Archive for March, 2008

Slow forum

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Yes I know the forum is down and has been slow or down all afternoon. The more I research this problem, the more I believe that the problem lies with my hosting company, Godaddy.com. If anyone is thinking of hosting their website with them, run the other way and find someone better. I’ve written to them twice and they deny that it is their fault and told me to check with the software company.

Dear Sir or Madame,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. You will need to contact the maintainer of you forum software for information on how to optimize your forum. We do not support scripting added to the site. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Sincerely,

Online Support
Technician

I posted a thread today with the SMF forum to ask for help so we’ll see what they say. If you saw a different theme briefly today it was because I was testing one of the suggestions on the SMF board with no luck. Again, I’m sorry for the problems. I’m waiting to find out what I should do to fix the problem. I’m posting this here because I’m having trouble getting on the forum myself.

Slow Forum

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I just want to apologize for the Sagan4 forums being so slow. I don’t know what the problem is and the host claims it’s not them. I’m not a computer expert, this was all done as a part of being helpful to the Sagan4 community. I don’t know anything about scripting or php code or what could be wrong. I will continue to try to find a solution to the problem but for now, I just need you to understand. If anyone has any ideas of what could be wrong, please feel free to leave a comment.

Unfortunately, we do not provide technical support with third-party scripting issues. We are very limited in the support we can offer for customer-written code or scripts. If there is evidence that our system is responsible for the error, please forward it to us, and we would be happy to look into the matter further. But at the moment this does not appear to be the case, so we regret we can not assist you further with this issue.

Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.

Best regards,

Online Support Tech

Trust me, this is as frustrating for me as it is for all of you. I just want to let you know what’s going on and that I’m aware of it.

Creature Feature

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Created by Rhodix, here is a really cool alien plant species.

lyrostira

The lyrostira split from the flufflestalk, being able to reach the double stature of its ancestor. The leaves are rounded and longer, forming canoe-like structures around the stem, where water can be imprisoned into small pools. The top part evolved a type of chamber, keeping the immature coiled spore rods protected. When mature, they will be straight up and allow the spores be airborne. Each rod contains numerous star-like structures, each one holding five spores. Initially closed, these will open and detach from the rod, letting the wind carry these to distant places. Later, spores will use these stars as a first settling place, giving them some nutrients to start the germination.

Super Hurricane

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

DISASTER (Super Hurricane)
A super hurricane sweeps north along the southwestern coastline of the Glicker and
deposits many species to the northeastern coastline of Wright. Rafts of debris
such as seeds and small fauna float across the ocean and come to rest on the shores
of the BigL Coast, BigL Beach and Nuke Rainforest. The following species were added
to these biomes.
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Creature Feature

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Created by Huckbuck
flowerworm
The scrub flowerworm replaced the hatching shrubworm. The eggs of the hatching shrubworm wasn’t as effective at finding good places to downroot as the older worms. This lead to that quite a strange mutation was favored and the scrub flowerworm evolved. The “trunk” of the scrub flowerworm is almost completely under ground, this is mainly for protection. The eggs now grow on the side of the “trunk under the earth, and when the worm inside the egg is big enough it cracks the now much thinner shell of the egg. The worms of the scrub flowerworm are quite different from their ancestors. They never leave the underground before downrooting, this to protect themselves.
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