Dinorius_Redundicus
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A question for N3V admin; what plans are in place to detect and re-start the Forum- and DLS servers if they crash over the Christmas/New Year period?
Christmas shutdown - contingency plans?
- Thread starter Dinorius_Redundicus
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Oh yes, they usually forget that.
I think we're their contingency plan for support, and as usual there will be a ton of newbie's that got the game for Christmas. I'm heading to the bunker now and getting the radar ready for any incoming attacks.
John
Trainsim.com is a good place to get the train fix....... The Trainz forums are a bit limited, though.
cascaderailroad
New member
I think there is an old thread, that I proposed that we need a secondary emergency Forum, in cases when N3V is offline ... please post your emergency forum links, in this thread:
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/show...y-External-Forum-Chatroom&p=939962#post939962
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/show...y-External-Forum-Chatroom&p=939962#post939962
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If you like reading about Railworks, MSTS and two people posting about Run8, it's OK I guess......
N3V should start a Facebook Page.
mezzoprezzo
Content appreciator
OK if you are into social media, many are not and are not likely to go anywhere near it.
For UK there is always http://forum.british-trainz.co.uk, on Marky7890's site. Nice friendly forum with some well known names on it.
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It also actually has people posting daily unlike some other UK forum..........
cascaderailroad
New member
Facebook: Hmmm I wonder about Facebook.
Everytime I go there, my PC gets all retardedly slow, like it's becoming infected by the site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs
I mean we need a Forum on several websites forums, where we can go, and communicate together, during emergencies.
If TCR, TPR, USLW, RRMods, were emergency communication sites ... I would be thrilled.
Yet everytime the forum goes offline intermitently ... we all are cut off from one another ... point blank, and can not communicate together.
Everytime I go there, my PC gets all retardedly slow, like it's becoming infected by the site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs
I mean we need a Forum on several websites forums, where we can go, and communicate together, during emergencies.
If TCR, TPR, USLW, RRMods, were emergency communication sites ... I would be thrilled.
Yet everytime the forum goes offline intermitently ... we all are cut off from one another ... point blank, and can not communicate together.
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If Facebook makes your PC run slow, your PC has some problems.
It is a bit better than no forum at all to help the new folk use their Christmas gift, don't you think? N3V's forum crashes are notorious over the holidays.*
Dave.
Primary reason these subforums;
http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/forumdisplay.php?113-Auran-Trainz
get little use is because everyone is here. Phil Skene almost single handed kept the Trainz forum going over there for several years, if there was more activity there would be more subforums added. I talked Nels into making a multiplayer subforum before the one here opened, that will probably be closed because it never gets any users at all.
Nels Anderson ran bulletin boards for flightsim games before the internet existed, so his websites rarely have problems because he has many years experience as a webmaster. Result of that is it's hardly ever down, and on the rare occasions it does go down it's never for very long. So for a backup it's a pretty reliable one.
http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/forumdisplay.php?113-Auran-Trainz
get little use is because everyone is here. Phil Skene almost single handed kept the Trainz forum going over there for several years, if there was more activity there would be more subforums added. I talked Nels into making a multiplayer subforum before the one here opened, that will probably be closed because it never gets any users at all.
Nels Anderson ran bulletin boards for flightsim games before the internet existed, so his websites rarely have problems because he has many years experience as a webmaster. Result of that is it's hardly ever down, and on the rare occasions it does go down it's never for very long. So for a backup it's a pretty reliable one.
If someone truly believes that a train-sim hobby website going off-line for awhile is actually an emergency, surely it's time to shut down the computer and walk away for awhile, make contact with some people in your life, hopefully face-to-face. Make-believe trains on computer screens do not create real emergencies.
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