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Greetings, Passive-ists,

On Saturday, 30 Aug 2008, at approximately 0900 GMT (0200 PDT; 0500 EDT) PMOG will be offline for what we hope to be a final round of database tweaking before the release of PMOG version .5 (XUL enabled!). The downtime will last approximately four (4) hours.

If you encounter any issues post-maintenance, please e-mail help at pmog dot com for support.

Many thanks,
Joe Wagner
PMOG Player Support Liaison
(@burdenday)

Hey, Passivists,

I’d like to thank those of you who took the time to take the PMOG “Friends” survey I linked here about a week ago.  Your feedback was thorough and will greatly influence how we develop the future acquaintance page redesign.

If you’d care to view the general results, you can do so here. The free-answer responses haven’t been included there, but have been reviewed by the development team.

Rest easy knowing we’re working on making PMOG better each and every day, and your feedback plays an intergal part in our decision making!

Yours,
Joe Wagner
PMOG Player Support Liaison
(@burdenday)

The PMOG IRC channel is a focal point for becoming a more active and involved member of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. If you haven’t stopped by and said hello, you should! the1joebob has created a great introduction mission for you to take, if you’d like to learn more.

That being said, the #pmog Quote of the Week Contest beings now!

Submit the funniest, most witty or cleverest quote or conversation snippit from #pmog on irc.freenode.com and email it to community at pmog dot com. Try to make sure the quotes are not NFSW or are edited in such a way to make them Community Standards and Expectations friendly.

The contest begins, today, Friday, 22 Aug 2008, and ends next Friday 29, Aug 2008 at Midnight PDT.

The submissions will then be voted on by the community and a winner will be decided!

The winning submitter will get 2,500 datapoints for him/herself, and the quotee(s) will receive 5,000 datapoints each.

Rules:
You may not nominate yourself.
You may not submit more than two (2) nominations.
You may not vote more than once.

Have fun and good luck!

You can keep up to date with this contest keeping up to date with this thread on the forums!

PMOG is looking to improve upon the way you can search through your already approved contacts (Acquaintances/Allies/Rivals), which this survey will refer to as “Friends.”

Click Here to take the survey

This survey contains open responses that allow you to share how you’d like to be able to search, sort, and organize your Friends on PMOG.

Thanks for taking the time to take this quick survey. Your feedback will directly impact the future development of PMOG!

Hey, everyone,

I wanted to apologize for the slowdown yesterday.  We had asked our host to look into something for us, and we failed to communicate as clearly as we intended about when we wanted that to be looked into.

That being said, please plan on PMOG getting a massage on 24 Aug 2008 around 4PM GMT (early morning in the United States and Canada).

This downtime may take up to 4 hours.

Thanks again for your patience, and we appreciate you Passively Playing with us!

Yours,
Joe Wagner
@burdenday
PMOG Player Support Liaison

A player by the name of olympian has began soliciting suggestions for events for the first PMOG Olympics!

Which Association will you represent?

Check out this thread in the forums to submit your own event, or for the latest news.

So far, there have been a number of suggestions for events including chava’s “Portal Racing”, where players race to get through a string of 25 portals, and davidsev’s Speed Mine Clearing where players compete to clear 50 mines from their profiles as fast as they can.

PMOG Tycoon Zous has already donated 5,000 datapoints to the Olympic pot, so submit your event ideas and keep up to date with this exciting community event.

As always, if you would like your community event to be highlighted on this blog, e-mail community at pmog dot com!

Hello, PMOGers!

Between 10pm-12am PDT, 11 Aug 2008, there may be up to a period of downtime while we perform maintenance on one of our databases.  This downtime may last for up to three hours.  During this time all PMOG services and functions will be offline.

If you encounter any difficulties after this maintenance period, please e-mail help at pmog dot com.

Thanks,
Joe Wagner
(@burdenday)
PMOG Player Support Liaison

The Tubenauts are back after a week hiatus to bring you Episode 6: Two Shoats, One Crate! Your hosts lehall, tonedef, pixielo, and ethdem discuss benefactoring, toolbar version .420, Zous’s PRisk and have an interview with GameLayer’s very own Marc Adams, Senior Programmer for PMOG.

Tune in to hear all about the latest PMOGeon happenings, along with a sneak preview of some things to come in version .5!

You can also always subscribe to the show via iTunes or leave a note on the official forum thread.

If you have any other PMOG Community happenings you’d like to have featured on the PMOG News Blog, e-mail them in to community at pmog dot com.

Zous, PMOG Tycoon, proprietor of Zous’s PMOG Lottery and co-producer of the Tubenauts has decided to take PMOG to the next level with yet another venture. In the coming weeks, PRisk (PMOG Risk) will be taking the Passive World by storm.

Which association will rule the Passive World?

What is PRisk? Good question! From Zous himself, “PRisk is a modified game of Risk. There will be six Teams, each representing one of the Associations. Play will occur following standard Risk Rules (with some Passive variation).” More can be read on the forums in this thread, if you’d like to get involved or learn more about PRisk.

So far, the teams have been selected and the board is pending its official set up.

Zous stresses, “I want people to know that everyone can play, even if they’re not on the Team. Everyone’s actions will help out their team of choice, even if they’re not on that team in particular.”

PRisk will take the actions of each Association in order to act as Battles between the Teams.  The more a Team stays true to their Association, the better the Team does in their Battle, and the more likely they’ll beat out the other Teams.  In the end, one Association will take over the World!

If you’re a little confused, or you want to learn more about Risk in general, you can take Starryice’s mission “Risk – The Ultimate Quest for Domination”, which should help out.

If you know of another player or happening that you’d like to have featured here on the PMOG News Blog, please e-mail community at pmog dot com.

We’re learning to never say never. Despite our previous post, which stated our next release would be Firefox 3 only, we have worked hard the past week to leave those remaining Firefox 2 users with one final build of the PMOG toolbar — Version .420.

This release should make your PMOG experience more secure. Additionally, there are a number of bug fixes, including restoring functionality to the toolbar messaging system and ending the conflict with multiple overlays breaking one another.

This upgrade is highly recommended for all PMOG users and from the reviews we’ve received from those helping us test, a very solid release.

A special thanks to salmontickler for volunteering and putting in a number of hours testing this with us!