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If You're HyperJumping to Dankoville...

12/30/2014

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.

Intro to Dankoville

12/26/2014

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...

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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.

Back Already

12/22/2014

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

Offline Until Further Notice

12/16/2014

So much for that idea.
All out of ideas.

Change in plans

12/15/2014

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.

Test-Driving Dankoville on Atek Grid

12/5/2014

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

If You're HyperJumping to Dankoville...

Intro to Dankoville

Back Already

Offline Until Further Notice

Change in plans

Test-Driving Dankoville on Atek Grid

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