EMPIRE on the HP3000 Going Down Until January

[tmj]

Sorry folks the, EMPIRE game will be going down until January.

This is one of those customer service fiascoes.

All this time the EMPIRE machine has been on my COX home internet.  I attempted to switch to T-Mobile for Business.

#1  So I could get a static IP again.
#2  With port forwarding on port 80 so the EMPIRE machine could have a web page again.

Right know I only have #1.
With old COX to get a web page they wanted me to have a business account, which is hundreds of dollars more a month.
With T-Mobile a Business account is only 12 bucks more than a home Consumer account.

To make a long story short, due to miscommunication and misunderstanding the "Customer Support" in based in call centers outside the U.S. they misunderstood what I wanted and set me up as a Consumer account.

So now I have to wait 90 days before I can do a "migration" to a Business account.

(There are more stupid details than this, but this is the nutshell version.)

Currently with COX you can still get to the EMPIRE machine at empire.game-host.org, but rather than pay for TWO internet services at the same time for three months, I'm going to turn COX off.  I was hoping to do the transition smoothly.

This will last for 90 days.  It will take a few days before I turn COX off so you have a few days to play some of the short term text games like MILLBORN and ADVENT.