So, with sadness, I have to tell you all that we’re facing a tough choice. We can leave The Nethernet online, and there will be technical issues that may prevent basic activities. Basically, a limping The Nethernet. Or, we can take The Nethernet down, and save the slow pain with a swift goodbye.

Maybe, some day, if our other efforts pan out, and the stars align, we can come back here and hack away to make this game work right. For now, I’ve asked my team not to spend any more time fixing bugs on The Nethernet, because we have other fun we are building.

So for the people who have been playing, and the people who love this game, would you rather we shut it down, or leave it up without fixing it? Post your thoughts in the Forums, if you can get through.

There will be some further maintenance taking place today.

It is planned to begin around 4PM PST and will most likely continue for the rest of the day.

Access will be restored as quickly as possible.

Salmontickler

Mortmer Objects

This led to a new contest between the Seers and the Pathmakers who are now trying out each other’s tools for the next three days. Take a moment to check out their handiwork in the following threads and cheer on the team of your choice.

Team Pathmaker Promotion Thread

Team Seer Promotion Thread

“Letofski, I have to say congratulations are in order” said Aurain to his compatriot, “Verdant Obfuscation of Information Department indeed.  Half the people out there are up in arms, the other half think we’re blowing smoke and are laughing at the absurdity of it all, and just a select few are beginning to suspect that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

“Well, it was rather funny.  All those orderlies arguing about how we have to have a list of complaints and petition for redress before rebelling. I mean, they do realize that we’re chaos,  right?”

The seer laughed and shook his head.

“All jokes aside though, how are we supposed to pull this off? I mean, we don’t have those fancy hacks that Victoria Ash and Bunni have…”

Sighko grinned manically, “Oh, I don’t think that will be a problem…”

He crossed over to the other side of the room and prodded a few innocent looking flagstones, flinging open a hidden door containing an underground armory. Sitting beyond the threshold, a wide expanse filled to the brim with gigantic, steel racks could be seen, each containing a multitude of meticulously polished mines and grenades, crackling portals, ballistic St. Nicks, and between which hundreds of glowing blue coils crackled fiercely in the darkness.

“Vicky really should learn to clean up her toys before she leaves,” the elder vigilante sighed, “You never know what kind of trouble the kids may get up to otherwise…”

These are no ordinary tools however, due to an infusion of energy that has now spread throughout The Nethernet, reaching the whole community, grenades and mines will cause 20 DP worth of damage, 6 ballistic St. Nicks can be attached to each player, and seers will get double classpoints when drawing a Portal.

In addition to these changes, twice as many Grenades and St. Nicks can be attached to all players and the maximum number of Impedes a player can have attached to them at any one time is 10, meaning they will lose 5 classpoints for their next 50 tool uses.

The time has come, you have your duties!!

Thanks,
Chetyre

There may some maintenance taking place today, which will mean “The Nethernet” will not be accessible during this downtime.

I will post more information once I know times and duraton.

Salmontickler

Greetings.

Elections for  The Nethernet Prime Minister Cabinet positions officially close today and it has been brought to my attention that some of you may not have voiced your opinion and selected your preferred candidate.

All you could ever want to know about the elections, the candidates, and more can be found in the forum thread here.

If you already have someone in mind you can head straight over to the polling station by clicking here. Just enter your Nethernet User ID and Password to login.

The community needs your vote, and participation is fun.

Vote now and secure a seat for the candidate you want.

“Nader 09″  – The right choice, the wrong election

]]> http://passivelymultiplayer.com/?feed=rss2&p=267 http://news.thenethernet.com/2009/07/25/use-it-dont-abuse-it/ http://news.thenethernet.com/2009/07/25/use-it-dont-abuse-it/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:14:51 +0000 Stewards http://news.thenethernet.com/?p=2839 Greetings Netizens.

With all the recent changes now seems like a good time to post a quick reminder about a couple of rules that all players agree to when joining and are expected to follow when playing and enjoying The Nethernet

The subject is Alts. What is an alt you may ask.

An alt, or Alternative account is a second, or sometimes third account that a player can create and use to play the game.  There is no rule against creating multiple accounts, although obviously it would be great if everyone used only one account.

Maybe you have an urge to blow things up, but like to keep your main account as a Destroyer free zone. Creating another account for reasons like this is perfectly fine.

While there is no rule against creating multiple accounts, what is not allowed is to make an account and use it to assist, interact or improve your main account.

Examples of this would be using an account to mine another one, or to take missions that the main user created, each of those actions will earn you classpoints and this is classed as cheating, it will lead to a suspension, or even a total ban.

We know this has been happening, it does not go unseen, and many members of the community are disheartened when they see a user rising through the levels unfairly.

Cheating, along with the other rules and guide to expected conduct within the game and the Chat rooms can be found in the Terms of Service and Community Standards pages of the guide.

This post is not the beginning of a witch hunt, it is more of an Amnesty announcement. We know this happens, but now is the time to stop.

Our common goal is to have a friendly, successful, and fair game, and any form of cheating upsets all of this.

So by all means create enough accounts to match your personalities, but keep them separate.

Thanks

The Stewards