Pylon forum

I tried to play Pylon. However the link that you provided cause a Gamut error: "No game parlor exists at this address (pylon@volity.net/vo­lity)".

Also the Gamut Game Finder does not list Pylon.

Thanks. However now getting an error that cannot find the UI file. Has it moved from steak.place.org ?

It sounds like Volity needs some kind of monitoring to ensure availability of parlors and resources.

Very sorry about that-- I forgot that my Gamut was using a local copy of the UI file. I had a disk crash last summer so lots of things got out of whack; I put the UI file back in its rightful place, but I seem to have lost the ruleset page for good. (Which isn't an issue for playing the game, since the ruleset URI is just a token and it's not required that there be a page at that address, but it's useful for API documentation.) Anyway, I think Pylon should work now, but please let me know if you still have problems (and feel free to email me for quicker response, dougorleans@gmail.co­m).

I agree that a monitoring system would be nice. I don't think the Volity guys will be doing any active development here in the near future, but this is something a third party could probably implement-- a standalone daemon that periodically queried the bookkeeper and sent mail to the owners of resources that are not available (or something).

Great, Pylon is working nicely now.

The Wayback Machine does not have a copy of the ruleset either. Perhaps because there is no list of hypertext links to Volity resources, so the archiver could not crawl to it.

Regarding monitoring, it is probably better that someone external does that. I will start a new thread for that topic.