I'm a bit slow on the draw with this one, but it's a development that's definitely front page news: Barry Brien has posted nearly three dozen new shots from the Xizor's Web, the fourth installment in the Dark Tide series.

Head on over to the forums to check them out.

Which was my fault for leaving the default database location as "localhost" in a phpbb config file, instead of changing it to 127.0.0.1 as our hosts tell you to in their hosting FAQs. :-O

Apologies to anyone who couldn't log on during the last 24 hours, the forums are once again fully operational (witness their power etc).

Geoffrey Simpson has uploaded Mantell, a mission he worked on in 2001. There are no enemies here and very little INF, but there is a good deal of quality architecture (as also seen in Imperial Station B-24).

Geoffrey has also invited anyone who's interested in further editing the level to feel free to do so.

Is out.

Barry Brien is in the hot seat for this episode, and if his Coruscant is anything like his Nar Shaddaa, then you're in for a treat.

Download it here: http://df-21.net/downloads/missions/dtide4.zip

See what others have said, and post your own review here: http://www.df-21.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1138

As mentioned in the forums, I have now set up a Paypal account for those wonderful shiny people amongst you who would like to donate money towards the cost of running this site.

To make a donation, select the cryptically-named "Make a Donation" button on the left, or see this page for more information and options.

Please let me know if you have any difficulty using the Paypal site, or if you have any ideas/suggestions.

Thanks!

Paul/Fenwar

PS - This weekend (16-17th November) I will be moving the site to a new, cheaper host. The site might therefore be inaccessible for a short time over the weekend as the nameservers change; apologies in advance.

We have now moved to a brand new server hosted by Dixie Systems.

Everything seems to be in working order. Please note that the forums are no longer at forums.df-21.net but are to be found at www.df-21.net/phpbb. The projects database has also been restored and that section should be working as normal.

So, what have I missed?

There are probably a few broken links or missing uploads dotted around - let me know what needs fixing.

Thanks,

Paul/Fenwar

Apparently our project script (easyhost.cgi) was killing the server and using 3.3GB of RAM! It has been turned off for now, although the project pages are still available authors will not be able to log in to them.

We are planning an alternative approach to projects which will materialise shortly.

Paul