Play by post/email?

[Bob McNamee]

I'm having trouble too..tuesday

[Christopher Weeks]

Have you talked to the site administrators?

I have emailed a chain of three notes -- replies to my earlier notes to them, and gotten nadda back from them.  I would heartily encourage any and all of you to drop them a line.  If they're just terribly scattershot in their replies, we might get lucky with more volume.

Chris

[Christopher Weeks]

I guess you'll all know this from the email updates, but we're up again.  It looks like the outage was less than 24 hours.

[Mike Holmes]

Arrrgh. Now I can see the site fine, but the passord problem is back worse than before. Now when I try to reset my password, and link to the page where I'm supposed to be able to do it, I get a message that I don't have authorization to change the password. So I'm locked out of editing completely.

And I wanted to put in a Tenet. Could somebody post this for me:

 - There was a World War between the Hemispheres (with some exceptions in terms of who was allied with whom) that ended just a few years ago leaving the world in a cold war situation.

Also, let's put in horizontal rules on the Tenet's page after each round, so its immediately apparent when you're eligible to post another.

And then where can I mail to complain about the password? Or, better yet, can we move this over to the Twiki mentioned? I don't see how we can trust the game to Swiki given the lousy service we've seen so far. A port at this point shouldn't be too difficult, but it will be if we wait for play to start.

Mike

[Bob McNamee]

I'll second a vote on moving.
My Tenet was late, and changed a bit, due to not being able to get there yesterday.

[Mike Holmes]

I've had a lot to say about topics like the scene Framing discussion, but can't get on to make my points.

Hopefully people aren't putting off joining because of the problems that we're enumerating here. If you're out there watching, things are starting to warm up, and I'd encourage readers to join right away. I'm sure we'll have the technical problems figured out in short order.

Mike

[Trevis Martin]

I've emailed Jon for permission to use the twiki but I'm sure he'll let us.  Is everyone agreed to move?

Trevis

[Bob McNamee]

Well, tonight (wednesday) I could see the Tenets page, and a question about my tenet, but can not get to the edit, or anyother pages (includung the negotiation question page...

Sigh,

Just to put in my thoughts on Zeppelins...

With no steel, it would have to be created out of some other material.
And engines would be a problem.
I'm assuming that bronze is the most common metallic tool. With strong advancements in ceramics, composite materials like wood and concrete. Most probably very advanced glass working, along with ceramics, maybe lots of fiberglass too?.

It wouldn't be unlikely to assume that semi/super conductors, solar panels, and electric engines could be fairly common

I'd accept Zeppelins-like tech. With a resonable explaination.

Heck some richer governments might even pool together what Iron they can get...for 'secret weapons' like internal combustion powered -steel airframed ships... or the odd cannon.

[Trevis Martin]

I've gotten an initial reply from jon and he said he has to query his partners as they have limited space.  I'll look for his reply in the next couple days, but it might not work out.

My other suggestion is RPOL (www.rpol.net)  Granted its all in thread form, like this board, but its worked out well for our Sorcerer Game.

Trevis

[Christopher Weeks]

Moving on is fine if we have a stable place.  I'm not even opposed to paying a fee if that makes it easier for your friends to justify.

And I have no idea what zeppelins are made of, but as you suggest, alternate materials -- aluminum and fiberglass maybe could replace ferous technologies.  (So do I owe a coin at this point?)

Chris

[Christopher Weeks]

OK Mike, I tip my hat to you :-)  Only just this morning did it finally sink in how cool Wiki is for this kind of game.  Thanks.

Chris

[Mike Holmes]

<Mike does that thing with the eybrows where they go up and down as if to say, "Yeah, pretty neat, eh?">

I'll send a message to Travis (not Trevis) on Indie Netgaming. He hosted the last game, and I'm betting would be willing to host this one. He provided great support.

Mike

[Mike Holmes]

Clinton posted the following to Indie Netgaming. I don't know why I didn't think to ask him. Sounds like the perfect thing.

>From: "Clinton R. Nixon" <crnixon@anvilwerks.com>
>
>Mike,
>
>I'll certainly host it for you - hell, everything's set up currently to
>run it at The Anvilwerks RPG Laboratory [1].
>
>[1] http://www.anvilwerks.com/RPGLaboratory/RPGLaboratory
>
>- Clinton

What do you think, Chris? You could post the question to the Swiki to get a general consensus.

Mike

[Christopher Weeks]

It looks like the URL should be http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/RPGLaboratory/RPGLaboratory unless I'm missing something.  It would be a new set of text formatting conventions, but if it's usually up, that's a small price to pay.  I have posted about it and we'll see how it shakes out.  And you should get over to the Tenet page and speak up!  :-)

Chris

[Mike Holmes]

It would be a new set of text formatting conventions, but if it's usually up, that's a small price to pay.

I've gone through about four modes. They're all easy to learn. And I think it might mean the survival of the game. In any case, Clinton is, of course, completely reliable.

I have posted about it and we'll see how it shakes out.  And you should get over to the Tenet page and speak up!  :-)

I would if I could. Pass me this round if I'm last.

Mike