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Corpolitick 2.2 - The Game of Organizational Dominance(TM)(R)(C)

In the not-too-distant future, power is forged, wielded, shattered, reforged, sharpened, wielded again, broken again, and hung on the wall as a Relic of Mystery by Organizations, ranging from tiny partnerships to mammoth multicontinent corporations, from strange clans to stranger nonprofit NGOs, from Amalgamated Marketing Marketing ("We only sell salesmen who sell salesmen") to PhytoCarn Products ("Animal-based health food for plants") to Geeks'R'Us to Walt-You-Will-Have-Fun-Corporate-World.

Blood of Dragons is set in the low-magic, medieval-inspired fantasy world of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Knowledge of the books is not required for players with some MU*ing experience, though it is definitely helpful.

The game takes place 140 years prior to the start of the first book, A Game of Thrones. The end of King Daeron's campaign in Dorne is fast approaching, and this weekend Blood of Dragons MUSH will be hosting two high-profile events that constitute the climax of the Conquest of Dorne:

I'm a system admin who is hosting three seperate mushes on a win32 precompiled environment. Until know I've started them off using a batch file that one of the mush owners made. It basically does this:

"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 1\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 2\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 3\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
cmd

I'm the server administrator for three small pennmush communities. I've hosted them on a spare box for years now. One of the admins came to me after having lost his god username and password. How do I locate and recover these?

I'm an experienced system admin with little knowledge of pennmush's inner workings. I just run the darn thing. I would like to pick this up but the documentation is too geared to a unix user. I'm running the precompiled win32 binaries. Step by step instructions that don't assume knowledge of pennmush jargon would be greatly appreciated.

I've put up an experimental git repository for Penn.

Get it via: git clone http://download.pennmush.org/Repos/pennmush.git

Handy for local hackers, since you can create local branches for custom stuff and keep up to date. I think. Branches and git and I haven't gotten along in the past. Please don't ask me how to use it.

It should sync with the master subversion repository on googlecode every couple of hours.

I'm sure there will be much rejoicing over this announcement. Likewise, there will be some politically correct acknowledgments that it is my right to do as I choose with what is mine. So on, and so forth. I doubt that there will be any voices crying out 'WTF?! Why?! Don't do this!' for fear of public mockery (of the kind I have recently endured).

There's a saying "You can't take it with you.".

Hi community.

I currently manage and pay for 4 websites and one mush. I think I probably pay about $400.00 a year for all of these services combined.

I like these services because someone else takes care of support, security, and patching. I don't like these services because I lose some flexibility.

In the last year or so, virtual private servers have gained some traction - it looks like a year on a vps server with 512 RAM would cost me $240.00 (and my time). I liked the idea of dedicated servers, but they are waaaay out of my price range.

I threw up a new release (1.0.1) of my +countries code for displaying a breakdown of what countries players are connecting from, and converting between country name and domain extension. The only change is some updates to country names... unless you have people connecting from Nepal or Venezuela, there's no need to upgrade an already-installed copy. If you're interested in seeing it in action, it's on M*U*S*H.

http://raevnos.pennmush.org/mushcode or http://download.pennmush.org/MUSHCode.

Judgment Day is basically "now" (it's always now). The Court of Public Opinion is always in session. And, there's always someone willing to appeal their case there. (leverage their reputation, risk humiliation, flail in desperation, whatever)

This may or may not be helpful.

Keeping a nice list of progress on SceneSys, and what still needs to be done.