I know, YET another new skin. This one is a white background, with black text, quite simplistic and easy on the eyes, especially for those who do not like the darker backgrounds (which we seem to be overly fond of here.) Hope you like it, it is called Fallen Angel, and can be found in the skin dropdown at the bottom of the page.
Due to a string of troubles this year, Missing Pieces (and the whole of the PretenderCentre) has moved servers. The old host was having a huge amount of difficulty and we hope this new one works out a bit better.
There should hopefully be a significantly less amount of downtime and problems now
Yet another new skin for Missing Pieces, and the whole of the PretenderCentre. It is "Centre=themed grey". All the old skins are still there if you prefer another.
The PretenderCentre has had a complete overhaul and a new feature has been added, a PretenderPedia, which functions similar to wikipedia, and can be found at www.pretendercentre.com/pretenderpedia/. We would like to invite members to join and help build this up into a definitive Pretender resource.
Hope you like the new skin and the new PretenderPedia.
Thanks to the donation by Tina, the PretenderCentre site will be funded for two months. In acknowledgment of her contribution, Missing Pieces will be dedicated to her to show our appreciation.
Anyone else who would like to make a donation, please press the link at the bottom of the page and just let me know.
Thanks again tina!!
A new discussion forum has been set up at the PretenderSIM and can be found here.
It is a forum for writing, where grammar, characterisation, word processing tips and troubleshooting, when to use a comma, etc etc etc. Anything at all can be discussed that might be useful in writing. Ask your own questions, or just read the questions and comments others have written.
Had a huge crash sitewide yesterday. All data is intact by the looks of things and have site up and running agian. Having some problems with skins though, some are just gone, some are not really working. Hopefully should have them all fixed so, in the mean time please bear with us as we work to get them done. There is a new (temporary default) until i can get the rest of them working again.
If your favourite skin is missing, please be a little patient, it will be back soon.
A new rotating skin has been loaded for your refreshing pleasure. A black and white skin, Jarod and Lyle centric, entitled Nemesis.
Enjoy!
If you wish to change to another skin, go to Account Info and Edit Preferences to change your default skin to whichever you wish.
Hey everyone,
We're proud to announce we have a new skin for you. It's called *shades* and can be chosen the usual way by using the drop-down.
We're still tinkering with some features but that should be sorted too. If you find any hitches please do not hesitate to tell us.
Hopefully you like the new skin
ICD
The server upgrade for Saturday seems to have done more damage than I have thought. It shut down the Pretendercentre nearly all day, but now it would appear that it has eaten the reveiws table as well.
Reviews have been restored and MP seems to be functioning once again properly. If you lost a review, we apologise, unfortunately however it is gone for good.
Sorry for the hassle.
Hey everyone,
and yet again, there's another new set of banners. This time there are three additions.
Go ahead and look for: Cox, Sam and an SL-27 banner
Enjoy the refreshing-game.
As of now, we have a new banner (Willie) in the pretender_rotate.
On top of that, I fiddled with the Jarod-banner there, because it struck us PTB's as a bit boring.
Hope everyone likes
Happy refreshing once more.
Hey everyone,
just a short note to tell you that there are two new banners up in the 'rotating banner'.
So watch out for Thomas and the clone now... happy refreshing :)
Have added a new HELP link at the top of the page, in between Skin Credits and Contact us.
This is a list of instrcutions on how to register and post your first story for anybody having difficulties. Hopefully this will guide you through the process until you are used to it.
If there are any suggestions on how this instruction guide could be improved, please comment on this news item.
A new SIM will be starting soon, called 'Second Chance'. For all those interested, new and old members, head on over and grab a character here: Second Chance
So Jacci and I have been playing around with the skin and we've come up with a totally new one. It's under the name of Azure (in relation to the blue font).
Had a blast with the process, hope it shows in the work. Take a peek at it, enjoy it.
We're proud to announce that we have a new skin... well, actually it's the old skin but with new shiny banners. We have just put up a rotating banner consisting of (for now) 12 banners featuring the characters.
We've played with admin power to have more or less everyone set to that skin for you to look. You can of course reset to your old skin or for those we have missed with putting on that new skin, you can sneak a glance under the *PretenderRotate* in the skin changer.
Tell us what you think and enjoy clicking through the sites while getting new banners
Just added a cool new feature to the bio area. You can now proudly claim if you are a Pretender or a Centre affiliated person and it will show up in the bio info.
Just go to Account Info, edit bio and you will see a dropdown for affiliations, you can choose either Pretender or Centre and a little icon will come up to show your affiliation. You will need to actually use the dropdown (despite it already being on Pretender) and pick the one you want, then save the changes, or they will not hold.
To check it you can go to your stories listing page and you should see your choice showing up.
It appears we are having some problems in ie6 with the site. Pretender1 seems to be displaying a little incorrectly.
If you have not updated to ie7, we urge you to do so, or try firefox or opera. The ie6 browser is out of date and cannot cope with some of the new coding unfortunately, although I will be trying to find a way around this.
Just ran an upgrade to improve a few features, including the reveiw notifications, which should now be fully functional, including on co-authored stories.
If you notice anything not working, could you please report it here using the comment link just underneath.Thanks.
I believe email notifications for reveiws and author responses are now going out. YAY
For the author responses, if you are not logged in when you click on the link, it will tell you that you are not authorised to access that function. If you are logged in, then it will take you to your page of reveiws.
Unfortunately, there is no order or sequence on that page, so it doesn't really help you find the response. We are working on this and hopefully will have an update soon.
Also, if you have joined the Gallery and are having problems, this should now be fixed, if you still are, let me know and we will get it sorted out.
Picture by ICD
The Pretender Sim has just added a new RPG (role playing game, or "sim" as we tend to call it), and we're looking for new people to take on the characters.
So far pretty much all of the characters are up for grabs, but that can change fast, so if you're thinking about saying yes, then do it before your favorite character is taken. To sign up for a character, or just see what all the fuss is about, go here
If you have your own idea for a sim then we'd love if you started one, there's an FAQ on how to do that here
Don't worry if you've never done it before, it's all for fun and doesn't need to be perfect. If you're really nervous, why not start out with something small, like a sweeper?
To give everyone a chance to be involved from the start the sim won't start up until Tuesday 22. but signup starts right now. You can of course join after Tuesday as well.
Hope to see you soon. And just so you know I'm everybit as new with RPG'ing as you are, so that's not excuse not to claim a character.
Just like that into your stories. It can be found here.
ETA: Have reactivated shoutbox after Broots did his magic. Hopefully he will live up to his reputation and we will now be safe from spammers.
I have put the shoutbox on inactive for now. We've been spammed so often in the last 24 hrs and it's becoming bloody annoying to delete ads for viagra and other things.
So for now the shoutbox is out until Jacs decides what to do with it or until we get a fix for the bug that's probably in it.
Sorry about the hassle
ETA: It may be on again, off again, as we strive to sort out what the problem is.