Well, the repairs to my laptop took a little longer than expected
because somebody at Hewlett-Packard felt the need to reformat my hard
drive while they were repairing the monitor. I had about 50 GB on this
laptop, about 5 GB of which were MxO screenshots dating all the way
back to the beta test, and all of it was deleted. Needless to say, I
was more than a little angry.
Fortunately, I had backed up some of my screenshots, including the
first half of the beta screenshots (which I totally forgot about until
I stumbled upon them yesterday), and Best Buy was able to run data
recovery and piece together about half of the rest from the live game.
I also had a lot of other important files copied onto my brother's
computer beforehand, so basically, I didn't lose much, despite all
those 50 GB that were lost.
Anyway, I'm repatching the game at the moment, and I'll be updating The
MxO Archive over the next few weeks, as well as catching up on the
backlog of e-mail and journal entries that have piled up. I probably
won't be able to put quite as much time into MxO as I have in the past,
but I'll definitely still be involved.
I'm also interested to know what's been going on these past two months.
Apparently there haven't been any new live events, and I'll be catching
up on the criticals as soon as the patch is done, but what else has
developed in the game since I left? Anything new to complain about? Any
chance of the old forums being archived? Anybody know any way to make
1,161 MB download any faster?
Hope to see everyone again soon!
because somebody at Hewlett-Packard felt the need to reformat my hard
drive while they were repairing the monitor. I had about 50 GB on this
laptop, about 5 GB of which were MxO screenshots dating all the way
back to the beta test, and all of it was deleted. Needless to say, I
was more than a little angry.
Fortunately, I had backed up some of my screenshots, including the
first half of the beta screenshots (which I totally forgot about until
I stumbled upon them yesterday), and Best Buy was able to run data
recovery and piece together about half of the rest from the live game.
I also had a lot of other important files copied onto my brother's
computer beforehand, so basically, I didn't lose much, despite all
those 50 GB that were lost.
Anyway, I'm repatching the game at the moment, and I'll be updating The
MxO Archive over the next few weeks, as well as catching up on the
backlog of e-mail and journal entries that have piled up. I probably
won't be able to put quite as much time into MxO as I have in the past,
but I'll definitely still be involved.
I'm also interested to know what's been going on these past two months.
Apparently there haven't been any new live events, and I'll be catching
up on the criticals as soon as the patch is done, but what else has
developed in the game since I left? Anything new to complain about? Any
chance of the old forums being archived? Anybody know any way to make
1,161 MB download any faster?
Hope to see everyone again soon!
