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Update: 12:20pm PST – the servers have returned online.

Due to an unexpected disk drive outage at our data center, PMOG is down for unscheduled maintenance starting at 11:45am PST, Saturday 28 February.

We will post updates here as they’re available.

Thanks for your patience!

Loot your crates or lose them!

Update: We’ll be moving this maintenance up to 0700 PDT.  Sorry for the lack of notice.

Usually, each Thursday we bring you a special happening that gives you incentive to partake in some aspect of PMOG. This week, we must ask you to stop laying crates and start looting them instead.

After this Sunday at around 2100 PDT, any and all events on PMOG.com itself will be removed when we perform some scheduled maintenance on our servers and databases; this is unavoidable and requires your immediate attention.

What this means

• All crates/DP cards currently on profiles or http://pmog.com/* (any PMOG.com page) will no longer be accessible.
• All mines currently on profiles will disappear.
• All portals currently on profiles or http://pmog.com/* will no longer be active.
• All missions that include a stop on a http://pmog.com/* page will no longer work.
• Other tools such as St. Nicks and Watchdogs possibly may not be around on profile pages either.

What you need to do

• Loot every crate on your profile, or http://pmog.com/* page you might have stashed or someone might have stashed for you.
• Only mine profile pages, if you’re okay with those mines not being there after Sunday.
• Stop placing portals on any/all http://pmog.com/* pages.
• Be prepared to edit your missions after Sunday (more information to be provided then).

FAQ

• Your created missions will remain intact, but simply will need editing if they included a page on http://pmog.com (more information to come).
• Your Datapoints, Classpoints, and all crates/mines/portals/etc. stashed on pages other than http://pmog.com will remain untouched.
• Yes, if you fail to loot your crates before Sunday, they will be gone forever.

You may discuss this on the forums.

Please also refer to this server maintenance notice.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience,
Joe

Update: This has been changed to begin at 0700 PDT. Sorry for the lack of notice.

Sunday, 1 March 2009, beginning at 2100 PDT, all PMOG services will be brought down for scheduled maintenance. This extended downtime may take up to 12 hours to complete.

This blog will remain operation.

The following will be serviced during this time:

• PMOG.com
• The PMOG Toolbar
• PMOG Chat

Thank you,

GameLayers

Around 20 minutes ago we experienced a disk error on our master database. We’re working hard to fix this with our hosting company, Engine Yard, and we’ll get the game back up and running just as quick as we can!

– Update (12:40 GMT): The website is now back up and we should be getting back to normal. There’s some more work to do in order to replace the disk, but we’ll aim to handle that with as little interruption as possible. Apologies for the downtime!

Part 2 in a 3 part series about the evolution of the web’s game PMOG (Part 1: A History of PMOG)

PMOG today is a thriving game universe happening all across the Internet. Each day thousands of people use the PMOG toolbar to play across the web, leaving bombs or treasure on web sites, taking Missions programmed by other playful minds.
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PMOGery of the Week (PoW, for short) is a weekly installment of the most popular PMOG Community content from the week prior. Too busy to keep up with everything happening in PMOGia? No worries. We have you covered. Make the jump below!

This week: Money for Missions, 150 Pages of Mystery and Organizing Books and more!

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PMOG officially entered Public Beta in February 2008. Since then, we’ve gone through a number of iterations and tens of thousands of people have experienced PMOG. You being one of them, we’d like to say thank you for playing.

Today you will receive an extra datapoint for each unique TLD you view, regardless of if you’re wearing armor or not. Enjoy the datapoints and we hope you will continue to enjoy PMOG as we continue to progress and evolve as the best game in Firefox!

A poster for PMOG at the March 2007 Game Developer's Conference

Part 1 in a 3 part series about the evolution of the web’s game PMOG:

PMOG was born of the desire to bring people together online in play. So many people are connected all the time, what if they could be connected to each other, playing games?

The first PMOG prototype in May 2006 was a range of D&D stats applied to a few popular web sites. Go to Flickr, raise your Dexterity. Go to Amazon, raise your Constitution. It was a Passively Singleplayer Online Game; one person raising their own RPG-stats in a vacuum. Continue Reading »

PMOGery of the Week (PoW, for short) is a weekly installment of the most popular PMOG Community content from the week prior. Too busy to keep up with everything happening in PMOGia? No worries. We have you covered. Make the jump below!

This week: Tubenauts #10, PMOG IRC Word Clouds, Valentine’s Day XKCD Style, and more!

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After weeks of reading applications, discussion, and voting, we are happy to present to you five new Stewards, which mark the fifth generation of PMOG Stewards!

thebeej

theungodlyone

mortmer

birch262

t_man

We’d sincerely like to thank everyone who applied. While this gets said often, each person who applied would have made a great Steward; we simply had to choose who we thought filled the roles we currently are in need of in our program.

Please join in on the celebration on the forums!

-burdenday & The Stewards