Suikoden: Pro Patria Mori

Jun 04, 2006 04:49

I have a Suikoden Writing Game called Suikoden: Pro Patria Mori. It's a writing game that's centered around a new, unheard of country in the Suikoden series called Magridal that borders Harmonia, Zexen, and Tinto. A few people on my friends list write there, including myaru and seta_suzume. The other people I recall off-hand who are involved now are Benita, Rakeesh, Thomas Barefoot, and Uwangski.

It seems that interest in this game is picking up again. Thomas and Uwangski just joined (they have yet to start writing a lot) and there's at least one application in my inbox that I have to deal with, as well. I'm working on the next story for the Magridal arc, and Amber is working on several for Harmonia.

I'm actually surprised that the game's still going, myself. It's been around for over a year and there's been few posts, but yet, there is a steady interest level. It's managed to capture more people than Illusion of Memory did after a year; that game kind of dissolved even though there were a fair number of posts. I met a few good people on that game but not many of us wrote.

Well... I should try to get people to talk about the game again. I see Rakeesh online here and there and should message him and I've just added seta_suzume to my list. I need to check if the two new people have LJ accounts or some other form of casual contact so I can just see what they are up to.


Anyway, I had to migrate the web site for SPPM to a new computer server because the old one was on my University of Waterloo computer. Yeah, I graduated, but still managed to keep the use of a machine there for a few months after I finished. The University is actually a really good place to put a server, actually, since the computer itself is super-new and really fast (it's like a 2.8 GHz or something) and it's hosted on an EXTREMELY fast connection (it'll easily upload 200-300 KB/sec). Of course, if you actually host that much stuff and transfer more than about a gig a day, the network admins knock on your door and ask why you're using up all of the bandwidth. SPPM is a small-bandwidth site, so no one really cared. The only problem? I didn't plug it into a backup power supply, so if the power went out, I had to E-mail Mike (the network guy for our lab) to get him to turn the computer back on.

The process of migration was really hard, though. I won't describe the gory details here, but it took me the better part of six or seven hours to get it running. I tried upgrading it to Drupal 4.7.2, but that failed, and then I tried to crossgrade it to Drupal 4.6.8, but that failed too, so I went back to trying to handle 4.7.2. That still didn't work, so I tried 4.6.8 again and ended up discovering the problem (out of date flexinode module) and finished the migration just a few moments ago.
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