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I don't believe a time as been set yet, I would suggest watching this thread and the Virtue forums as there will be other items happening leading up to the main event.

I do, though it rarely gets posted to.

Glad you got it fixed!

That's not bad for just using paint!

If you're interested in trying out illustration there are a couple free illustrator style programs that will let you do vector art like what I'm doing in illustrator. I've never used them though so I can't really speak to how good they may be.

http://inkscape.org/
http://www.serif.com/free-graphic-de...MC=FSSDRAWPLUS

I have a tablet but I prefer to do my vector work by mouse, so you definitely don't need any special tools to do this.


That's what I've been trying to go for, which is a bit of a challenge when also trying to keep them as simple as possible.

That makes two of us.

The move does seem to have fixed the connectivity issues that were plaguing the server. Time will tell if this is a long term fix.

Hey Echo,

I know the host is moving to a new data center because of connectivity issues, but I'm not sure if that is the problem here. But there are a few things you can try to diagnose it.

First try loading: http://www.ransim.com/ from home. You should get a simple page that says Web Site's Default Page. If that pages loads then you can connect to the server, but not UHVU.

If that page still does not load, then its possibly some weird DNS issue.

Open your command prompt, in windows click start then type CMD. It'll load the normal black command prompt.

Type:

Ping www.virtueverse.net

See if that resolves. If that fails then try:

ping 66.187.109.7

If that succeeds and the first one did not then you have a DNS issue. It could be that your DNS server, provided generally by your internet provider, isn't updating. You can try to resolve this by changing your DNS providers to another provider. Google Public DNS and OpenDNS are both options and are free.

If that fails as well then there is a routing issue and its likely host based and not something that's easy to fix. I would wait until Sunday or Monday and see if the physical move happening Friday resolves the issue.

For now I'm only doing this for SG members, and I have a pretty huge list to get through.

After I get further through the list I might be down for doing these are trades with people as long as the character someone wanted done was interesting/feasible to do.

Never saw it, but again I don't really post here all that often.

Where they CoH characters or were they the ones blo0p did of the popular characters?

Its probably still a SQL query.

But it isn't just a simple SQL query. As a web developer who has some massive systems integration I really wish it was as simple as pull data in read mode from x. TADA.

The reality is its more like:

Read data from X
Read more data from Y using data from X.
Process data from X and Y against Z to output A.
Output A and write to B.

And that's just on the dev side, that's not counting any hardware or networking challenges that might exist or security issues between the systems and opening connections.

What was the URL?

The old url, the .com one, should still forward along.

I can take a look and fix it if need be.