• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

things I learned when XBOX went down

dcc

P-38 nut
those who are more experienced with on-line gaming probably already knew some of these, but I wanted to share some things I learned (or observed) about MSFS as a result of the XBOX servers being down for a bit the other day.


1) if the sim can't log into XBOX (or I supposed more accurately, if one cannot log into XBOX in general) the sim tell you you're offline and ask if you want to continue. If you do, it will load with default settings -- how they were when it was first installed.

2) It follows, then , that user settings must be stored online, because when XBOX was back up all my settings came back (what a relief!)

3) MSFS thought the problem was that I wasn't on the net. All the XBOX app told me was that I couldn't log on and a cryptic error code. It didn't tell me that the problem was at their end. I found out that it was offline by going to the official forums.

4) MSFS problems are not always at my end, or user error :adoration:

- dcc
 
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