WanderingAries

Just curious, but how many Trollers and/or MM's are on your teams? ;-)

Obviously it's still down, but can we atleast get a confirmation that it's possibly related to Test being locked or perhaps the recovery of the tool being timed with the unlocking of Test?

*jaw drops, runs away screaming*

So yeah you'll likely have a bunch of unknown globals too depending on who's on your gfriend's list, etc as people have been using their freeby change token as they slowely return to the game.

Got drunk and fell into the french quarter (server) again did we?

It probably has something to do with whatever language/code/etc that they're using for transfers. My main has an apostrophe. I went away for almost a year, came back and noticed that they'd done some sort of renaming thing so I had to correct the name, but if I looked at the character data it still shows a screwed up name.

It's something like this:

In many languages this character // is treated as a commenting bracket. So if I wanted to display a single /, then I had to do something like this ///. It's been a while so that may not be exactly right, but it's close enough to prove the point. Basically if they let the character stay in the name during the xfer, then something BAD would likely happen like say the character file gets corrupted and you lose it all together.

From a coding perspective...here's my Metaphore :-p

The porter functions by plugging in the destination. It does its job nomatter what key you put in the hole so long as it's coded correctly (IE: destination exists). If the destination key is coded improperly, then the porter will simply respond to the system that there's an error and maybe then to the user. Simply put, the arcane 'key' is still coded for the old destination, thus preventing the porter from performing it's function. The fundamental change needs to be performed on the arcane 'key'.

Once I learned of the porter issue, then it dawned on me that the other base issue could be related as well so hopefully they'll solve them together (and repair the damage >.<).

Honestly when I first heard about this bug (and hadn't known about the Ouro GC) I thought people were getting sent to the new tutorial via the tech porter.

From FB:

the upgrades may be cheaper, but not everybody can run Snow Leopard. I didn't purchase it for that reason, but my PPC is stuck at the OS9/Leopard dual boot. that said, all this means is that should the game need to be modified to retain com...patibility with Snow leopard in such a way that it becomes no longer compatible with leopard, then a major upgrade would be in order on the user's part. Since apple has chosen the intel path, then I highly doubt that there is going to be a point (soon) that the game will become totally incompatible.

"Scotty, have you Always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?"