I tried joining TPU with the BG42 version of Battle of Britain just now and in every test, as soon as my player name appeared in the server manager, the server crashed. This is the same thing it was doing the last time I removed it from the rotation. So, until I can figure out what's going on, I have once again removed this map. Sorry, folks. By the way, if anyone has any ideas about this, please let me know.

A whole bunch more of the Battlegroup 1942 maps have been modded for TPU. That means more tank spawns and more plane spawns, and no more waiting around for a ride - at least for these maps. Today's batch consists of the remaining BG42 versions of the classic BF1942 maps:
- Battle of Britain [server crashes; removed]
- Battle of the Bulge [okay]
- Battleaxe [okay]
- Berlin [okay]
- Bocage [okay]
- El Alamein [okay]
- Gazala [okay]
- Guadalcanal [okay]
- Kharkov [okay]
- Kursk [okay]
- Liberation of Caen [okay]
- Market Garden [okay]
- Omaha Beach [okay]
- Stalingrad [okay]
- Tobruk [okay]
- Wake [okay]

Let me know if any of these maps cause problems and I'll either fix it or remove it from the rotation temporarily. The BG42 version of Battle of Britain was causing problems a while ago and I had to remove it; I'm adding this tweaked version back to the rotation for the first time since then. Enjoy!

Tuesdays are now wildcard days on TPU. Some of you may have noticed DCFinal maps running on TPU last night, which was me testing the DCFinal maps. They seemed to be fine, so I've set up Tuesdays to run DCFinal maps on a six hour Allied/Axis 2:1 shift as usual. Next Tuesday will be the first official wildcard day. If anyone has trouble joining the server or with any maps in particular, or has suggestions for map list, map order or other settings for DCFinal or wildcard days, let me know here on the comments.

Not-a-bot suggested setting up a poll about this and I thought that was a great idea, so take a look down the right column and vote away. Thanks!

As most of you probably noticed, TPU's Internet connection was down for a few hours this afternoon. I was finally able to bring it back by resetting the modem and it should be okay now. If anyone notices otherwise, please let me know.

UPDATE: The Shaw tech was here and he replaced an old splitter which seems to have fixed the problem. Let me know how it's working for you.

Due to carelessness on my part, TPU as down from about 0100 hours PST to about 0730 hours PST. My finger must have slipped at some point yesterday when I was moving BG42 files around. Sorry about that. The new maps should all be working.

DarkRyda's efforts to TPU-ize the BG42 maps continue. His latest work is now live on TPU, and includes the following:

4005-airfield_ockenburg (increased tanks, planes and a few cars)
4005-battle_of_arras (increased tanks, planes and a few cars)
4307-gela_beach (aka Operation Husky; increased tanks, planes and cars)
3908-khalkin_gol (increased tanks, planes and/or cars)
4105-operation_mercury (increased tanks, planes and/or cars)
4503-operation_varsity (increased tanks, planes and/or cars)
4307-route_to_agira (increased tanks, planes and/or cars)
4401-operation_shingle_small (increased tanks, boats and landing craft)
4401-operation_shingle (increased tanks, boats and landing craft; also increased the amount of artillery explosions on the beach, so that it's now a constant bombardment until the Allies take the beach)
4411-the_roer_plains (increased tanks, planes and/or cars)

On Thursday, in the early morning hours, my car was stolen from the covered breezeway in my back yard. Whoever stole it was not a professional, because the car was 23 years old and rusty. Was it just local kids looking for a bit of fun? Probably. Will the cops ever find it? (The rest of this paragraph was removed after I came to my senses.)

Anyway, I did notice that the thief also stole one of the mudflaps that had fallen off and was sitting on a bench near the car. That would seem to indicate that either the thief intends to keep the car, or they acquired it for someone who intends to keep it. A couple of weeks ago at a traffic light someone in another car asked if I would sell it. When I declined, he looked very annoyed and asked "why not?" Was it him?

The car is a dark blue 1988 Toyota MR2, supercharged, with a T roof. If you see one of those (in the Vancouver area), let me know. They are rare enough that it will be worth my while to follow up.

**UPDATE** They found it! Whoever took it drove to Maple Ridge (about 20 miles away) and dumped it. Someone reported it abandoned yesterday and the Maple Ridge RCMP called me last night. No obvious damage other than the ignition. It will be towed to a local mechanic and repaired, and I should have it back later this week.

Yesterday afternoon (June 21), from about 4pm to 8pm PST, TPU's connection to the Internet was apparently down. This morning it became clear that the building's WAN connection is going up and down sporadically.

I have started the troubleshooting process and will most likely need to call in Shaw again. You may or may not be able to play on TPU, and even if you are able to connect, your connection may drop for no reason.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry for the inconvenience.

DarkRyda has started going through the BG42 maps, bumping up the tank and plane spawns, TPU-style. The first batch is now on TPU:
Iwo Jima
3712-fall_of_nanking
4212-tebourba_breakthrough
4212-tigers_at_tebourba

Check out the changes on Sunday or Monday.