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geoschmo August 1st, 2003 09:10 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Asmala:
I hope the autoprocessing is off. Otherwise I could miss a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not now, but I will turn it off when I get home. If your turn was due to run in the Last few hours you missed it. But you can get your game owner to reset it. I am sure we am going to be bombarded with such requests this weekend.

Geoschmo

EDIT: And Tesco, I told you for the Last time. I don't care how much you whine, you CANNOT have my Joanie loves Chachi lunch box!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 20:12: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

tbontob August 1st, 2003 09:36 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Hey Geoschmo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

What does happen when PBW is "down" and then is "up"? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Are all the games automatically put on ALPU?

And if so, what happens after that?

Specific questions which I have are:

1) Is the time reset?

2) Does it stay on ALPU till the Last player submits his turn or until a certain time has elapsed whichever comes first?

3) When is the game taken off ALPU?

4) Does the game host have an input on when the game is taken off ALPU? If so, what can he do?

Hoping you can shed some light on this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif As I am completely in the dark. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

geoschmo August 1st, 2003 09:46 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
If the server itself goes down the turns will not run. However, right now the server is up and running fine blissfully unaware that no one can reach it to upload their turns because of the ISP problems. So it's has been processing any games set to fully automatic turns that expired today during the tiem when you could not reach the website. Any games set to ALPU are fine as they will run as normal and not process until everyone is able to get their turn in.

Once I get home I can get on the server and turn off the automatic processing. What this will do is cause all games that are set to Fully Automatic to function exactly like a game that is set to ALPU. Once the website is accessible again if everybody in the game uploads or emails in their turn the turn will process. But from the point when I am able to turn off auto proc no turns will process simply because of the turn timeout.

If your game processed today during the timeout you can talk to your game owner about setting the turn back. If he is saving the turn files he can do this himself. If he is not he will have to contact us to send him the files or set the turn back for him.

In a couple days barring no more problems I will turn the auto proc back on and things will be back to normal. This will give every one a chance to get caught up on their games before the start running in fully automatic mode.

The time on the server will not be changed. That is not necessary at all.

Geoschmo

[ August 01, 2003, 20:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

tbontob August 1st, 2003 09:51 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Thanx Geoschmo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You have my vote for administrator extraordinaire. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ August 01, 2003, 21:59: Message edited by: tbontob ]

Merry Jolkar August 1st, 2003 10:35 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
I, too, would like to re-iterate my thanks to Geoschmo for his tireless efforts.

And, I would like to suggest that people make a small contribution (or a large one!) via Paypal to offset his costs.

Geoshmo, I have tried to make an additional contribution but when I hit submit it doens't process. Has anyone else had this problem? Maybe it's my PC??

Thermodyne August 1st, 2003 10:36 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Pax:
Dunno, but my firewall is moanign and *****ing about near-constant pings (most of 'em form one IP#) this morning.

And I can't open PBW, either. 8P

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That wouldn't be a reserved address that maps to a router named Blackhole and located in Southern California would it?

Asmala August 1st, 2003 11:03 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Asmala:
I hope the autoprocessing is off. Otherwise I could miss a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not now, but I will turn it off when I get home. If your turn was due to run in the Last few hours you missed it. But you can get your game owner to reset it. I am sure we am going to be bombarded with such requests this weekend.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The turn which I was worried ran three hours ago so I missed it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Geo, can you guess who's the game owner of that game? Right, you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I'm speaking about 2024 which is luckily my only fully automatic -game.

CNCRaymond August 1st, 2003 11:18 PM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by tbontob:
Thanx Geoschmo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You have my vote for administrator extraordinaire. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ditto

Grandpa Kim August 2nd, 2003 12:51 AM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Please Mr. Geoschmo, can PBW come out to play? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

tbontob August 2nd, 2003 02:09 AM

Re: PBW Down? - Back up!
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:
Please Mr. Geoschmo, can PBW come out to play? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sad to say, but I would think a fair number of games are going to have to be turned back. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I have three turns in a holding pattern for 6,45 and 170 minites and are about to run out of fuel.


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