by Jeff Woleslagle on Dec 07, 2009
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We at Ten Ton Hammer have spent a lot of time over the past week upgrading and refitting the network for much improved performance. Details on what we've done and how we can use your help, plus all-new fleet information from Star Trek Online and an in-depth preview of the EverQuest: Underfoot expansion on the Ten Ton Hammer network today and in Loading... Looking Up.
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Here are today's top 5 Pulse results:
WorldBiggest movers today:
EverQuest (UP 6 to #19)It's been a busy weekend here at Ten Ton Hammer. Our tech team has instituted a number of changes that should result in vastly faster pageloads when our writers are actively posting news and articles. Traffic jams on our database server resulted in lengthy minute-plus loads for our viewers were common during periods when we trying to update the site with new info. It was a lose-lose situation. Thankfully it's been largely resolved, and we look forward to bringing you top-notch MMOG and RPG content that you can actually view!
We still have a few remaining cleanup items from the massive update - RSS feeds, image placement, duplicate text, incomplete listings on portal pages, and a broken search function among them - but if you happen to notice anything that seems out of place, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me an email (ethec@tentonhammer.com) linking me to the page where you're encountering the problem, along with a quick description of the issue you're experiencing. Thanks for any feedback!
Star Trek Online announced fleet (guild) plans today in a Ten Ton Hammer Q&A. What's hot: the ability to customize uniforms right down to uniform era, style, pockets, insignia, and belts. Star Trek purists might object to any uniform changes beyond regulation issue, but note that fleets offer captains a separate uniform costume slot - it's not going to supercede your ability to sport Jean Luc's toga-like dress uniform. What's not so hot: plans for the minimum fleet "charter" requirement of two people. Ten is the time honored minimum for charters, it's been that way since at least EverQuest.
Perhaps things are much more spread out in STO, but in my experience there's definitely a happy median in guild size - too small and it fades, too large without some kind of subdivisioning and it implodes. It seems like two would tend to make fleets feel empty before they have a chance to grow. Feel free to disagree with me in the Loading... forums.
Also of particular note is Dalmarus's excellent preview of the EverQuest: Underfoot expansion, due to hit live servers in a little more than a week. For many of us, EQ stretched our imagination like never before as our first MMO, and Underfoot seems to tap that same creative vein with a focus on the Heart of the World, domain of Brell Serilis, Norrath's trickster god. Dalmarus painted a picture of a colorful yet discordant world on the order of Alice's Wonderland, but the thing everyone can love about Underfoot is that it includes EQ's 15 previous expansions in an all-in-one edition.
Don't forget about the one hour live Age of Conan "Rise of the Godslayer" demo today at 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT at Xfire.com . I'm anxious to see what they show over and above the PAX demo. If you can't make it, Ten Ton Hammer will be on hand to help crash the site. We'll report what happens if we're unsuccessful.
Shayalyn's Epic Thread of
the Day
From our Ten Ton Torched forum
The Daily "It Made Me Laugh!"
Today's
epic thread comes from the I Got Nothin' Department...as in, it's been
a slow weekend (the holidays approacheth, after all), and there are no
new threads on the forum that seem capable of reaching epic
proportions. Yet. So I'll offer up a tried and true thread I've offered
before, since it's one that never fails to deliver--our It Made Me
Laugh thread. The further you dig into this thread, the more fun you'll
have.
Hey, it's Monday! You could use a good laugh. Trust me.
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Awesome Quotes from the
Epic Thread
"Thats disturbingly hilarious."
- kitsunegirl
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