{"id":638,"date":"2010-04-06T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:33:36","slug":"election-lightning-server-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/04\/06\/election-lightning-server-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Election, lightning server issues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots going on.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly there is going to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/election_2010\/8603591.stm\">ELECTION<\/a> in the UK. At last. I was so surprised&#8230; Anyway, to celebrate this, you can get Democracy 2 for half price. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy2\/UK2010.html\">ONLY TODAY<\/a>. So get clicking! As I live in a safe seat, my vote is practically pointless. Hurrah for our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_past_the_post\">crappy electoral system<\/a>. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday I was doing various bits like adding support for fixed terrain items to GSB for modders, which means you can do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6uzyuQW8gFs\">this<\/a>, and in theory do a naval or ground combat mod. That then led me onwards to add in this, which is an attempt at that flickery lightning effect from Star trek: The Wrath Of Khan. Its configurable on a per-mission basis. I like it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3u9jaONAeC0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3u9jaONAeC0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also, not related to lightning, my server was down for a while, maybe 25 mins yesterday. Huge apologies. Nothing would have worked, but you should have been able to play GSB, if not upload or download any challenges. It&#8217;s fine now.<\/p>\n<p>Back to campaign stuff now&#8230; Patch 1.37 will come soon, once I&#8217;ve added some stuff the campaign will need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots going on. Firstly there is going to be an ELECTION in the UK. At last. I was so surprised&#8230; Anyway, to celebrate this, you can get Democracy 2 for half price. ONLY TODAY. So get clicking! As I live in a safe seat, my vote is practically pointless. Hurrah for our crappy electoral system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Election, lightning server issues&#8230;<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/04\/06\/election-lightning-server-issues\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}