Check your batteries and round-up your flashlights and candles. Tune your radio to KROW, the Voice of the Prairie for updates and the best in classic country songs. Good luck, neighbor.
FYI: A strong winter storm is approaching the RL home of Dankoville's power source. If a local power outage hits, the Dankoville sims could be down for a few hours to several days.
Check your batteries and round-up your flashlights and candles. Tune your radio to KROW, the Voice of the Prairie for updates and the best in classic country songs. Good luck, neighbor. We are in the early stage of developing roleplay and writing about Dankoville. The Dankoville Story Group has a members-only website to coordinate our activities and post background info. There is now an inworld group as well.
Coming soon: information for RPers and writers will soon be added inworld in the Dankoville Information Center at the main arrival point in Dankoville as well as on an island in the Dankoville Transfer Station region. Stay tuned. If you're interested in RP or writing in Dankoville, contact Danko Whitfield inworld in WestWorld or via Google+. WestWorld grid has updated its login and HG addresses. Here are the new HG addresses for Dankoville regions...
If you're coming from a standard region, it is strongly suggested you use the Dankoville Transfer Station... http://westworldgrid.com:8102/ dankoville transfer station If you're feeling lucky, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go directly to Dankoville, a varregion... http://westworldgrid.com:8102/ dankoville I can't state this conclusively yet as more testing is necessary but my preliminary findings are:
If you HG from a standard region to my sims on WestWorld, it is much better to go to the Dankoville Transfer Station region first than to the Dankoville region directly. When you get there, Click the sign for the LM to Dankoville and use that LM. It's a quicker trip - and much more likely to go through on the first try. Dankoville Transfer Station is a standard region... http://tanglegrid.net:8102/ dankoville transfer station If you do wish to go directly to Dankoville, a varregion, my experience is that the HG TP times out on the first try almost every time. But if you wait about ten seconds and try again, it works on the second try almost every time.... http://tanglegrid.net:8102/ dankoville I will follow up on this when I get a chance to test further. Thanks to Shaun Emerald for advising me to include the transfer station and where to place it on the grid. Cross-posted from my blog, "Journey To The Center Of the Metaverse"
I've just this week relocated Dankoville to a brand new virtual world called WestWorld. Here are the HG addresses... Dankoville is a varregion... http://tanglegrid.net:8102/ dankoville If you need a standard region to make the jump, here's the nearby Dankoville Transfer Station... http://tanglegrid.net:8102/ dankoville transfer station Yes, the addresses are correct. WestWorld is co-owned with Tangle grid but they are two separate grids. Today I want to share with you an introduction to Dankoville that I wrote a few months back for the Dankoville Story Group which has a members-only website with background on the story of Dankoville... *** The purpose of Dankoville grid I made this grid as a setting for one of the storylines on my IC blog, The Further Adventures Of Danko Whitfield, Semi-Retired Time Traveller. I opened it to Hypergrid so the curious could visit. I didn't expect other RPers or writers to join me here. What a nice surprise! And fun!! As the grid is open to tourists and virtual world explorers who want to look around or even hang out without any interest in RP whatsoever, we are not a strict roleplay sim. Not at all. We are always OOC here unless we mutually decide otherwise. That can be a formally set time to RP or it can be a spur of the moment thing. General overview of the Dankoville grid and its use in story Genre: Small town life, Farm life Our stories take place in Strange County, somewhere in the Corn Belt of the United States. We focus on the lives of the people who live, work, do business, play or visit in Dankoville, the third largest town in the county. The time is the present day. Rule #1 We NEVER identify what state Dankoville is in, it's just somewhere in the Corn Belt. To answer the Bob Dylan Question - "How does it feeeeeel?" Think of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois. Not the big cities in those states but the rural, smaller places. Very small. Even more specifically about the feel of it...when I need a name of a person or place or I need to know the regional term for something or other "cultural" questions, I research South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. For awhile I didn't even identify whether it was in the US or Canada but then a plotline led me to have to claim Dankoville for the United States. Yes, someday I may have to declare a state as well but I hope not. And until that day, always refer to Rule #1. Time Travel The existence of time travel is accepted as fact by most people in Dankoville but generally not a topic of conversation in polite company. I'll write a separate post about this and link it here when I do. I want you to be aware of this element as it is part of my main character's story BUT I don't want to emphasize it because it's not what Dankoville is about. As a resident of the area or even a regular visitor, you would know of the Whitfield family. But you certainly wouldn't be talking to them about time travel (unless you are a time traveller) and vice versa. You'd talk about...farming, the weather, the high school basketball team, life in these parts in these times. Time travel is actually quite important to the town's history but that's still not what our RP is about. It's about life in a small town in a rural area in the present day. A family of time travellers just happens to live here. But their day job? Farming. Unexpectedly, Dankoville is back online today, connected to the new WestWorld grid. Testing is underway and we are open to visitors. Check the Grid Status page for updates.
hg address: http://tanglegrid.net:8102/ dankoville I'm preparing Dankoville to return to the hypergrid this week, reverting to it's previous operation using New World Studio on OpenSim 0.7.5.
Watch the Grid Status page for updates. UPDATE: Tests completed successfully. Bug squashed with assistance from Atek Grid Owner Leslie Kling.
Dankoville is reopened and visitors are welcome. I will be test-driving it over the next couple of days, doing the kinds of normal testing one does once everything is working. I'll post an update in the coming days. Meantime, c'mon over. Dankoville, a varregion... http://grid.atekgrid.com:8002/ dankoville if necessary, here is a nearby standard-sized region... Dankoville Transfer Station http://grid.atekgrid.com:8002/ dankoville transfer station A brief update...
Dankoville has been connected to the new Atek Grid and I am now conducting tests and tracking down bugs. You are welcome to visit and explore during testing. I have updated the Hypergrid Address page on this site. See the Grid Status page for any updates on extended downtime during testing. |
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