I know you have been waiting long and patiently for a working Clan System, you may also have seen me asking for clan leaders to contact me to help me test it out.I spent a couple of hours the other day and last week making some much needed tweaks to Spark-Stuff.Saw something cool on Spark-Stuff? Want to share what's going on in Spark with your Spark friends? How about an easy to way to promote spark on Facebook, Twitter, Bebo or one of 224 other social network sites?Did you know a Giraffe can clean it's own ears out with it's 14 inch tongue?News for all!My apologies to all of you who were affected by this weekends DNS mix-up. My previous host HostingZoom finally tipped me over the brink, but as I stood atop Tower Bridge I thought to myself... what of the people of Spark?SWAT, a group of sparkers dedicated to makign Spark easier for new players, and better for old players bring us this week the first Video Tutorial to ease new players into Spark.The DC hub has served us thousands of games during it's two year life. It started out as the Arcers.net rogue server which I took control of in the final year of ARC. After the closure of ARC and the birth of Spark I transformed the server to be .... Read More...We have released a big new version of the Spark portal and Spark-HQ website! Check them out now!After the many problems we've had with Spark-Stuff.net and Spark-Clans.net I've moved them to a different server where we should have less problems.I'm not going to make any promises, because life wont let me! But I've been getting excited lately and thought you lot deserve a bit of the fun.We seem to be having no end of problems here. This, I really hope, should be the last!Due to hosting the temp forums here at Spark-Stuff I've used up my bandwidth limit a couple of time recently.FingerS and BraVeHearT are kindly supplying us with a brand new hub for your keen Sparking pleasure.Now, when I say exciting I don't mean brand new gameplay features, magic tricks or porn.Word is it'll be another week before Spark-HQ is back online. The downtime is due to the rapid disappearance of Remotes servers - leaving us hanging in a void until CrazyMofo's new site is ready.The deal has been done, and Spark is now in the hands of the admin team.RareOps has confirmed that the deal is done and they soon will be in control of Spark!Remote appears to have woken up this morning and shut down Spark. Nobody I have spoken to had any warning.Remote's latest twitter suggests that we may one day enjoy the pro's and con's of an open source lobby.Remote, the CodeMallet big cheese and sole developer of Spark, has started Twitter'ing his thoughts - thoughts I think are worth hearing.Spark-Tube launched about a month ago, and have been recording and collecting spark videos for the entertainment, archive and viewping pleasure of existing spark players as well as the promotion of Spark accross the web.It's that time of the month again where the DC bill is up for paying!The Guide+ team have been talking, and Wave and I have been working together the past few days to bring some more colour and life to the spark-hq website. We now have a sexy new welcome banner on the home page and a nicer logo up top. We are going to .... Read More...I would like to expand my collection of articles for the benefit of new (and existing) players. So I am looking for writers and players who know their game or have a good, useful, amusing strategy or spark story to share with the world. It dosen' .... Read More...As of Saturday Evening DC 2 is up and running again, many thanks to those who have donated over the past few days - we now have enough donations to keep us going for one month. Donate now to secure DC for longer!
[url=http://www.spark-stuff.net/donations/]www.spark-stuff.net/donations/[/url]Thanks to a couple of last minute donations DC should be up for most of March. There will still be some downtime whilst money transfers out of paypal and then into the billing account for the server, b .... Read More...On the 26th of February the DC hub will close, due to lack of funds to keep it running. DC has been running purely off donations to the Spark-Stuff pot for the past three months but unfortunately these have died out and there is no longer enough to r .... Read More...Once again I am scraping the bottom of the donations pot to keep the DC hub running!The donations pot is running very dry, we have just enough to cover the cost for DC2 this month.At the end of this month the AU hub will be closing. Boltz has kept it running for the past 6 months and countless Aussies have enjoyed lag free games, unfortunately the majority of our players are in America and therefore for a busy game the Aussies .... Read More...Welcome to the new server, everything should be transfered over correctly and working nicely.Finally, many months after agreeing to it the Spark-Stuff.net and Spark-Clans.net hosting options are going to be merged, this will mean that either Birdman or myself will be able to set you up with some free hosting for spark-related sites at each o .... Read More...You may have noticed that recently updates have slowed down, and wondered why.I have used some of the money donated by Sparkers to pay the October bills for the DC hub!
Huge thanks to those who have donated, DC is running because of you!
Want to contribute? See this page for more information: www.spark-stuff.net/donationsAs you may have known Kahn has been funding the DC hub for the past few months, unfortunately he seems to have disappeared and so I am in a position again where I need to find some funding for the hub. A few days ago the new Spark Patch made by Wave was released as an update. Having been released a few weeks ago on the forum - and a few months ago amongst the staff - it is the result of a lot of work, feedback and re-work and we hope you like it!Whilst the title sounds really big, impressive and cool... it's really not that exciting ;)With over 8 years of webdesign experience, and a design company of his own Myst has been a long time fan of Spark and ARC before it. So if your in need of help with your website, trying to make that xHTML validate, can't figure out that PHP bug, or n .... Read More...As you have no doubt noticed by now Spark is offline. There is a problem with the server that hosts the lobby, which is the same server which hosts the Clan System page - hence that's offline too.Last night 8 new community members were appointed Guide positions, and several of the existing staff have moved up in ranks.Many thank's to DestenE for providing us with a hub located in NY! It is setup to allow up to 4 games to be created.
Any feedback from your experiences playing in this, or any hub, will be more than appreciated by their hosts!k0rrupt Wrote:A few clans have gone over thiir free hosting bandwidth limit of 100mb this month so I have increased the bandwidth to 200mb and the disk space to 70mb.Rage has posted to let us know he has fixed the clan system! I have not yet tested it myself so anyone with any feedback is welcome :)
spark-hq.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3195Spark is back online, the lobby server had bugged out and crashed 
It would appear that, for a time atleast, when the lobby server is down any games already happening still run ok. Which is handy The lobby appears to still be offline, Remote has not been around since last morning which would be why he has not been able to restart it.It's not been a great week for spark so far, we've had problems with the clan system twoce, the bug tracker's down and now the lobby seems to be offline.I've created a map of the world which shows where abouts in the world Sparkers are from. You can see it here:
www.spark-stuff.net/profile/ammap/I'm pleased to announce that we have setup another Hub in Dallas, unfortionatly Dest's hub has been offline for a little while and Danksta has offered us a different server. The new Dallas server will run up to 6 games.Remote has just released an update to Spark to enhance the security and fix some of the holes which Empty has identified. There will be a few more updates over the next few days, hopefully these wont inturrupt games too much. As of this morning, LineOf7s has resigned as a Spark Admin.Just a quick note to let you know that DC is back up and running.As you may remember about this time last month I posted to say that I would be closing the DC server about now due to the running costs.I'm pleased to announce that an Australian hub has been launched! Located in Victoria this should provide much better pings for our growing aussie community!The clan system is back up, and can be accessed at http://www.codemallet.com/~clans.Spark is currently down... but nobody's sure why Remote should be available to fix all our woes soon!K0rrupt Wrote:As you have no doubt noticed, Spark is currently offline. I'm not sure why, but I'll post here again as soon as I find out! The error you should be getting isFollowing recent issue regarding the future of Spark, Spark is now back online Welcome to Spark-Stuff!
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