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Many of you have probably noticed how foul a mood I've been in lately. There are several reasons, but mostly I'm just tired and overly-busy. There has also been some mysterious admin activity lately... At least 2 songs have disappeared from the site, and I've been getting weird PMs from people who are pissed off about something, and I'm not sure why... And of course there's the whole Ace_Greyson incident (sorry again, stoex, for snapping at 'ya).

To be perfectly honest, I don't have time for this site right now. The staff members have hardly been on at all, and haven't been doing anything with the submitted songs (unless they're just rejecting them or adopting them without reviews), and omin0uschaos is no longer a staff member after 3 years... All of that adds to my frustrations.

I'm juggling the idea of either shutting the site down or handing it over to someone else, because while I still like the site and want to keep it, I realistically don't have time for it anymore. It wouldn't be fair to have the site sitting around with no one running it, and I don't think that anyone is interested in running it. However, this site has been a paragon of quality music (in one form or another) for almost 10 years now, and I wouldn't want to just throw it all away. We'll see how things pan out...

So here we are. I'm not making any decisions right now, but I wanted to give the active members a heads up about what's going on and why I've been so inactive recently. If I've snapped at you in the last few days, you probably did something wrong, but I was also probably too much of a jerk in response, so I apologize for it.

I suppose that's all for now.

Let this be an example...

A while back I received a submission from Ace that was not his work. It was from a Final Fantasy game, it was not disguised, and there was a description and inspiration typed out for the piece as if it was his own composition.

I've since PMed Ace about it, and he assured me that it was the only one, and that it was an accident. After that PM, I've learned that another song he's been toting around - "At Wars End" - is not actually his song either. He has posted it in the WIP forum (twice), and submitted it to the Sakari Infinity MIDI RTP as his own contribution.

The song is titled "Aftermath", and it was written by audioMuse, now a member of this forum: zeryx28. I'd also like to note that I made the discovery about this song before zeryx28 joined.

Therefore, Ace_Greyson has been removed from the Local Musician group.


@Ace: I will not tolerate theft, Ace, and you're lucky I'm not banning you. You can thank another member for that, because originally I was going to ban you. If you've done this with any other songs, I'm sure people will want to know. I know I do.

Hello from Sakari Infinity!

This is to inform you that we've had some great music submitted to the site, and we've started a MIDI Run-Time Package for RPG Maker. The RTP is being led by the admirable Chris Hurn, and will be completely original, completely free, and only on Sakari Infinity.

The other important thing I wanted to tell you about is RpgM.org. Sakari Infinity is proud to sponsor and announce the awesome new community: RPG Manager (http://www.rpgm.org). It's an RPG Maker resource site that is unlike any other RPG Maker site. Not only does it have resources, games, and a well-run community, it also has a fully-featured professional-quality management back end for your resources and projects. It's everything a person would need for their RPG Maker projects, so check it out!


An extra announcement is that the server on which Sakari Infinity is hosted recently was upgraded, so expect even faster speeds and loading times!

FadingHeartbeat, formerly ProjectAngelus, is now a Global Moderator. This means he's got Mod powers as far as the eye can see. This post is to announce his name change and his new position.

So make sure you mind your manners, cross all your "t"s, and dot all your "i"s. Our sheriff just got a bigger gun.

I also want to thank him for accepting the responsibility and being a continuously-contributing member to Sakari Infinity, and a positive influence on the community in general.

Thanks to a member report by Lezard Valeth, I've discovered that there are multiple files that are simply not working. The reason is that they were uploaded before I implemented my own system, effectively removing spaces from filenames.

So, today my project is going to be renaming a couple dozen files and manually updating the database. If things act a little funny today, then this is why. I'll update this thread when I'm done.