Emails

Hey all,

Apart from my mail box is being spammed beyond belief, some of the 'correct' mail is being filtered out. Unfortunatly this was instantly deleted. I am not sure how long this has gone on for, but it would explain the recent downturn in emails.

I am setting up a new system for my emails, once online you will be able to contact me again.

For now, if you need/want to get in touch, please reply to this blog post. The Contact Us page will be modified soon to incorporate the changes.

Appologies, if anyone has sent an email recently, either PM me (Robinb) in the forums. Otherwise, i will get the new contact screen opterational as soonas I can.

Cheers,

Shields Down

Updated Schematics

Call it an early Christmas present - the Schematics & resources pages have been updated to the latest possible version I could find. If you knew how long I have been wanting to do this for, you probably wouldn't be anywhere close.

I am calling this the first step in a long journey. The site is knackered, old, creasing at the seams, but still it stands. And if your reading this, then its still in use - so Thank You!

So apart from long time promises from months back, all I can say is I am still here, I am getting back on track, and if there is one thing I seriously promise, when I relaunch this site, it will come with more goodies then you can shake a stick at!

For now, in case I don't post again, Happy Christmas from the SD team, may Santa et al. bring everything you have ever dreamed of!

Take care,

Robinb
Shields Down
http://twitter.com/shieldsdown for all the latest as it happens!

Been busy...

You may have noticed, the sites not a little outdated? All hell broke recently, and I am still working through the backlog, but I am managing and soon be back on my feet.

All in all, I will be doing a complete re-launch of the site when its back up to date, and with some exciting new features!

More soon, don't want to give it all away now :)

Rb

Tad Busy...

Hey all,

Been a tad busy, work is taking most my time at the moment, so I know there are a lot of things out of date, outstanding and such. It should be settling down soon, and will be re-coding again.

I didn't cater that I would be out of action for 2 hours a day for driving... 2 years ago I was able to do work on the train - last I checked there is no device that would allow me to code whilst driving :( There are rumors of a direct train line from my home town to my place of work - although they have been talking about it for the past 4 years, I ain't expecting anything to happen this side of the century. Currently, it would take 1h50m to get from home to work on train, and then another set back. Great for coding times, but not great for relaxing - also I would be riding close to the last train. Joys!...

I got some other news, but I will post it later.

Take care,

robinb

My Bad...

Hey all,

Currently in Starbucks near my local town. Plan was to take my laptop
and do some work out here whilst I wait for someone to finish work.
Foolishly fotgot to pack it, stupid me. So, no updates his morning,
just a little insight as I am bored out of my mind.

Let's start with planning, something to wet your tastebuds. It's no
secret I have not been about much, and the time I have been about I
had hardware failures - all fixed now, moved away from an svn server
and running it on my localhost. If/when my personal server comes back
online I'll use it as a backup rather then the main content machine.
So, what is planned? First I have a reverification of all existing
content: some of it I'd missing, wrong or currupt. Any help on that
would be awarded :) (HINT)

Next is for new content. I have something I am calling a "secret game"
in construction. Basically you pay ingame credits for a board, and
weekly using a secret calculation it works out how many points you get
for that board. It can edit elements, rotate pieces etc. It's "secret"
as you don't know how the score is worked out. Prizes weekly, monthly
and special occasions. You don't have to wait for the work out to
play, single player will be available. More soon.

Second is one that's already created, but needs tweaking- Slot
machine! Last time my so played it, SD won 1 billion credits in 24
hours. Good news for me, but unfair for you lot. Some tweaking needed
me thinks.

Third, incorporating a new game to Shields Down. If you have a game
(large, small etc) let me know by posting a comment below (click title
to get to comment screen). It will have all the same games in,with
help tools And looking towards inter game trading!! Should be fun.

Forth, Market alerts. If you are after something, and someone puts it
on the pm at a price you are looking for, you will get an email about
it! Simple, plain and maybe your shouting about th GBM - if someone
gas a large request for 10,000 of something, but if want 10 this tool
should help.

Fifth, signiture tools for forums. I am in discussions with Core
Exiles and Transporter Tycoon to see if I can obtain a players
statistics (with the players permission), creating a dynamic pup
signiture so you can add it to core exiles fouls, transported forums
or any others you want. Facebook, myspace, the list goes on.

Sixth, newsletters. You may have noticed that in your settings you get
automatically added to tne mailing list. To keep it all legal,
everyone will be emailed to confirm you want to be added. Anyone who
doesn't will have to change that setting. Newsletter will include
important information, latest news and compertitions. I would strongly
advise signing up for it, the first compettition will be a very big
one!!

Right, wasted an hour and a half in starbucks, almost time to pick
people up. Again, sorry to people with withdraw requests, they will be
done when I get home.

Tell you one thing though, I love this iPhone. Amazing what a small
device can do
Take care all,

Robinb on iPhone, so forgive the mistakes!!

so many things... so little time

Hey all,

Been a tad bit busy recently with a holiday, new job, new car, selling an old car, killing a wasps next and having an operation on my wizdom teeth, all in a very short time.

With that happening, strange things have been happening to Shields Down, - I got a clump of emails in one day dating back 14 days+ (and I check it regularly). likewise, a bot has got access to my email address which is causing havok on my mail filters. I'm processing them all, so anyone who has sent an email i will be in contact with. Meanwhile, I am in the process of creating an intellegent system to filter spam and real messages, should have it operational soon.

There are a lot of withdraw requests (and i see the main lottery was won - well done :) ) - again I have only just been notified so I will sort that out soon.

I am trying to find more hours in the day, and I will find a schedule I can work to. In the mean time the site is not dead, I am not dead and will be back in action soon.

Call this period an 'extended unscheduled' holiday - I'm sure you understand.

Take care all - I'll update soon.

Rb

And back, but backlogged

Hey all, back from my holidays today - been unpacking and getting everything back to how it was before I went away.

Having some severe PC problems at the moment, ranging from random reboots to hal.dll failures. Its strange how a PC can break from being off-line for a fortnight, might be its way of telling me not to go away again!

I have a backlog of emails, and with the Pc problems its slow process of getting them actioned and replied. I am running through them, so please expect a reply in the next few days, if not today.

Right, I am needing to run into town to get a compressed air canister, and a XP recovery CD - one thing I hate about commercial PC's is it only comes with there recovery CD's - no good if you want to get into the XP recovery console. Joys.

Hopefully be fixed soon - Might get a new PSU whilst I am at it - the random reboots are at the same time that the fans loose a bit of power. Chucked on some loggers, see if it is a faulty PSU that's causing the problems.

Back soon,

Rb