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Wait, there's a campaign? I always do that. I end up jumping right into the online play and it's usually a couple of weeks before I remember to go back and play the actual game.

Today is the launch of our newest skin, Classic. Classic is a theme that is a bit more basic than our last skin, Create, but it is also a bit more clear where some functions are concerned. The skin was previewed on our Facebook page about a week ago while still being edited, though only a few minor things still had to be changed since that time. In addition to being a revival of the red/grey found in our original SS 1.1, it will also be the replacement for that theme. As I announced back in August I would eventually be ending support of and removing SS 1.1. Hopefully this is an acceptable alternative. Let me know what you think, and as always let me know if you find any bugs I missed in testing.

Seeing as there is a renewed interested in making/sharing of graphics, I have reopened the Graphics forum. Topics are a bit dated right now but I suspect it won't take long to get a bit of new material up.

Lucky maybe, but at the same time I could say the same thing about your PC being a games machine. I used to love playing RTS games on PC. Sadly my PC hasn't been capable in quite a while.

It is games like this that make the system worth having. I am generally an xbox player, but keep both systems around for console exclusives.

Not a huge Paul Walker fan but I did enjoy the fast and furious movies.

Oh I'm resting all right. But I still have to keep an occasional eye on the place. Mostly just been watching tv in between periods of sleep. Hopefully I'm well by the time my new games arrive in the post.

Yeah it does look amazing. I seen it during Amazon's Black Friday sales for only $30 too, but I had already bought Battlefield 3 and I have to save some money yet for Christmas. The first two games are among my PS3 collection for sure and I will get this eventually, probably after the holidays.

Seems my wait was worth it. Picked up BF3 for $28 this morning, and all I have to do was be patient and wait a couple of weeks for the sale.

Almost the opposite here. The cars moving normally most of the time and nuts on motorcycles doing way above the speed limits and swerving through traffic. I live within eyesight of a highway and you can always see them at night heading down the road like doing like 90-100mph.

Horrible holiday drivers. I felt like I was on a high speed obstacle course all day today.

Not the best for sure, but the first that came to mind was Paris Hilton in House of Wax. I think there was just something pleasing about someone putting a metal pipe through her head. Around the 4 minute mark.

Yep, I named it after you. It seems to be a good reason to have a skin like this. Nostalgia, I suppose, but this has been the most requested type of skin. I figured I might as well give everyone what they wanted.

A sudden decision was made by our host to move to a new provider. Sometime in the next couple of days SoccerShouts will be moved as well. Due to the move, the sites IP address will change. We will try to make these changes as quickly as possible, but once the new IP addresses are entered it may take some time (hours) before everyone will be being pointed to the correct location. As such, there's really going to be 2 SoccerShouts for a brief while. Some posts/registrations may be lost if they are made between the time the site is moved to the new server and the time it takes for the DNS to update and point to the new server. The alternative is to put the site into offline mode until the move is finished and I'd rather not restrict the site.

Well I'm up for giving them one more chance to get it right. If not I have plans to move the site to somewhere I have more control over the system.

In regards to the recent unplanned downtime, our host provided us with the following information. While I do have a slightly more recent backup made several hours later on Nov. 6, I'm not going to ask to have this restored. To do so would cause us additional downtime until the backup can be uploaded and then imported. As this consists of less than 24 hours of posts, it really isn't worth the trouble. There is another planned outage for upgrades on November 13, though this is hardware related and should not cause and major downtime or data loss.

The scheduled maintenance for Nov. 13 has been completed. The maintenance caused a full outage rather than the 30-60 second access delays that were anticipated, but at least we knew this was coming. Our host is currently discussing the possibility of moving to a new data center, which may cause another planned outage. I will be sure to announce anything I am made aware of.

New chat interface, and guests can now join the room.

I will probably pass on this one only because I never played the first two. Doesn't make much sense to get into it now without going back to play the others first.

Well, I'm calling it "downtime" more than they are. "During the maintenance period customers may experience slower than normal connections in and out of the server as well as possible 30-60 second time-out delays whilst the upgrade is taking place. " According to the host the sites should remain mostly online but with slowdowns and brief inaccessibility. Won't know until it is happening though exactly how much it will affect the site.