Nether Nuttiness

This was way too long to post in on the sign board or even on Twitter.

Using warps between the Nether and the Normal doesn’t work as intended. What happens is if you try to warp to a point in the Nether while still in the Normal world, you are transported to the same XYZ coordinates as where you left from in the Nether. You are NOT taken to the spot where the warp is.

Example:
A warp called Derp (not an actual warp) is set in the Nether at -32,64,48. You are at 0,64,0 in the Normal world.

When you try to warp to Derp, you are instead teleported to 0,64,0 in the Nether and not to where Derp is. Once IN the Nether though, warping to Derp will work as intended.

This works the other way around, being in the Nether and trying to warp to a location in the Normal world. The same thing will happen.

I’m not sure if this is a bug with the Bukkit server or with the Essentials plugin, or if it’s even fixable. I’ll put up more information as I find it.

UPDATE: It appears this is fixed with Bukkit build #860.

Considering a Reboot

In the past I would come to a point in the site where I would get angsty bout NOT working on it and how much really has to be done. But I know you guys are dead set against me shutting the whole thing down, so I got to thinking about a complete reboot of the site. Just start everything over from day one.

That would mean is NO hosted sites, NO MIFF (though I might get CapCom to move it back to the MDb), and NO BOTP. All gone, preferably no special archive site. I MIGHT be open to re-buying the black-blade.net domain and sticking them there, but that kind of defeats the purpose.

Let me know what you think, Tweet, Email, Reply to this, or hell bitch in the Forums. Get everybody you can to respond, though I think I already know the response, hehe.

Update 4-26-11:
I have Black-Blade.net back so if ANYTHING happens with a reboot, I’ll make BB the archive for everything.

Edit: Hosted sites will stay but I won’t have anything to do with keeping them maintained

Ugh. Old Software and Spambots.

I’ve taken down the forum archives of The Asylum and IFF World again.

Turns out securing a 9-year old piece of software is pretty damn hard to do. I ended up with over 5000 spam posts on each board. It was going to be extremely time consuming to delete them so I went with the next best option, delete the boards.

I might try again someday to get them back up for viewing but right now I don’t feel like spending the effort to do so.