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by idles
Tue Mar 31, 2009 19:57 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New slogan for Icesus
Replies: 27
Views: 55172

Thanks for all the suggestions. We might as well go with the current one but it's been around for a while so a little change and competition never hurts :)

Good job so far. Keep 'em coming!
by idles
Sat Mar 28, 2009 15:37 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New slogan for Icesus
Replies: 27
Views: 55172

New slogan for Icesus

We are launching a small banner campaign on topmudsites and mudconnector.

For that we need a killer slogan and idea for the banners.

Post your ideas to this topic. Best slogan will be rewarded generously 8)
by idles
Tue Jun 05, 2007 22:08 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Network problems: FIXED
Replies: 0
Views: 6830

Network problems: FIXED

The lag spikes are officially gone. The problem haunted us for weeks, starting up from the fuckup-shortcircuiting at local phone company.

We are now running on a new network connection, new switch and new firewall.
by idles
Fri Jan 12, 2007 17:24 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Game restore, rollback
Replies: 0
Views: 7214

Game restore, rollback

Unfortunately we found out that the second harddrive on the RAID-1 mirror was also broken. This forced us to restore the game data from backups taken to remote server. All game data & code was restored from backups taken on [11/Jan/2007:05:06:40]. I'm very sorry about the restore. We have replac...
by idles
Thu Jan 11, 2007 18:39 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Downtime on friday 12th January
Replies: 0
Views: 6502

Downtime on friday 12th January

The mud will be down for a while on friday morning (around 10:00) when we replace a broken harddrive. The hardware failure caused some lagbursts and a crash last monday.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
by idles
Wed Nov 08, 2006 19:39 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Memberships are handled by Vivian
Replies: 0
Views: 6679

Memberships are handled by Vivian

Just a quick note to say all the memberships for Icesus association have been handled. I'm very sorry for the delay. In the future please contact Vivian for membership applications! If you feel your application was not handled at all or properly, please get in touch with Vivian via mudmail. I would ...
by idles
Sat Sep 23, 2006 07:46 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Hardware crash
Replies: 0
Views: 6302

Hardware crash

The game server crashed yesterday due to a hardware failure (kernel panic). We are investigating the problem.
by idles
Thu Aug 31, 2006 18:00 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Server moved
Replies: 0
Views: 6398

Server moved

We have switched servers. The new server offers twice the firepower over the old one.

As a result, command limit has been increased from 10 to 20. Yippee.
by idles
Tue Aug 29, 2006 18:05 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Maintenance update: Icesus moving to faster server
Replies: 0
Views: 6765

Maintenance update: Icesus moving to faster server

Icesus is moving to a new host - a faster server. The move will happen on 31st August (Updated. Was 30th). The move will be followed by couple of hours downtime.

New address is ''goblin.icesus.org 23'', redirects will be put in place.

PS. Ice-dev FTP works again *cheers*
by idles
Tue Mar 28, 2006 09:36 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Solution to lag: more horsepower
Replies: 0
Views: 6312

Solution to lag: more horsepower

We have made arrangements to move Icesus to a faster server. The new server will have about 50-70% more computing power, hopefully breaking the backbone of the ferocious lagmonster for good.

More information will be posted later on. The move is scheduled to happen in May.
by idles
Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:05 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Network outage
Replies: 0
Views: 6001

Network outage

The game was unreachable today from 05:30 to 10:20 (EET; server time) because of a network failure at TeliaSonera's backbone network. Sorry for the inconvenience.
by idles
Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:42 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Game Restore to fix Crashes
Replies: 0
Views: 6334

Game Restore to fix Crashes

The game data was restored from backups taken yesterday at 17:20 server time. The rollback was around 16 hours.

The reason behind this was a series of crashes caused by a bug in the game driver.

To lessen the pain the elemental gods have granted an increased exp bonus for the next day.
by idles
Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:02 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Woodcutting
Replies: 0
Views: 6425

Woodcutting

A serious exp abuse was found from woodcutting code. It was possible to do a 11k/min exp rate by botting woodcutting with a few tweaks. The exp reward has been disabled and will be enabled later on after a redesign. Lula was caught botting woodcutting and has been removed. Administrators are having ...
by idles
Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:53 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Inactive player purge & reboot speedup
Replies: 0
Views: 6342

Inactive player purge & reboot speedup

Some 8200 inactive players were purged, the criteria used to purge - Inactive for more than 2 years, less than 100k exp or - Inactive for more than 1 year, less than 10k exp. Also the reboot (read: backup) process was somewhat optimized, the game should be back up in less than 10 minutes after a reb...
by idles
Sat Dec 24, 2005 15:48 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Blackjack ban or limit
Replies: 5
Views: 8387

I'm afraid you really need to learn to set your own limits and keep them. There will be no functionality to do it for you :twisted: