News: Website Update
News Update
Good morning all
The Merlin has been successfully moved to our new hosting site - Stormy hosting. As with any major site change, there are bound to be some minor teething issues. If anyone has any problems accessing the site, please let me know so we can investigate the problem.…
Author: Captain Melody Jones
Posted on: Thursday 23 July 2020 @ 05:11
Category: Website Update
IMPORTANT INFORMATION*** New web hosting***
******IMPORTANT********PLEASE READ*********
Evening all
With the news that Utopia host is shutting down, the Merlin site is being moved to Stormy hosting. To facilitate this move, the site will be down from Tuesday 21/07/2020 0900 BST to Wednesday 22/07/2020 0900 BST. This is so all files can be backed…
Author: Captain Melody Jones
Posted on: Monday 20 July 2020 @ 17:29
Category: Website Update
Merlin Database
Hey uys,
In doing some research for our current plot I ended up finding and getting access to the old Obsidian Fleet Wiki, at least parts of it. So, what I've been doing is putting the major powers in our database. It isn't all the powers on the list, but,…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 26 September 2018 @ 18:59
Category: Website Update
Uniforms!
Hey All,
As you've seen I have been updating the site over the last few weeks. Some things I didn't put out so as not to spam everyone is I created several animated gifs for the crew manifest. Another thing I've done is finally gotten all the uniform pictures updated…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 9 July 2018 @ 14:35
Category: Website Update
Fleet News - Updated
Hey All,
I decided to move the fleet news items into tabs to keep things from looking cluttered. So, look for it with the other news and log posts at the bottom of the control panel and main page under the tab "News Around the Fleet'.
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 5 July 2018 @ 01:00
Category: Website Update
Fleet News Feed
Hey Guys,
Part of what I'm doing as TGCO that overlaps with Merlin is creating news stories for both sims and non-player ships/bases. The idea is to give snippets from the bigger universe that might trickle into the sim, for example there is one soon to be published about a…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 4 July 2018 @ 09:54
Category: Website Update
New Tweak
Hey Guys,
Since I'm using a mod that displays the ship alert, MD, system status, etc, I went ahead and added the infobox (that box that's usually on the left with your character picture, facebook, etc) to the control panel page :). I figured this would help a bit as…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 28 June 2018 @ 16:20
Category: Website Update
Updates, Updates, Updates
Hey Guys,
Over the last few months I've been going through and updating all the links, database, etc. I think I finally got everything except for the Marine equipment (I need to track that information down)! If you spot any links I missed please let me know, otherwise, have at…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 21 June 2018 @ 19:21
Category: Website Update
Important - Site Outage
Hey All,
The site host is going to be migrating their servers starting tomorrow. During this time the site will be unavailable. This will last until, at most, Monday. Due to this I am going to be putting the site in maintenance mode so that I can do a final…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 7 June 2018 @ 18:59
Category: Website Update
Update Complete - Privacy Policy and Site Version
Hey All,
The update has been completed and all skins now contain a link to the GDPR policy updates that put us in compliance with UK Law :D. You may now go back to your regularly scheduled logging!!
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 27 May 2018 @ 04:57
Category: Website Update
Back in Action
Hey Guys,
We are now back up and running at www.use-merlin.com! I just had to recreate the account due to a typo in the original URL.
Thanks to a generous donation by one of our simmers, who approached me last night, the server has been paid until July 2017! A…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Tuesday 26 July 2016 @ 06:19
Category: Website Update
Mobile Site Skin
Hey Guys,
I did some looking around and I found a skin for use with our site that has been made to work on mobile platforms (ie your phone). I'm not going to change the main site, however, this skin is in the system.
Once you log in, scroll down…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 21 July 2016 @ 06:08
Category: Website Update
New Rank Images
Hey All,
I put together a set of new rank images - found some blanks on kurorpg and combined some of them and used a combo of pips I had done with the duty uniform and kuro pips to make the collars match OF's uniforms in the OF wiki. I…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 10 July 2016 @ 10:33
Category: Website Update
Merlin Database
Hey Guys,
With the rest of the site fixed up and modified I have turned on our database option. It is basically just a small wiki that is part of the sites system. I have added a few things to it already and will probably add more as time goes.…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 2 June 2016 @ 00:17
Category: Website Update