Please accept my apologies for the game being unavailable for the last day or so.
To put it quite simply there have been circumstances beyond my control.
For the first time since I started this game the actual program crashed.
CivStats also crashed and I do not know which program failed first. Suffice it to say that until I can figure out what happened I will not bring the game up again.
What is worse is that I am travelling at present and I am not physically in the same place as the server and although I can access it regrettably I do not have the time to work this problem out. Coupled to that although I do have Internet access it is far more limited than I had expected; this message is being written from a public area, in surroundings that are hardly suitable for trying to resolve computer problems. Those who have a sense of humour will understand when I say that where I am presently staying in is somewhat akin to Fawlty Towers.
Trying to sort out a wireless Internet connection with the local IT guy was priceless! Also, the maids here have explained to me that they feel that having to work is an injustice as though somehow their human rights have been contravened.
Oh, and I forgot to add, I am quite severely jet lagged too.
So, assuming that things are going to carry on the way they are at the moment, I do not want to create any unreasonable expectations that they will change, unfortunately the game may be unavailable for the next three weeks. I appreciate that this may be frustrating for players as much as it is infuriating for me but I have to see the funny side of it and at the moment I am so exhausted that the most sensible thing I think I of doing is to take myself off somewhere and find a beer.
Cheers!