Engine Room

We are currently optimizing our cache system to increase performance.


Please post any feedback relating to page load times here..

Link node is offline while we do some bug hunting..

Quick note about Steam,

Invalid profile data" or other errors occur when the AJAX calls fails when trying to contact the "steamprofile" library on Steam.

We are working on resolving this issue, thank you for your patience.

Valve is changing their API and also adding a rate limit for xml requests.

We will be dropping Steam authorization and login soon, so please make sure you update your password in your account for standard login, or switch to one of the other login options.

Steam is now inactive.

Working on forum restructuring, merging, optimizing and new categories. A list of what went where will be posted below;

Article Node Discussion > Mass Effect 3 General Discussion

ME3 HTL War Room > HTL War Room

Artistic Integrity Department > Creative - Art and Media

Data Pad > Writing - Canon, Fan-Fic

General Moderating, redirects

The Media system/page may be off-line tomorrow while we upgrade and change its functionality. This does not apply to embedded thread media.

More work on optimizing our cache system, debug AJAX and other exciting things today.

We are optimizing our database today for more performance, this may require several reboots of the server.

More core structure to support the additional features in the HTL - Blueprint is going in today. Optimization and rebuild of the cache, search and thread structure will also be done.

Donation manager is down while we update it to work with the new PayPal revisions. Other bug hunting/fixing in progress.

Allot of code went in today, please report any and all bugs.

Running the new and possibly not completely stable version of php to get around some bugs, coding and design issues, again please report any bugs or issues.

With this weeks development cycle, we will be bringing the article/review/guide system online late tonight or sometime tomorrow.

A rebuild of user cache will be done after the live update, hot fix some minor bugs.

Delayed until Monday, we have some automation and permission problems that need to be sorted out before it goes live...also added in a few new features.

New code going in tonight and tomorrow. Please report any issues, problems or bugs if found.

The Game Node - Article game review and guide system is now open BETA.

Please review the posted guide before use and report any issues or bugs.

The forum user avatar on latest post is being reworked and should be back once it is finished.

Russian Ward; we are looking into the language characters displaying incorrectly.