CLOK services have been discontinued. Source code and database files have been transferred to Rias and Noctere. The leased server that runs this BBS, the clokmud.com email , and the CLOK website will be decommissioned at the end of the month. Thank you all for your time playing the game over the pas...

Don't lump Noctere in with me, that's not fair to him.

I'm the bottleneck here, Noctere has nothing to do with it.

Our hosting provider is conducting network infrastructure maintenance early tomorrow morning/later tonight. From the email they sent me, it seems like it's mostly impacting the provider's services such as account management and stuff, though it is in the same datacenter where our server is physicall...

Hey J. I was looking at the bbs.clokmud.com address (the one I was referencing in my post) and it looks like the language is the same. I checked bbs.contrarium.net and I saw the different language there. I honestly don't know enough about website creation/ownership to know the difference between th...

I don't really get it, but I removed the wording on bbs.contrarium.net and just simplified it. It's something I originally threw together in about 10 seconds without any thought, I'm not sure what kinda meaning was read into it, but with the new simplified landing page, it should be better now, I gu...

From now until September 22nd, enjoy the following: The number of online players required to activate population-based bonuses has been decreased from 5 to 3. The amount of bonus per online player over the population threshold has been increased from 5% to 10%. The maximum possible population-based ...

The wording when you pay changes depending on if you've fully paid it off or still have partial debt left. Its left intentionally vague to allow people to overpay and get more riln out of the system, but if you pay close attention to how they react when you pay it should be obvious. To be slightly ...

New Survey up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... sp=sf_link

Feel free to participate if desired. It's totally optional, but your feedback is appreciated!

I've decided to put this project on hold for now. I would rather be working on releasing new content and improvements to CLOK, the kind that are actually visible and meaningful to the player base, rather than chasing after a shiny new server. I've run into roadblock after roadblock in setting up the...

I have reverted all the email changes I made since June 24. CLOK email should again be fully available, all the staff email boxes have been restored. We're again hosting our own email services, and running through a third party made sending outgoing email far too complicated.

For those interested, I spent a couple hours this morning getting my VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) network configured and successfully routed traffic from my internal game server through my public gateway. Yay, progress. Next step: Figure out how to route HTTP/HTTPS traffic from the gateway to a web s...

So, rather than having a set day where I'm going to say "CLOK is going to be down for a whole day while I move the server", I'm going to set up the new servers parallel to the existing one, make a copy of everything, thoroughly test it out and make sure it works, and then when we're ready,...

Hey all. By no means begging for donations, CLOK is my hobby and I am glad to support it. However, as we are in the process of transitioning to a new server, I'd like to explain exactly where any CLOK money is going presently. If anyone would like to help out, you are welcome to visit https://www.pa...

Server-generated emails are currently not being sent. I will attempt to reconfigure these later today.

Due to some personal health issues, I'm not anywhere nearly as prepared for this transition as I should be, it'll have to be postponed to next weekend. (July 3rd)

Email is back up and running.

Note that individual team member addresses are no longer valid. All email should be routed through the general support address.

In preparation for the server move, I am setting up a new mail provider. All clokmud.com email addresses will be unavailable until we fully transition to the new server.

Update: The original post has been edited to reflect the correct date of JUNE 26th, not MARCH 26th. Sorry!

The CLOK server will be brought offline for transition to new services this Saturday morning. I hope to have services restored Saturday evening or Sunday morning at the latest.

I've released a quick survey, feel free to contribute if you want. Your feedback is appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... sp=sf_link

Better late than never... this weekend has been busy. Everyone who has been waiting on BBS password resets should be taken care of now, if you have somehow been missed, please email me again. Something wonky happened when I moved the BBS from bbs.contrarium.net to clok.contrarium.net/bbs, I had to r...

Just a quick update, I see the emails that have come in the last few days. I'll be working on them after work and dinner tonight (in about 14 to 15 hours from now) I think everyone has already been squared away, but for people having any sort of account issue in the future, be it BBS or CLOK, please...

I would like to humbly request that people please quit attacking Shadgard. The fact that I put (what I felt like was) an unreasonable amount of guards and snipers in the canyon should have been a clear indicator that we kinda wanted it to be left alone. Much like the overwhelming number of canim in ...

And I will add, it is perfectly acceptable for a Claw to kill someone, PC or NPC, who comes between them and their mark, that is expected behavior of them and within acceptable boundaries for CvC conflict. Though, if the only reason you're coming between them and their mark is because you know it's ...

I think this post needs a bump. People seem to forget over the years. Don't do this, seriously. Don't.