Update: Everything is back online.

Our datacenter is currently working with the switch that we are on, so all services are down at the moment. We are not expecting this downtime to last very long.

This morning I took the server down so that I could move our data to another server. I needed our host to transfer our IP block over, so I made a ticket at 8:29 AM. I figured this would only be a half-hour-or-so process, but I have not gotten a reply since 8:35 AM. I just thought I’d let you guys know why everything is down and I will try to get everything up as soon as possible once the host finally answers my request.

RustyDagger has started a holiday raffle for Fortwars. As of this posting, there is $2,500,000 FWD in the prize pool for winning. You can enter by posting in the thread on the forums here. Good luck!

Prizes:

1st: $300,000
2nd: $250,000
3rd: $200,000
4th: $200,000
5th: $200,000
6th: $175,000
7th: $150,000
8th: $125,000
9th: $100,000
10th: $100,000
11th: $100,000
12th: $100,000
13th: $100,000
14th: $100,000
15th: $75,000
16th: $50,000
17th: $50,000
18th: $50,000
19th: $50,000
20th: $25,000

Update: We have temporarily taken this server down while the issues with the BF3 server software are being fixed.

Thanks to a generous grant from the “Hankey and LuaMilkshake’s Wallet” foundation, we have been allowed to purchase a 64-slot Battlefield 3 server. You can find the server in the server list by searching for “US TX DarklandServers.com [BF3]”. Don’t forget to favorite!

If you would like to, you can join our platoon as well: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/platoon/2832655240979918879/

The following staff members have been removed from their position due to inactivity:

Izlude (STEAM_0:0:15683662, Mod, 7/16/2011)
Ammopak (STEAM_0:1:18754198, Admin, 2/27/2011) (Pending RP Release)
Dancingly (STEAM_0:1:13800953, Admin, 8/4/2011)
Feenecks Chompski (STEAM_0:0:20955443, Mod, 7/22/2011) (Pending RP Release)
Pacificatore (STEAM_0:1:24543249, Admin, 7/30/2011)

As always, if you would like to have your position back, talk to me and we will work something out.

I’ve completed the new donations system, it has many improvements over the old system. I made a long post about it on my blog: http://www.luamilkshake.com/post/12959054063

Anyway, the system is new and hasn’t been put through rigorous testing (I did some basic testing, but I was in a rush to make it available) so if it breaks just let me know and I’ll fix your issue (I’ll throw in some extra FW cash for bug reports, too).

FW is back up and working now

I’m really sorry about the past ~13 hours of downtime guys. I moved everything to a new box because the provider had a sale and I could save us about fifty dollars per month. This sale was right on the night that I was leaving for a trip to Texas, so I needed to do everything while not at my desktop. I now have the website and the forums up, the FortWars server should be up within an hour.

Edit: Oh, also: The IPs and everything will remain the same, I had them transferred to the new server. The only thing that you will see on your end is this downtime.

I have removed the following staff members because they have not joined a Darkland server since at least Apr 15th, 2011:

Quuz (Inactivity, STEAM_0:0:6188321, Mar 09 2011)

As always, if you are on this list and would like to join our staff again, just let me know and we will work something out.

Well I had a little time today so I figured I’d fix a few things.

- Voteskips are now reset on round change
- When zoomed in with assassin your mouse sensitivity automatically decreases.
- Gunners max deflection reduced to 75 (was 125)
- You can now choose what weapon you want to spawn with from the options menu
- Mute list now updates when you open the panel.
- Achievements panel no longer throws an error

If anyone else has some other things that need fixing or tweaking let me know and I’ll try to get to them soon.