PBW Down? - Back up!

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Gyphon:
Okay, getting back on topic here.

I would like to send a message out to all those who have been holding up games all this time in hopes that PBW will be up soon. Guess what? It's not gonna happen that quickly. If they've been down this long they are likely to be down alot longer. .

It's hard for me to argue this point effectively. I have to say that Tuesday will tell the tale. According to the DSL people they have checked everything everywhere. If the meeting between the DSL tech and phone company tech on Tuesday does not bear fruit I have no idea what the next step in the process will be.

Originally posted by Gyphon:

The game admins can run the turns for everyone. What's the big deal? Are your fingers so lethargic that you cannot go through the extra effort of sending an email? This is a friendly plea to STOP HOLDING UP THE GAMES!

Geez, we all did fine without PBW before they existed and I can't believe that we can't play a game without them now that they have a long standing problem..

If there is anyone out there that wishes to play there game PBEM and the owner is not willing to do so, let me know. I will offer to take the game over and run the turns myself. Either myself or someone else. If we have a group of players wanting to go and the only thinkg holding them up is a game owner, we can find a new game owner.

Originally posted by Gyphon:

BTW, has it occured to anyone that they may be re-developing the entire system? They have had these issues a few times before.

Actually this is the first extended DSL outage we have had. We've never been down longer then a day before for connection problems. The previous extended outages in PBW were due to hardware failures on our end.

I am not really sure what you are trying to say here. We area always looking at our options for teh future of PBW but we are not currently actively redeveloping it. It seems like you are suggesting that the DSL is not really down but we are pretending it is so we can do a redesign of the PBW server? If we ever redevelop PBW it will be done while PBW is up and running and we will switch to the new system once it's been tested and stuff. There is no reason to take the system down for weeks to do that, and certainly no reason for us to be less then honest about what we are doing.

It's unlikely that this thought would occur to anyone, as they would expect based on past experience we would be up front with them about what is going on.

Geoschmo