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10-01-08, 02:32 PM
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#1 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|  Return of the NWN Game Worlds
Hello everyone,
As updated in the thread last night, the game worlds will be back. We've decided to secure our own windows server hosted by the same company who hosts our forums and irc. The other deal Dan hinted at did not come to pass, but it was important for us to consider all possibilities to continue having the nwn experience of Layonara. If it matters, I'll be personally eating the costs but I have extra support from the whole Layonara Studios board should I need some help in the situation.
Our hosting providers have indicated the server should be ready as early as tomorrow morning, and no later then Friday afternoon. Since we're going to be running both West and Central off one server, its going to take some time to configure the machine's dual processors and to handle some of our custom extensions.
The servervault, the dbs and the modules are all waiting now in Montreal on the forum server. Leanthar has spent most of today uploading the information so when the new server comes up, we'll be able to move the files over swiftly.
If we run into major issues with running both servers on one machine, it may be necessary for us to temporarily run West only until we work out the glitches.
With all this information said, I expect the game worlds to be back up by the end of the weekend. If not both of them then at least West. Those of you currently logged into Central we'd tweak the db for in the event that that is necessary.
Thank you all for being patient and understanding during this downtime.
Love,
orth
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10-01-08, 04:40 PM
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#2 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: WA
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
Thank you orth and the rest of the Layo team that have went above and beyond to keep things going. I know my family and many others really do appreciate what you do even if we don't say it often enough.
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10-01-08, 04:48 PM
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
Seconded.
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10-01-08, 05:00 PM
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#4 | | Lich Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Jersey (Exit 88)
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
Lemme know if you guys need investors... in a few years... *shifty*
But thanks for keeping the place going! I hope this doesn't hurt the development of the MMO!
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10-01-08, 05:01 PM
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
Here here! Thank you!
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#6 | | One Root Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
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Originally Posted by ShiffDrgnhrt  Lemme know if you guys need investors... in a few years... *shifty*
But thanks for keeping the place going! I hope this doesn't hurt the development of the MMO! | Of course this hurts the MMO. Any time someone in the core team spends on NwN slows the progress of this dawn of a new age of Layonara.
However, with that said, we do recognize the benefits of maintaining the existing NwN incarnation and that's precisely why such efforts as what we're doing now to ensure things keep running as best we can.
Roll with the punches but in the end; get it done to the best of one's ability.
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10-01-08, 08:23 PM
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
If it comes to the case where you could only load west, would it not be wiser to load Central for a few hours at peak time, to get everyone to a portal/boat at once, that way no database edits would have to be configured?
I don't know anything about server management, its just everyone also always says database edits take a while.
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| Re: Return of the NWN Game Worlds
The database edits can be done in bulk and would take about 5 minutes or less in all likelihood. | | | | | The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Dorganath For This Useful Post: | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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