Re: Death of Pythium
 

Not nearly soon enough...

Re: Death of Pythium
 

As soon as one of the following happens:
*this one ends
*I get wiped out in this one and figure out how to host two TCP games at the same time without either of them going down
*someone else starts one

I'd be happy to email my little AppleScripts to anyone who's interested in running one, if you've got a Mac. There's one to randomly assign the seventeen nations and email them privately to the players, and another that (in conjunction with the -posthost tag on the dominions2 app) emails a new-turn notification to everyone and backs up everything each turn.

I've also got a bash script that you can use to start the game server, and (if run as a cron job) will restart the server if it goes down.

Re: Death of Pythium
 

Anybody want to fess up to having been C'tis?

what now?
 

Why are the turns constantly being delayed?

Re: what now?
 

I had two requests for delays over this weekend. I'm guessing people are traveling for Easter and/or Passover.
Don't worry... We'll be back on brutal schedule come next week!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: what now?
 

Is anyone going to fess up to being C'tis?

Re: what now?
 

Perhaps we could go to 24 hour fixed hosting after the weekend? That way we at least all know exactly when the turn is due by.

Re: what now?
 

The holiday weekend delay makes sence, but it seems like most turns have been delayed latly, and it's only friday now so this one was a pre holiday weekend delay.

I suppose i should stop whining and cultivate serenity.

Re: what now?
 

i am also getting antsy, mostly because all the IH games are down as well...so between this game, and the animal kingdom, i'm playing a turn every 2 days or so.

hopefully it gets going again soon.

Re: what now?
 

come on...who was ctis???

Re: what now?
 

I guess C'tis was one of the non forum members.

Re: what now?
 

Or it could be one of the people who are away from computers for the Easter weekend.

Re: RAND2
 

dongwook maybe?

Re: RAND2
 

Good intuition, shovah. It was indeed Dongwook.
And, sorry everyone if you're getting dupes of the email asking about it. I don't know why it's happening (my best guess is that delivery failed on one of the addresses, and my ISPs mail server is re-sending it to everyone. Not sure though).

Re: RAND2
 

Could the player who used the anonymous email address thgrl666@netscape.net please check that account?

Thanks!

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
 

I was Marignon and i have fallen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

Thanks to all for the game and thanks to Ygorl for hosting.

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
 

So who was Mictlan?

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
 

edited because it said who i was. oops.

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!
 

I was Mictlan http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

New schedule
 

I've had a request for fixed hosting, a request to slow the game down, and at least one request that the game host less erratically. So, I will change the hosting schedule to be Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 10 am EDT. If anyone has a problem with this, let me know.

Incidentally, if anyone knows how to use the --hosttime flag to specify more than one day, I'd love to hear it.

Re: New schedule
 

You might be able to do that by using --postexec to call up a script that closes Dominions and starts another instance, this time with a different --hosttime.

A 48 hours timer skipping Sundays might also work out for you, but I haven't tested --skipday. That, and the hosting hour will slowly drift away... though you could set it back to 10 am once it has drifted by an hour or so.

You might also be able to set up a scheduled task that brings down the game at 10 am, forcehost the turn and brings the server back up. Well, none of the three solutions are particularly elegant (the last one excepted, where it works well for PBEM).

Re: New schedule
 

Turns out you can simply give the --hosttime argument more than once. Talk about elegant! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: New schedule
 

So, who was Ulm?

Re: New schedule
 

server down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: New schedule
 

The server should never be down for more than a couple minutes, unless something happens that I'm powerless to correct (internet outage, blown power supply, etc.)

Most of the time, though, it goes down when somebody disconnects from it badly; in those cases it will spring back (like a Weeble!) - just give it a couple minutes and try again. I'm guessing that's what happened, unless my house burned down or something while I was out.

On a different subject, I take it this means you weren't Ulm? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Anybody want to fess up?

Re: New schedule
 

Yeap it took a few minutes to be back again. Nice work you did there with the "watchdog" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Ulm has switched to AI?- I wasn't even ever of this, guess it just goes to show how well informed of the game tidings I am http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Ulm?
 

Anybody? Who's gonna confess being Ulm?

Re: RAND2
 

my guess is folket, hes been absent a lot lately and ulm has been staling.

Re: RAND2
 

Ulm is AI, not staling.

Re: RAND2
 

He was staling turns before he turned AI

Re: RAND2
 

I admit that I was Ulm. And I did stall a couple of turns, but I played the last 8 turns before going AI.

When I lost both my sages and Jade Amazon I really had nothing going for me any more.

Re: RAND2
 

No hosting on Wednesday; Friday will host as usual.

Play on!

Re: RAND2
 

A couple folks will be away next Wednesday and Friday. The game will host Monday as usual, and then again a week later. Sorry for the delay.

Re: RAND2
 

Just out of curiosity (and lack of time to search), I wonder whose still alive in this game (that is BTW tons of fun).

Re: RAND2
 

I've been putting the countries associated with people into the first post when they die. I think it's up to date...

Re: RAND2
 

Im surprised how many of us are still going this late in the game.

Re: RAND2
 

thanks!

Re: RAND2
 

Server is down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: RAND2
 

Yeah, I was out of town, and my internet went down, and my housemates didn't know how to fix it. It's back now (and has been for a few hours).

Re: RAND2
 

i was t'ien ch'i.

Re: RAND2
 

Thanks for playing!

Re: RAND2 *DELETED*
 

Post deleted by WraithLord

Re: RAND2
 

Hey, that kind of comment reveals that you are not playing the nation in question, which is kind of against the rules.

Re: RAND2
 

Oops, my bad, I've deleted the offending post.

Re: RAND2
 

nuts, why do i always miss the posts revealing who people are/are not? =)

Re: RAND2
 

Another one out... Who was playing Caelum?

Also, I had a request to slow the game to twice a week. Right now I've got it set for M/F at 10. I could also do T/F, M/Th, or every 3 days, if there's demand for one of the other schedules. If you've got a strong opinion, let me know.

Re: RAND2
 

Would anyone complain if we went to Tuesday/Friday? I had a request for that...

Re: RAND2
 

Fine by me, no complaints.

Re: RAND2
 

Per yet another request, the Friday turn will host four hours late. Cheers!

Re: RAND2
 

I can't connect to the server.