The Nethernet Community News

Charles Nethersby, Reserve Bank Chairmen of TNN

[Begin Transmission: Until 29 May, 0900 PST Ping values are doubled on TNN]

Today the The Reserve Bank of TNN took its first official action in a number of years in response to the growing popularity of Zous Bucks. The Reserve Bank Chairmen, Charles Nethersby, said in a news conference, “Due to concern over the growing interest in “alternate currency” within the Nethernet, The Reserve Bank is increasing the number of Pings Netherati earn throughout The Nethernet. We will be increasing the amount issued for today only to double its usual rate and assess the situation further from there.”

Mr. Thomas Hoggins Esq. himself, the wealthiest Nethernaut, was contacted for comment: “There is no need to read too heavily into the action today by The Reserve Bank,” said Hoggins. “During the Leaderboards Crash of 2008, and due to a number of actions by my colleagues Datapoint and Ping rates have been adjusted in order to correct imbalances. This is standard procedure.” When Hoggins was asked if he had set about investing in Zous Bucks or had visited the Goldensneaker, he declined to comment.

[End Transmission; Zousware ventures are considered safe by TNN, but bugs may still occur. Play/invest at your own risk!]

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The Nethercast of the Week (NoW, for short), a weekly installment of the best Community content from the week prior. Too busy to keep up with everything on the forums? No worries. We have you covered. Make the jump below!

Thanks to your Community Steward birch262 and nitwit88 for submitting some of this week’s content!

Don’t forget you can always submit content, including your own Missions, to the NoW just by PMailing @burdenday with a link.

This week: Pathmakers v. Seers, The Chevalier Paradox, a Treasure Hunt and more!

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Update: 1830 PST: Everything should be working as intended now!

Update: 1715 PST: Bringing the server down for another code-push. Some of it didn’t take correctly last time. Sorry!

Update: 1500 PST: We have finished maintaining. Thanks for your patience!

TNN is undergoing some maintenance

If you’re wondering what’s happening with The Nethernet right now, we’re in the process, or shortly will be in the process, of a long stint of maintenance to our database, today, 23 May 2009, beginning around 10:00 AM PST.

We expect this process to take up to 9 hours, off and on.

Thanks for your understanding and patience while we strive to improve your playing experience.

-GameLayers

Please join in on congratulating the following winners of the Official Class Mission Contest! Over 20 Missions were submitted and the competition was very tough. We made our selections based on what we thought would be the best initial experience for a brand-new TNN player to experience. Every Mission that was made did an excellent job laying a foundation for its respective Class, but we had to choose just one (or in some cases two) and here they are:

Order's Official Class Missions!

Order

Bedouin: bunni3burn’s Bedouin Basics: The Guide [Part 1] & hollowleviathan’s Bedouin: A course in Offensive Armor [Part 2].

Benefactor: chetyre’s Being a Benefactor.

Pathmaker: nitwit88’s Effective Use of the Light of Order [Part 1] & mortmer’s A Concise Guide to Pathmaking [Part 2].

Chaos's Official Class Missions!

Chaos

Destroyer: shyiskhar’s Destroyers: An Introduction [Part 1] & JamesCannon’s Destroyers [Part 2].

Seer: sobeknerfu’s Seer School: Overview of Seerdom 101.

Vigilante: Geb’s Being in the Vigilante Class [Part 1] & Riko’s Vigilante Basics [Part 2].

We’d also like to honor the following honorable mentions:

madragoran’s Laying out the Ariadnes Thread: The Pathmakers.
sylverling’s An Abundant Life: The Crate & A Memory of Portals.

From here, I’ll be going through, editing the titles and descriptions and marking them as Official Missions! We’ll then also integrate them into the stream of PMails/objectives new players receive in one of the coming releases.

Thanks again to not only the winners and honorable mentions, but to everyone who submitted a Mission. They were simply fantastic!

Greetings, Players,

Beginning around 10:00 AM PST, Saturday, 23 May 2009, The Nethernet servers will be intermittently down for up to 9 hours. We are making systemic changes to our database and will be running a number of migrations. During this time all TNN services, aside from TNN Chat will most likely be unavailable or unresponsive.

Afterwards the servers should be significantly improved as far as response time and overall stability.

We appreciate your understanding, and wish you a happy Memorial Day weekend, for those of you in the United States!

Thank you,
GameLayers

General Jerdu Gains

[Until 5/22/08 at 9 AM PST, Players will receive 5 DP for not wearing Armor and only 1 DP for wearing Armor.]

Dear Bloody Tuesday,

“I was informed that today is your birthday. Although we have not always seen eye to eye. I believe in second chances, and I am willing to put my defenses to the side, if you are are willing to lay down your arms. Consider this an olive branch, an invitation to a truce.

“In honor of your birthday, my gift to you is the undonning of my armor for the day. I have also negotiated so that datapoints will flow more easily to those not wearing armor in honor of your birthday. Though one still wonders why your parents named you Tuesday, when the day of your birth was a Thursday, though that is neither here nor there. Consider my offer Bloody Tuesday, and Happy Birthday to you.”

Sincerely yours,
General Jerdu Gains

[Birthday thread on TNN Forums]

The Nethernet is all around us! In our browser, and across other web sites. How might you find people to play with? You can connect with other potential allies and rivals on these sites and sizzocial networks, listed below:

Twitter, last.fm, LiveJournal, Wikia, Wikipedia, DeviantArt, YouTube, FriendFeed, Facebook, MySpace, AMO, StumbleUpon. And what did we miss? Learn more -

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The Nethernet 0.8.2 is now available for your playing pleasure. This version is essentially the same as TNN 0.8.1, but contains a number of bug fixes and improvements to the Events Carousel.

Patch notes are available to read here on the forums and contain information regarding the bugs this version addresses.

Mark all as Read Functionality Added!

Event Carousel Improvements
You asked, we listened!
Based on your feedback after the initial release of TNN 0.8.1, we heard that a number of you more active players are blessed (and cursed) with a huge amount of Events to scroll through when you first log in each day in the Events Carousel. To help you overcome your popularity, we have added a “Mark All as Read” function to both the overlay itself, and the Notices PMail Inbox.

The Nethercast of the Week (NoW, for short), a weekly installment of the best Community content from the week prior. Too busy to keep up with everything on the forums? No worries. We have you covered. Make the jump below!

Thanks to your Community Steward birch262 and nitwit88 for submitting some of this week’s content!

Don’t forget you can always submit content, including your own Missions to the NoW just by PMailing @burdenday with a link.

Also a big thanks to bunni3burn for leading TNN LiveJournal and Last.fm communities!

This week: PRisk II Planning, TNN Anonymous, Little Red Riding Hood and more!

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