain more members.

The more the better. :)