already half way through 2010. lots of stuff added to mything.org in the last few months i can’t remember what though so good luck finding it. i am once again trying a content management system to hold all of mything.org, we’ll see how it works. it will need a lot of customization for the content to be at all useful or searchable in meaningful ways.

oh a couple of things,

first, after yahoo pulled the plug on geocities, Pyro’s most excellent ‘Myth Starter Guide’ is now hosted at Mything.org. It’s a great guide he wrote, very useful for newbies and returning players who haven’t played in a while and have forgotten how to connect to mariusnet or how to install the latest version of Myth II. Pyro maintains it and keeps it up to date, mything.org is just the place he publishes it. Happy to have it a part of mything.org. Link is in the sidebar.

second, Soulblaster’s Bag’o'tags site went down apparently for good and no one had a complete backup. major wailing ensued. Godzfire talked to the skywebs powers that be and convinced them to reactivate the site, allowing JonGod, Myself and Melekor to make complete (relatively) backups of the site so it’s saved now. I’ve got a mirror version of the site as of July 2010 up and running.

Speaking of Godzfire, he took the trouble to track down all the readmes to the various versions of Myth II that have been released and sent a zip of them all to me so I could add them to mything.org. w00t! Need more people like Godzfire willing to do the legwork to find stuff and compile in meaningful ways. thanks godz!

here’s the new content mentioned in this post:

Myth starter Guide
Bag’o'tags (the original site back from the dead)
Myth II Readmes

Finally found a gallery solution that was relatively easy to set up. The new Myth Gallery can be viewed here .

The normal caveats apply: This isn’t artwork _I_ have created (at least 99.9% of it has nothing to do with me), it’s myth related things I have collected – screenshots, desktop backgrounds, scans of print ads, artwork produced by Bungie, pictures of retail boxes and CDs, etc.

So the gallery software isn’t perfect, as it doesn’t show desktop pictures at their full hi-rez size, and it enlarges tiny icons so much they are blurry in the thumbnails (but if you click them and click again you see the original image) – but it was much easier to set up and it’s very easy to maintain so those outweigh the negatives. Maybe I’ll get motivated to put up links to the desktop pix and do some screencaps of the icons so they are easier to view.

Maybe.

enjoy.

Summer.Time.

Mything.org is going on hiatus for awhile. For the site to be anywhere near useful, it really needs a major rewrite of some of the core functions – which hasn’t happened in the past 2 years I’ve been thinking about doing them – and since I don’t even time to play in MWC this year, the odds of me finding time to do large work on the site is unlikely at best. So, rather than have this task bugging me because of it’s scope and degree of overdueness, I am instead putting any and all mything.org development work/enhancements/rewrites/etc on hold.

Won’t be much of an impact to anyone, I’ll leave stuff as is for the foreseeable future, and if I ever manage to get the data off the dead Myth partition on my HD I’ll probably add some more content – and maybe at some point in the near future I’ll get enough sleep so that I don’t doze off everytime I sit in front of the computer and will start rewriting my custom scripts. But I doubt any of it will happen, so what you see is what you get.

Happy summer everyone, and gl to all MWC participants.

ps. On a positive note, a long-time Myth developer/site/server-owner has returned from the wastelands with updated versions of Myth III and the M3 mapmaking application “Ballistic”. Better yet? He’s released them to the public and is planning on doing more work on them. Out of the blue he returns after years during which everyone had given up hope of seeing any updates to M3. How cool is that? Very. Welcome back, MB.

Sometimes I forget just how much I hate the aholes in the myth community. Monday thru Friday I work 1.5 jobs, so between commuting and actually working I am out of the house and away from my Myth computer at LEAST 15 hours a day.So that leaves 9 hours a day (24-15) . With a minimum of 6-7 hours for sleeping that leaves only 2-3 hours a day for getting ready for work in the morning, eating breakfast, any shopping, errands, bills I need to do after work, cooking supper, eating supper, catching up on email and maintaining my websites. Despite that schedule I get people who somehow think I am magically able to be actively monitoring / policing the mariusnet gameserver as ‘Om’ – the newish mariusnet admin everyone loves to hate – 24/7. WTH? Maybe in theory on the weekends i could sit in front of my computer for hours at a time IF I wanted to, but during the week? I hardly have time to even play Myth on the weekends – just playing with OoH on Sat night means I have to stay up all night and sleep the next day.

So despite the illogic and impossibility that I could possibly be the person they are talking about, a handful of aholes somehow convinced themselves I am Om so they’ve posted on all the forums and spread the meme that I am him.her.whatever. Now it’s got to the point that I can’t even sit in the lobby without some pathetic unloved-by-his-parents unable-to-get-laid loser taking out his anger at the state of his shitty existence on ME while I sit there not bothering anyone, just waiting for a good coop game to open up so I can play Myth for a couple of hours on my one free afternoon all week. F-ing losers, they sure as hell better HOPE I don’t get admin powers like being able to ban people or I’ll perma-IP-range-ban bitchslap those aholes so fast they won’t even have time to whine about it. If i ever get that kind of admin power, I’ll ban their ISP, their college, their whole friggin state if I have to just to make sure they don’t ever play on the server again.

Goddamn but I hate the pathetic losers who hang out in the myth lobbies talking smack wanna be gangstas with authority issues trying to mask their own self loathing by attacking other people.

F-ing losers.

added a few links to the links page: The (very unfinished) Myth Wiki page, the Winter Series 2 tournament page, and Darth Revan’s map download page.

Also: Added several articles/pages related to Myth 3 in the graveyard (articles) section.

On a related note: Reinstalled Myth 3 and have been playing through the solo levels. It’s a lot more fun than I expected or remembered (from my previous limited playing). Some really interesting/fun maps (Siege of Llancarfan and the Underground Temple map I like) and creative monsters/evil to battle with. Some annoying quirks (the Dorf waddle, the too fluid bouncy-twitch some units do when they are ‘idle’, the narrator’s voice – can’t help compare it to M1 and M2), but overall it’s fun.