We know that around this time of year, a lot of you guys are probably pretty busy as it's time for the holidays. We don't want you to worry about Discovery constantly when you're away from home, or even merely enjoying your vacation time.
As an early Christmas present to you all, we have disabled temporarily the need for Playerbases to be fed Food, Water, Oxygen, or any of the Repair Commodities. (Repairs will only be used if the base takes damage) We'll re-enable the drain sometime after the holidays, an additional announcement will be made 24 hours before that starts once again.
Hope you enjoy the festive season.
Edit: As a notice, any new bases during this time 'will' start to eat repair commodities. If you decide to build it now, send me a Private Message and i'll change your base settings at the next server restart.
As a more personal note, I would like to thank all of you for your participation and presence here on Discovery. It's easy to lose the big picture and call things 'bad', although after some reflection, I have come to be thankful for each and every one of you. The large amount of Roleplay which is churned out each day, the fights that go on, this is truly a game in the end. You all server very well as a reminder of that daily without even knowing it.
Thank you guys so much for making this place what it is. I really couldn't have asked for more.
A note to all: Cannon has graciously supported the costs of keeping this server going for the last six months on his own dime. Due to his own generosity, and a little forgetfulness, he has not made the community aware of the fact that donations have long since dried up. If you feel moved to express your appreciation for this server with your voluntary donations, please do so. The process of making donations is laid out here. Cannon and the rest of the Staff wish to thank you in advance.
We're working on the web server, so expect slowness and/or temporary downtime over the next 1-2 days as we sort it out, on both the forum and the wiki. We'll try to minimise impact so you shouldn't find it too problematic however.
Cheers for patience.
Edit: Your posts from this point on 'will' be lost when we re-upload the forum database. Please try to refrain from doing any large RP posts, unless you have backups of them beforehand.
We'll announce when this process is completed.
--Moveit56
EDIT: The hard part of forum maintenance should be finished for good now. Post in this thread if you find any issues though. Feel free to continue posting like you normally do, data will not be lost from this point onward. We're still working out the other problems, although we hope to have that finished soon.
Thanks to some wonderful work by Alley, a small patch was put in a few minutes ago regarding docking modules. See the below for the functionality of the addition.
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- Implemented a base enter notification: if you dock on a base and you have a ship in a docking module, you will be warned about it in chat.
- Removed autojettison on base enter.
- Added /jettisonall : it's a cruel command that instantly eject anyone in a docking module of yours. Do not use on legit docked players as they'll undock from the proxy base.