Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Quickhost and a FIXED schedule is BAD.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wrong. If you set it to host at a FIXED time every day, and the Last player sends his turn in, at, say 1130, the game immediately hosts, because it is set for quickhost. Because it is set for quickhost, the game then immediately hosts. The player who Last sent his turn in sees this, takes his turn again. Then the game will host AGAIN at the fixed time of 1200, and everyone will STALE!

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Quickhost with fixed schedule is BAD, 'mkay?

What you're thinking about that is harmless is Quickhost with a timer. If the game is set to host in, say, 48 hours, and the Last player sends his in turn at 0900, the game will host. The next time the game will then host is in 48 hours from 0900, or when all players have again submitted their turn. Say this happens tomorrow at 1700. Then the game will host again in 48 hours, or when somebody else sends in their turn. The result being that the game will not host on a consistent schedule unless somebody is staling, but you will ALWAYS have at LEAST 48 hours.

The game will therefore not host on a consistent schedule, but you will ALWAYS have 48 hours. Maybe more....but don't count on it, slacker! Besides, if you really need more than that, then you are deliberately procrastinating.

Would you like be to open a port for sign-in now?

[ June 18, 2004, 18:27: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wrong. If you set it to host at a FIXED time every day, and the Last player sends his turn in, at, say 1130, the game immediately hosts, because it is set for quickhost. Because it is set for quickhost, the game then immediately hosts. The player who Last sent his turn in sees this, takes his turn again. Then the game will host AGAIN at the fixed time of 1200, and everyone will STALE!
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have tested this and found something different, same as Chazar, three Posts below.

Quickhosting prior to the fixed time will cause that next-scheduled fixed host time to be skipped.

[ June 18, 2004, 18:50: Message edited by: Reverend Zombie ]

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

Is that so? This is not how I remember it. Perhaps they changed it in a patch. If you're volunteering to make this the game that guinea-pigs this theory, fine by me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ June 18, 2004, 19:18: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

Guess we'll guinea pig things. I'll take Pangaea - we going on Karan then, with 6 players?

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, sorry. It started out as 48h, but it's intended to be at least 5 times a week hosting now.

I guess twice a week will take to much real time to complete the game...

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

You might want to do a head count, it's been a bit of a confusing start http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

We went from 2-5 days to 24 hr.

- Kel

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

!!!New Players interested in participating: Please look at the continually updated first post of this thread!!!

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sure, but I dont know how. I mean, there is the second post in this thread, which I edit to maintain it updated, and I hope that everyone took a look at. Currently it list:

Abysia:JJ_Colorado
Ulm:Mark the Merciful
C'tis:Kel
Caelum:Chazar
R'lyeh:Pickles
Pangaea:Cainehill


Or should we ask that everybody sends me/us a life-sign? Or should I simply use the email message mechanism of this forum to send everybody a message once the server is up and running?

[ June 19, 2004, 18:52: Message edited by: Chazar ]

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's not snarky. Besides, the conditions dictate that I will come up with the snarky name.

It shall be...."Fat Obstreperous Jerks".

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">By "standard", I assume you refer to the commonly accepted MP standard of Indy-6, Sites-50, blah, blah, blah.

You may begin sign-ins at:
kludgemush.com 10297

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

I would like in as T'ien Ch'i.

Re: MP: Mon-Fri 12.00h UTC fixed scheduled host (game in progress)
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No need for insulting!
(BTW: I've lost 7kg Last month so I'm not fat anymore!!!)
EDIT: I looked up "obstreperous". Seems ok with me now that I know the meaning...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, I meant standard as the game offers it! What does everybody taking part else say?

[ June 19, 2004, 21:06: Message edited by: Chazar ]