We whittled it down to one server, and the lag is hilariously bad even when there's only one player in the world. You'll run into a quoin and it takes several seconds to register what happened.
Oh, and there are no more animals, all the trees are dying, and houses and towers have vanished. Bureaucratic hall aside, this is not the Ur you remember! It's a depressing, dead one. But hey, at least the rook is gone.
We're running around repopulating areas with life and houses and whatnot for various archival purposes. I took this snap because I'm making animated gifs of all the animated stuff in the game, and I wanted a variety of bureaucroc looks to work against. All of those gifs will be coming to the encyclopedia soon!
"Indefinitely" is a better word than "forever," as forever is a very, very long time. Let's just change that previous comment to read "We're just going to leave it up indefinitely".
LP, thank you for all of your notes and snaps from 'the other side'. We all miss it terribly, and while on the one hand it's sad, it helps a little (well, helps me at least) to know and hear what's going on, and it's comforting to know that, for now at least, you're still in there. <3
I'll be so glad to be able to look at the Encyclopedia for a good long while. And in my mind the world is still alive and busy - it's just on a different server than the one you're on, LP! :D
A downloadable Encyclopedia would be awesome!! But I'm also quite happy with the "leave it up indefinitely" part. Glad to hear that not everything will go away at the end of the year.
Could you please populate my street with a cute lil pink roofed house, a seven floor tower, 11 piggies, 2 butterflies, and 42 jellisac mounds.....for archival purposes ;)
Indefinitely?? Oh, wow, that's way more than I ever hoped for! Thanks for doing so much to honor our love for this game! And I'll echo VS--I love seeing the snapshots from the inside. It's like a comforting postcard from home.
I agree, snazzlefrazz... I miss all the Glitchen. LPC, it must be even harder for you to see our beautiful world barren.. Love to you and the other devs...
UGH! is there any devs who would like to let me play? again? Come on i know you want too! Im sick of my mother sending me messages every 2 seconds about joining farmville
Yes! keep the website up indefinitely! and lol zoey. and little poundcake, if you don't let me in, i'll just leave you with half a server and it'll be even more laggy.
Thanks for the news about the encyclopedia! I suppose in theory it would all be findable via archive.org or similar, but this is so much more awesome, and hopefully keeping a server up (or a Cloudfront-fronted S3 bucket, whatever) to serve relatively modest amounts of static content isn't so much of a burden.
View all of Little Poundcake's snaps
also - "So you want to close the game down, Mr. Butterfelt? Okay, first tell me which is better: magenta or Beethoven's Fifth?"
Oh, and there are no more animals, all the trees are dying, and houses and towers have vanished. Bureaucratic hall aside, this is not the Ur you remember! It's a depressing, dead one. But hey, at least the rook is gone.
We're running around repopulating areas with life and houses and whatnot for various archival purposes. I took this snap because I'm making animated gifs of all the animated stuff in the game, and I wanted a variety of bureaucroc looks to work against. All of those gifs will be coming to the encyclopedia soon!
i thank you for your work. and i promise to stand witness.
*hugs*