The Nethernet Community News

Thank you, players, one and all. The Nethernet has been retired! The community is gathering here, and GameLayers is making new games.

Everyone: have fun online!

The Nethernet is the product of GameLayers, Inc. The Nethernet is fun, but it’s too expensive for us to fix and maintain. We are working on other games, that we hope to play with you in the coming months.

So, with sadness, I have to tell you all that we’re facing a tough choice. We can leave The Nethernet online, and there will be technical issues that may prevent basic activities. Basically, a limping The Nethernet. Or, we can take The Nethernet down, and save the slow pain with a swift goodbye.

Maybe, some day, if our other efforts pan out, and the stars align, we can come back here and hack away to make this game work right. For now, I’ve asked my team not to spend any more time fixing bugs on The Nethernet, because we have other fun we are building.

So for the people who have been playing, and the people who love this game, would you rather we shut it down, or leave it up without fixing it? Post your thoughts in the Forums, if you can get through.

We’ve been in the process of moving The Nethernet to another hosting site, so a lot of stuff is wonky right now. We’re looking into it, but largely these issues will resolve themselves over the next day or so. Many apologies for the interruption of service.

Many, many apologies for the lateness of this post. We’re down today for maintenance again. Come back tomorrow.

Greetings Netizens

There will be some further maintenance taking place today.

It is planned to begin around 4PM PST and will most likely continue for the rest of the day.

Access will be restored as quickly as possible.

Salmontickler

Mortmer was offended when the Seers took over the Pathfinder leaderboard a few weeks back and voiced his objections in the forums here -

Mortmer Objects

This led to a new contest between the Seers and the Pathmakers who are now trying out each other’s tools for the next three days. Take a moment to check out their handiwork in the following threads and cheer on the team of your choice.

Team Pathmaker Promotion Thread

Team Seer Promotion Thread

Sighko, Aurain and Letofski stood around a roughly hewn table in the deepest basement of the Verdant Casque headquarters, going over reports of the public reaction to VOID’s flamboyant announcement in the forum.

“Letofski, I have to say congratulations are in order” said Aurain to his compatriot, “Verdant Obfuscation of Information Department indeed.  Half the people out there are up in arms, the other half think we’re blowing smoke and are laughing at the absurdity of it all, and just a select few are beginning to suspect that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

“Well, it was rather funny.  All those orderlies arguing about how we have to have a list of complaints and petition for redress before rebelling. I mean, they do realize that we’re chaos,  right?”

The seer laughed and shook his head.

“All jokes aside though, how are we supposed to pull this off? I mean, we don’t have those fancy hacks that Victoria Ash and Bunni have…”

Sighko grinned manically, “Oh, I don’t think that will be a problem…”

He crossed over to the other side of the room and prodded a few innocent looking flagstones, flinging open a hidden door containing an underground armory. Sitting beyond the threshold, a wide expanse filled to the brim with gigantic, steel racks could be seen, each containing a multitude of meticulously polished mines and grenades, crackling portals, ballistic St. Nicks, and between which hundreds of glowing blue coils crackled fiercely in the darkness.

“Vicky really should learn to clean up her toys before she leaves,” the elder vigilante sighed, “You never know what kind of trouble the kids may get up to otherwise…”

These are no ordinary tools however, due to an infusion of energy that has now spread throughout The Nethernet, reaching the whole community, grenades and mines will cause 20 DP worth of damage, 6 ballistic St. Nicks can be attached to each player, and seers will get double classpoints when drawing a Portal.

In addition to these changes, twice as many Grenades and St. Nicks can be attached to all players and the maximum number of Impedes a player can have attached to them at any one time is 10, meaning they will lose 5 classpoints for their next 50 tool uses.

The time has come, you have your duties!!

Just as a heads up, TNN will be down for the whole day on Sunday, August 9th.  More details will be posted as they come in.

Thanks,
Chetyre

Happy 1st of August to you all.

There may some maintenance taking place today, which will mean “The Nethernet” will not be accessible during this downtime.

I will post more information once I know times and duration.

Salmontickler

**Update**  The maintenance is likely to take around 10 hours to complete.   This will put it at around 1900 – 2100 PST

**Update**  The Nethernet has come back online.  Enjoy!

Greetings.

Elections for  The Nethernet Prime Minister Cabinet positions officially close today and it has been brought to my attention that some of you may not have voiced your opinion and selected your preferred candidate.

All you could ever want to know about the elections, the candidates, and more can be found in the forum thread here.

If you already have someone in mind you can head straight over to the polling station by clicking here. Just enter your Nethernet User ID and Password to login.

The community needs your vote, and participation is fun.

Vote now and secure a seat for the candidate you want.

“Nader 09″  – The right choice, the wrong election