The tracker and the webtracker are both unavailable for nearly two days now. Are there any news why or any information when it will be restarted?

For those who do not know it: you can play without using the tracker by using GameRanger ( (url="http://"http://www.gameranger.com/")http://www.gameranger.com/(/url) ) or you can play by connecting directly (join private) to your opponent using her/his IP-address. Of course you have to arrange a time by mail or IM (e.g. iChat) and exchange the addresses before.

If you do not know your IP-Address you can look it up here: (url="http://"http://pop-pop.webhop.net/displayip.php")http://pop-pop.webho...t/displayip.php(/url)

See you soon somewhere in pop-pop-space.

BTW @Ambrosia: the link to the webtracker on the top of the web-board is still out of date.

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(This message has been edited by Hyko (edited 04-04-2004).)

Let's hope it's back up before 18th April.

Will it be up before the tourney?

Hello Ambrosia!?

Is there anybody left who is interested in pop-pop? Or who will give your customers the honor to know something about the problem and your plans to solve it?

I will post a mail on the beta-mailinglist. Maybe there is somebody who is interested in the problem...

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Originally posted by Hyko:
**I will post a mail on the beta-mailinglist. Maybe there is somebody who is interested in the problem...

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It looks as if the mail has done its duty: the tracker is online again. thx

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Originally posted by Hyko:
**BTW @Ambrosia: the link to the webtracker on the top of the web-board is still out of date.
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BTW: This is still the same...
Are there any moderators left for this uninteresting small pop-pop board?

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(This message has been edited by Hyko (edited 04-21-2004).)

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Originally posted by Hyko:
**BTW: This is still the same...
Are there any moderators left for this uninteresting small pop-pop board?

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I doubt it.

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Originally posted by Hyko:
**BTW: This is still the same...
Are there any moderators left for this uninteresting small pop-pop board?

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If I were you, I'd email andrew. Moderators definitely do check this board, but unfortunately we don't have the power to modify the boards themselves, only the posts within.

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He is not a fundamentalist jew
As hard as that is to believe

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Originally posted by Hyko:
**BTW: This is still the same...
Are there any moderators left for this uninteresting small pop-pop board?

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And then...

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I doubt it.
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Yes, a moderator checks this board almost daily, so pepperjack, you're wrong.
Unfortunately, I expect people to act as professionals when alerted to a problem. I posted a note concerning the link to both David and Tom. I won't make excuses for them

I'll send the email again, but really, it is a minor thing.

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If I were you, I'd email andrew.**

Oh geeze, leave el presidente alone. Do you realize how much email the man gets? No wonder he misses things cause he has to plow through all the little emails from everyone on these board with any little problem that bothers them.

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If you think I'm being mean, please tell me. I was actually going for NASTY!!

Sorry about the hassle, but the board is rather dead. Not that it's your fault though.

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Originally posted by jinx:
**Yes, a moderator checks this board almost daily, so pepperjack, you're wrong.
Unfortunately, I expect people to act as professionals when alerted to a problem. I posted a note concerning the link to both David and Tom. I won't make excuses for them

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I'll send the email again, but really, it is a minor thing.**
**Oh geeze, leave el presidente alone. Do you realize how much email the man gets? No wonder he misses things cause he has to plow through all the little emails from everyone on these board with any little problem that bothers them.

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I do not really understand if "I expect people to act as professionals when alerted to a problem" is pro or against me, but thank you for answering and trying to solve this minor problem. For those who are new to pop-pop and who do not know that it is an outdated link, it would be helpful to be guided to the correct tracker...

Anyway. Cu there...

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(This message has been edited by Hyko (edited 04-24-2004).)

No Hyko, it was not.

It was directed at those whom I've already alerted to this problem, and my frustration at their not doing something, nor even acknowledging it. Course, I do realize these people have TONS of other things to do that are more important, like processing orders and solving true support problems for their products.

What I wish is some Moderators could be able to make these simple html changes.

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If you think I'm being mean, please tell me. I was actually going for NASTY!!

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Originally posted by jinx:
**No Hyko, it was not.

It was directed at those whom I've already alerted to this problem, and my frustration at their not doing something, nor even acknowledging it. Course, I do realize these people have TONS of other things to do that are more important, like processing orders and solving true support problems for their products.

What I wish is some Moderators could be able to make these simple html changes.

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Ok, I've got it now. Thanks for trying to solve it.

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Originally posted by pepperjack:
Sorry about the hassle, but the board is rather dead. Not that it's your fault though.

i really wonder why that is - remember the "good old times" when there was nightlife (bar) a club of ambitious young creatives writing stories about ducky and friends, discussion, parties, arguments, and serious romance going on on this board? there must have been a thread i missed that was so deeply moving and intellectual that it triggered an epidemic of people getting jobs, learning for college or falling in love...

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(This message has been edited by lumisa (edited 05-11-2004).)

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Originally posted by lumisa:
**i really wonder why that is - remember the "good old times" when there was nightlife (bar) a club of ambitious young creatives writing stories about ducky and friends, discussion, parties, arguments, and serious romance going on on this board? there must have been a thread i missed that was so deeply moving and intellectual that it triggered an epidemic of people getting jobs, learning for college or falling in love...

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(x) people getting jobs
(x) learning for college
(x) falling in love...

(x) = example known to author

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Originally posted by Hyko:
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Originally posted by lumisa:
**i really wonder why that is - remember the "good old times" when there was nightlife (bar) a club of ambitious young creatives writing stories about ducky and friends, discussion, parties, arguments, and serious romance going on on this board? there must have been a thread i missed that was so deeply moving and intellectual that it triggered an epidemic of people getting jobs, learning for college or falling in love...

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(x) people getting jobs
(x) learning for college
(x) falling in love...

(x) = example known to author
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...all of which can be short-lasting...let´s hope for the best, for pop-pops sake...

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...all of which can be short-lasting...let´s hope for the best, for pop-pops sake...
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I think, the second major reason, after the wrong link to the webtracker, why so many old people do not like pop-pop anymore is pop-pop's age and a resulting secondary growth problem. Look, the average age of player's seems to be above 25 and many of them are over the line of becoming rusty and slow. Except one 8 and a ~15 year old there is no promising "procreation" known to me
Ok there are some mothers and fathers playing but they were all except one not able to enthuse their children to playing pop-pop and this means that pop-pop dies out like crochet clubs in Baden-Württemberg.

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Not to mention the simple fact that most online gamers prefer their first person shooters & 3D graphics.

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Originally posted by eccles:
**Not to mention the simple fact that most online gamers prefer their first person shooters & 3D graphics.

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But if you have a very close look on the bricks, you can see that they are slightly three-dimensional

But you are right. Pop-pop ist not so attractive for the mass but for some crazy like us

BTW: my favourite 3D first and third-person shooter is the upcoming game Worms3D which AFAIK is even playable as multiplayer over the web The demo is fun already... we will see...

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(This message has been edited by Hyko (edited 05-12-2004).)

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Originally posted by Hyko:

**BTW: my favourite 3D first and third-person shooter is the upcoming game Worms3D which AFAIK is even playable as multiplayer over the web:) The demo is fun already... we will see...

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Yeah, if I only had a powerful enough Mac to run it on :frown: ... in the meantime, I've booted up OS 9 and had some fun with the original Worms (it doesn't run quite as smoothly under Classic)... Even today, Worms 2D remains a lot of fun to play. Many of the best games I've enjoyed had no need for 3D graphics.

I still run a G4/400 here. Four years old now & still performing quite well for me. Runs Panther, runs Photoshop, plays DVDs, many of today's peripherals can still plug into it, and I have no need for many of the latest games.... I somehow think it's people like me that contribute to the Mac's low market share; we just don't tend to replace our machines as often as most PC users...

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