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Improving the "Server is down" message
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Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
"The server will be better tomorrow." 
Seriously though, I really like these ideas and it'd be way nicer than just "we're busy, come back later".
Seriously though, I really like these ideas and it'd be way nicer than just "we're busy, come back later".
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
"Please forgive the automated workers, they know not what they do."
"Server repair is being rushed, the whipping has commenced."
"Server repair is being rushed, the whipping has commenced."
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
Thunderfall, the people have vested absolute power in you, trusting that you can get a server to stand the test of time!
EnglishCrusader
AYEEEEE
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Terrance888
Discord Reigns
"You have discovered the internet; it is malfunctioning."
"We should have saved a great Engineer, eh?"
"The Server needs a few more turns to heal before taking Monty's Capital."
"The Server is relocating from Monty's Armies"
"The Internet has launched an ICBM at the Server, and it explodes!"
"You have reached the server message, press here (fiftychat) for alternative forum."
"BARBARIANS AT THE PAGE! RUN!"
"We should have saved a great Engineer, eh?"
"The Server needs a few more turns to heal before taking Monty's Capital."
"The Server is relocating from Monty's Armies"
"The Internet has launched an ICBM at the Server, and it explodes!"
"You have reached the server message, press here (fiftychat) for alternative forum."
"BARBARIANS AT THE PAGE! RUN!"
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
It's not Civ styled, but still:
Spoiler :
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
"Our advisers are telling us that people want us to fix the server. For once, we'll listen to what they have to say."
"Our science adviser wants the server fixed. Apparently, it's his favorite technology."
"We are renegotiating the RoP agreement with the server."
"Our science adviser wants the server fixed. Apparently, it's his favorite technology."
"We are renegotiating the RoP agreement with the server."
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
"The server is down. Go play some RFC and come back around 1600."
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Just get a better server. Seeing it all the time is just getting annoying.
All of these are excellent!
I belonged to a vBulletin forum a few years ago that used a different message when the server wasn't working. We were advised to have a cup of tea while we waited. Since the server was down for over a week, we got really sick and tired of drinking all that tea...
I take it that if a CFC version of Civ were ever to come out, The Server would be one of the Wonders?
My suggestions:
The Server is busy. Please get up off your chair, put on a coat, and go outside. Take a walk. Smell some flowers. Say hello to some live humans. Have a cup of your favorite beverage. RELAX!
The Server is busy. You can go back to work now.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
We could've really used that better message these last few hours.
Now if this were a forum dedicated to lolcats...
Ohai, eberybuddy. Dis is teh Server. I hassa sick - *AH-CHOO!!!* <sniff> Plz to ask Thunderfall to call Dr. Tinycat to come help me get bedder. Kthxbai!
P.S. I can has chiken soup?
Ohai, eberybuddy. Dis is teh Server. I hassa sick - *AH-CHOO!!!* <sniff> Plz to ask Thunderfall to call Dr. Tinycat to come help me get bedder. Kthxbai!
P.S. I can has chiken soup?
azzaman333
meh
It's not.
Also, fixing the server would be vastly preferable to amusing server is down messages.
No kidding. 
I agree that fixing the server would be the best thing to do, but I also see nothing wrong with making it less stressful for people to deal with it when it does go down.
I agree that fixing the server would be the best thing to do, but I also see nothing wrong with making it less stressful for people to deal with it when it does go down.
hoplitejoe
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But this seems a lot easier. It isn't an either/or situation. I can't imagine this would take more than 30 minutes at absolute max and even if the server is "fixed" there still will be the occasional problem. When those happen it would be a lot nicer if we had an entertaining message.
azzaman333
meh
No kidding.
I agree that fixing the server would be the best thing to do, but I also see nothing wrong with making it less stressful for people to deal with it when it does go down.
Not once have I thought to myself, oh gee, I'd be less annoyed with the server being down if only the server is down message was some mildly amusing civ-related joke.
CFC is by far the least reliable of the forums I post on. It's simply not good enough.
So have you offered any practical advice to Thunderfall, then? Or are you just here to bellow at him to get it fixed, and by the way, don't allow anybody else to express a little humor at the situation? 
Humor can work wonders at keeping one's blood pressure down. That's one way I dealt with unruly infractees - I would take "humor breaks" to keep myself from saying some really angry things.
Humor can work wonders at keeping one's blood pressure down. That's one way I dealt with unruly infractees - I would take "humor breaks" to keep myself from saying some really angry things.
