This is a notice for all members of the Terra Authorized Dealers group, who own and operate TerraVend vendors.
As most have noticed, there have been serious technical issues with the vendors. Email communication breakdowns between sims have made running the system almost impossible — a significant percentage of the total number of vendors are not able to properly communicate with the servers. For that reason, I have decided to shut down TerraVend until I can design a system that does not rely on email — email in SL has proven just too unreliable. By tomorrow, TerraVend vendors will no longer be able to register with the server, and after that I will completely remove the servers. The vendors will automatically go into an “offline” mode, in which they accept no payments.
It could be anywhere between two weeks to two months before I can redeploy TerraVend. When I have a reliable replacement, I will announce it at www.cavers.ca. I apologize for any inconvenience this long downtime may cause. I hope all of you will want to try the new system when it’s complete.
For those of you who wish to continue selling skydiving gear, one proven method of reselling is to buy a small stock of equipment and sell them from boxes. You may wish to try that until the new TerraVend is up and running.
Thank you all very much for taking part in TerraVend!