New Forums

The new forums have mostly taken their final shape now, so I would like to announce their official opening. In a few days, the frontpage links on both Earth and Utopia will be switched to the new forums. The old forums will remain online for the next few weeks, so that you have time to copy any material still wanted to the new boards. We won’t be reading the old forums any more, so I would ask that any bugs and suggestions especially, be posted in the jolt forums from now on.

We have taken a number of your suggestions into account over the past few weeks. Avatars, images, and signatures can be disabled on an individual level, we have added a quick reply feature, and adapted to some of your structural requests in order to resemble the old forums more closely. Requests and input may be still be considered, to the extent they’re realistic to implement.

Forum downtime remains an issue at the moment, which we’re still working on resolving. The downtime currently occurs at 07:30 GMT for between 40 - 60 minutes, and is a consequence of the database backup. The backup is to ensure that archive date is not lost if the database goes down, or becomes corrupted.

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24 Responses to “New Forums”

  1. john Says:

    “Requests and input may be still be considered”

    Is it possible to bring the current accounts over to the new forums with the same login/password?

    Or you will definately have lots of people stealing other peoples old account names

  2. MorbidAngel Says:

    Don’t know if this is the right spot but i don’t like front page of Utopia (http://games.swirve.com/utopia/index.php). It is way too yellow and not fitting the design style of game itself. Colors closer to this blog would be much better.

  3. Koei Says:

    Colors like this?
    im not so sure..
    the current one is brown, and it seems alright.

  4. DrAlex Says:

    You guys don’t have backupexec? It will backup the vast majority of databases without having to bring them down. If you are working off of a SQL backend you pretty much have to take it down to backup with a third party tool like that ^^

  5. Bogdan Says:

    You guys suppose to be Irish, why you made it brown and not green?:)

  6. McKobb Says:

    What about the in game boards?

  7. Gaza Says:

    The new forums look nice, hope the in game boards get an upgrade as well.

  8. FSB Says:

    Leave our fantastically simple and clean old forums alone!

  9. Attila Says:

    Arg what are all these buttons !
    Leave the old forums aloneeeeeeeee!!

  10. Helsmar Says:

    hmmm i still have the damned problem every so often>>

    The server at uboards.swirve.com is taking too long to respond.

    this is the ingame boards for WoL, hasnt happened to me in Gen yet… but i mean every so often i get this page… and no its not a firewall or proxy or what not…

    like the new page, and LOVE the throne page update keep em comin!

  11. Sir Sepher Says:

    Hrm… I’m gonna miss the old easy to read forums…

  12. Attila Says:

    I have to admit though the new front page is sex.
    However these new forums (external) are far too dark frankly making it alot harder to read on my old computer.

  13. me Says:

    The ingame forums in wol don’t work.Every day at least two or three times a day we cannot access them.It is getting ridiculous. Do something about it.

  14. Ruairi Says:

    w0t da f00k? lol *flings consternation at wall*

    Go Egan, ireland for gold!

    :D

  15. Roslan Says:

    The colors of this forum is a bit painful to the eyes. Please change it to a more smoothing colors.

  16. Jo Says:

    hey the utopia is looks ugly now…
    wtf

  17. phil Says:

    brown sucks for the opening page and you need more fantastical picrues to accent the site…check out the compettion. This forum is dark and depressing.

  18. Dax Gorham Says:

    You are taking survery for Utopia players and are asking everyone to fill it in…..I tried but it says I made a mistake and won’t let me close dout. Don’t knpow whats wrong but I tried.
    Daxgor

  19. andy Says:

    the colors are too dark

  20. Pike Says:

    No offense but the utopia frontpage looks very amateurish, not at all intriguing or stylish and very little graphically oiriented..

    Regarding the colours of this forum, it fucking hurts my eyes :(

    And about changing the forums, I think it will be a good idea, everything to bring more people into the game..

  21. Cavie Says:

    First I had to change my password…

    Then to enter I had to imput old password…

    And this is what I get…Failed to load previous data!

  22. girlie Says:

    EXACTLY what I have gotten too! This sucks! I have played for years now! What gives!!

    First I had to change my password…

    Then to enter I had to imput old password…

    And this is what I get…Failed to load previous data!

  23. girlie Says:

    Why did the original owner Mehul leave us.. and if he had to why not keep it like it was OMAC!!Geez!!

    I am the Monarch of my Kingdom and can’t even log in!

  24. Cavie Says:

    It is getting better. I am able to create new accounts and delete them. Still unable to return to old kingdom.

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