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Title: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Kristahfer on November 09, 2016, 07:06:26 AM
Last two days I have been unable to access the Colonial Charter site.


According to what I have found the domain has expired.


Does anyone have any information on the status of this site?

Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Paeng on November 09, 2016, 09:42:23 AM
yeah, I just saw a note on Reddit - apparently they are moving the site to a new provider...

Caught me by surprise same as every body else...  :-X
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: TheOtherMicheal on November 12, 2016, 07:25:06 PM
In something of a coincidence, I just checked the Colonial Charter site and found the domain had expired and was for sale so i was going to post something here and ask if anyone knew what was happening.
So thanks for the info Paeng, I had seriously considered buying the domain for a year and giving it to the CC team so that nobody else could grab it and try to screw money out of them. If they're moving CC to another provider then I don't need to be concerned about the old domain - glad I checked here first! :)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Paeng on November 13, 2016, 02:39:24 AM
Quote from: TheOtherMicheal on November 12, 2016, 07:25:06 PMso that nobody else could grab it

That's good thinking  :)

I have no idea what's behind all this... maybe the account did expire and made the sudden move unavoidable... else I would have expected a little advance notice to the users...  ???

Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Kimbolton on November 13, 2016, 01:40:14 PM
I agree. The lack of any advanced notice to the community was strange and a bit worrisome.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: catty-cb on November 13, 2016, 02:24:32 PM
Quote from: Kimbolton on November 13, 2016, 01:40:14 PM
I agree. The lack of any advanced notice to the community was strange and a bit worrisome.

You usually get a month's warning that your domain name is coming up for renewal so plenty of time to let people know what's happening

-catty
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: TheOtherMicheal on November 13, 2016, 07:14:32 PM
I agree that it's more than a little strange, like catty said there would have been enough warning from the service provider to let the CC team know the domain was due for renewal.
I know the CC team were working on another large scale mod for Banished (if I remember, it was Rise of the Pharaoh) so it seems unusual for them to let their main website just "die" when there was already significant work done on the new mod.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: catty-cb on November 14, 2016, 12:23:58 AM

According to the latest reddit posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/Banished/comments/5bzb3o/colonial_charter_website_is_getting_a_new_home/d9yujms/?st=ivhsixom&sh=5cfd0560

they have a test site up and running, it just seems a very strange way of changing/moving/updating a website ... I did the same a couple of years ago on my own website, but I started way before the old website address had expired, and once the new domain name plus hosting company and website were up and running I set up a redirect on the old site so anyone visiting got directed to the new site ... even so it was quite some time before some of the users made it over to the new site.

Everyone has their own way of doing things but some kind of message at the old site would have been nice.

-catty
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: TheOtherMicheal on November 14, 2016, 04:41:36 AM
Catty, thanks for getting all this extra information  :)
I never thought about checking on reddit because I didn't expect the CC team to make such an announcement there. I would have expected a message on their own website - maybe there was one but I never saw it? I would have expected something really obvious whenever we logged onto the site  ::)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: catty-cb on November 14, 2016, 09:32:03 AM
I'm a bit of a lurker   :-[  and was going thru the forums at the CC site ... it would have been a couple of days before it vanished and while I can't be certain as I didn't read all the topics, I'm pretty certain I would have noticed a post or topic on shutting the site down and starting again somewhere else   :)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: RedKetchup on November 14, 2016, 11:41:12 AM
I FINALLY GOT SOME NEWS ...


RedKetchup447 il y a 1 jour

So Shock, do you have a new link to share? or you will keep the old .com ?


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BL_ShockPuppet CC Dev  il y a 23 heures*


its in development. Gix and I are working on the site these days :) All will be revealed soon
We are porting data over in sql, the test site is up, it has a working chat etc.... we are getting there :)

so give them a couple of days or a week..... they will announce the new website :)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: ShockPuppet on November 14, 2016, 07:07:37 PM
:) Ideally i'd have liked to let everyone know on the forums at CC firstly, but something happened suddenly regarding the previous set up.

This is what happened: I had it written down that the hosting expires end of November, which is true. I forgot that the domain would have already expired by then, so anyway when I went to renew it I was asked for $100 (a penalty of sorts). Basically GoDaddy can go **** themselves, no one is handing over that kind of money to them for a .com

Should I have fixed this all up earlier? Yeah I should have, but CC is not my job, not anyones job, its a hobby. I bought a home (in real life) and have had a stress moving, also at the beach my dog found and ate a fish with the hook still in and has been in hospital etc etc.

So I took this as a fresh opportunity to redevelop the site in a clean, easy way and I must say its looking great now in the tests. I have everyones full CC data secure and encrypted on my own PC, and will just take some time porting it over - problem is new jobs and real life, but we are getting there :)

So, i'll probably do a little something as a thank you to CC people for waiting around xmas, a new animals or something new regarding an existing item (pastures maybe). I'll have to try some new code. Might do a giveaway competition for something nice. We'll see.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: brads3 on November 14, 2016, 08:48:48 PM
ShockPuppet , thank you for the update. you all are missed.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: RedKetchup on November 14, 2016, 09:08:54 PM
Quote from: brads3 on November 14, 2016, 08:48:48 PM
ShockPuppet , thank you for the update. you all are missed.

Thanks you Bro for the news :)
you guys are missing alot to .. a ton of people!
thats celebrity ^^
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: catty-cb on November 15, 2016, 01:56:27 AM
Quote from: ShockPuppet on November 14, 2016, 07:07:37 PM
....So I took this as a fresh opportunity to redevelop the site in a clean, easy way and I must say its looking great now in the tests. I have everyones full CC data secure and encrypted on my own PC, and will just take some time porting it over - problem is new jobs and real life, but we are getting there...

I tried out a number of different forum software packages before I settled on using Joomla for my website, probably can't help if you have any problems getting the site up and running as its been a while since I used anything other than Joomla, but an offer of help is there if you need it.   :)

My site is here

https://city-builders.info/

and my hosting company is HostPapa
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: TheOtherMicheal on November 15, 2016, 03:59:49 AM
Well that is both good and bad news  :-\

Good news that CC still lives on but bad that GoDaddy turned out to be a pack of money-hungry jerks.
And I hope things are settling back to normal for your personal life ShockPuppet.

Thanks for the update and it'll be great to see CC on a new, friendlier server (for both us and you!)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: estherhb on November 15, 2016, 12:17:20 PM
ShockPuppet - thanks for the info.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: DesoPL on November 15, 2016, 12:58:49 PM
Hope CC site will back soon, i kinda can't wait for news for megamod!
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: ShockPuppet on November 20, 2016, 05:20:16 PM
We have a really cool and easy CC downloads section on the new site, it is working well. Shouldnt be too long now.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: catty-cb on November 21, 2016, 01:09:11 AM
good news looking forward to seeing the new site   ;D
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: DesoPL on November 21, 2016, 02:21:26 AM
It's about fucking time! Ozzy Osbourne.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Oenanthe on November 22, 2016, 01:19:26 AM
I have already tried the Megamod as I have Banished through Steam, unfortunately I can't use it.  Due to poor eyesight I have to have the UI at a larger setting than normal and some of the menu icons (particularly for the houses options) went off the edge of the screen and I couldn't access them.  If there was any way these bars could be made double depth so that they fitted on the screen, or a system that meant I could scroll through the ones on the end, I would quickly re install, but I don't know anything about modding and about how much work that would be.  I just thought I would mention it.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: banfan11 on November 22, 2016, 04:36:39 AM
Great news, Shock. Hope your move and your dog are both doing well and we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: ShockPuppet on November 24, 2016, 08:57:57 PM
the new site is up, we are in the process of bring content back over.

If you were an existing member there, then you should get an email. check your spam if its not in your inbox. Otherwise, your member details have been moved to the new site, including your user name and email address. you have a new random password for security reasons, so if you missed the email, just use the Forgot Password feature.

games, colonial charter and MegaMod development site: www.blackliquidsoftware.com

(this is not a spam message lol, sorry to WoB for posting a link)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: RedKetchup on November 24, 2016, 09:54:26 PM
Thanks you shock !
i've put the new link in my shortcuts, thanks you.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Discrepancy on November 30, 2016, 02:40:01 AM
Quote from: Oenanthe on November 22, 2016, 01:19:26 AM
I have already tried the Megamod as I have Banished through Steam, unfortunately I can't use it.  Due to poor eyesight I have to have the UI at a larger setting than normal and some of the menu icons (particularly for the houses options) went off the edge of the screen and I couldn't access them.  If there was any way these bars could be made double depth so that they fitted on the screen, or a system that meant I could scroll through the ones on the end, I would quickly re install, but I don't know anything about modding and about how much work that would be.  I just thought I would mention it.

No doubt you have already seen this, but here, Kralyerg has made this mod to make the toolbars shorter again:
http://blackliquidsoftware.com/index.php?/files/file/56-short-toolbar/ (http://blackliquidsoftware.com/index.php?/files/file/56-short-toolbar/)
Others might be interested.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: kralyerg on December 01, 2016, 04:58:42 AM
Thanks for posting that, @Discrepancy. I had read this comment, and it prompted me to make that addon mod. But then I forgot where I read this, so I couldn't come back to link it. :)
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Oenanthe on December 03, 2016, 01:16:44 PM
Thank you, Kralyerg  and Discrepancy, knowing nothing about modding I had no idea about how much work it would be to create a solution and I know my requirements certainly aren't needed by most players.

I'll see about trying to get it added in tomorrow and give Megamod a try again.
Title: Re: Colonial Charter Site Not Accessable
Post by: Oenanthe on December 04, 2016, 10:46:08 AM
All loaded up and working wonderfully.

Looks like I might be starting a new game soon to see what I can do with Megamod.

Thank you to all involved.