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I belive Geo is now waiting until Tues. when a DSL technician and a phone technician will come to his house at the same time to work it out.

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That is correct.

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ahh i believe i have about 10 meters phone cable somewhere here - should i send some through paypal? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

addicted to pbw (like me) please click down here

[ August 18, 2003, 12:37: Message edited by: georgig ]

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Latest update:

The meeting between the phone company tech and DSL tech at the CO that was supposed to occur today did not occur today. Now it is supposed to occur tommorow afternoon.

On the bright side, I got a new harddrive today thanks to a generous donation. I will be making a duplicate of the PBW harddrive and sending it to another generous soul. This should allow us to set up a backup PBW site in a different location. If all goes well we will have the backup site up and running by this weekend. That is assuming that the DSL is not up and running tommorow afternoon.

So PBW hopefully will be back up tomorow, or this weekend.

Geoschmo

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Geo, take your time, I'll be on holiday new week !

No, seriously, do your best, we really appreciate your work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">GOOD stuff geo! what really freaked me out was that shrapnelgames.com was not up and running yesterday when i checked... its like a double whammy, no forums and no pbw made me go pale http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Finally some good news. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

The DSL is back up and running. We are able to connect to the internet. You will find you still cannot connect to PBW. The reason for this is that during the initial troubleshooting one of the things they had me do was default the router configuration. So when I get home this evening I have to set that back up. But once that is done PBW should be back up.

So you all have a few more hours to say your goodbyes to your wife and kids before returning to the depths of your addiction. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 20, 2003, 21:14: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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You seem to have chopped off the end of that Last smiley there Geo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Well, us nosey bastards want to know what the problem was that took nearly 3 weeks and various combinations of techs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'd like to know too. They didn't say, but I'll try to find out. I need to call in tonight and let them know it's working and all at my end. All they knew for sure Last time I talked to them was it was working at their end.

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If they stutter and pause during the explanation, you can be sure it was because of something simple they forgot to check some other time... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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And they didn't check the simple things because it was easier to blame the guys from the other company. Therefore you needed a meeting of both of them just to make sure they *really* started checking everything.

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hmmm...looks like it's back up! Woo Hoo! Now I'll just sit and wait...patiently...for my inbox to start filling up with turns again. Yes, life has meaning once more....Now, off to donate some more cash to PBW....

Thanks again Geoschmo for all your hard work and patience...

Alarik

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Nope, not quite. You caught me while I was testing. It's not ready for prime time yet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Well hot damn! Geo could you please leave all the games set to Last Player Upload for a while if you had not already planned on doing so. Thanks.

Now leave work early and GO HOME!

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

That explains my feelings right now. The life I was building up once again will soon be over. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif It is good to be so near to having it back Online.

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yaay!

louder yaay when it's ready.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL, Rags! AND, no telling how many marriages were saved in the nick of time! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Not to mention keeping me from going insane trying to balance PBW with working on that Xiati encounter animation I was doing as a school project... God you can really tell how little life I have, even my school projects involve SE4... that was actually the second one, too, the first was the planet generator for POV-Ray... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Okay. Server is back Online. Everyone is free to use it now. A couple things though:

RTC may not work. I have to check that out. I am not sure the router is configured right for that yet. Please let me know if you can get it to work.

If you use the graphic UI some of the buttons wont work right. You will et the PBW down screen in the window. This is because we used absolute links instead of relative links in some places. That will clear up once teh DNS is set back to the server instead of the PBW down page.

Auto turns will remain off for indefinetly. I will let you know when they are gonna be turned back on. Game owners can force turns if they want and turns will run if all .plr files are uploaded.

Please report any other issues that you find.

Geoschmo

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Geo I posted my game host thing before you posted that the server was back up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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PBW allowed me to do all my hosting jobs with no problems.
Thanks for doing us all a big service Geo. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I hope Geo had a baseball bat handy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Thanks Geo for all your hard work!

For those of us who ran some turns during the PBW hiatus....

I believe we should not run our final turn manually and then upload the .gam, .log and .cmb files as a zip file to the site.

At any rate, I just did this and my players all received email from the site with the newly uploaded files. I test downloaded my turn, and it looks correct.

If you only upload the .gam file directly, your players will not be able to view the current round's combat, so a .zip is better.

Question: My game turn is listed on the site as 2408.4, but the true game is now at 2408.7 because I ran three turns manually. How do I correct this?

Thanks,
Merry

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you tell me which game it is I can adjust the turn number. We can move it forward, but not backwards.

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If I only could remember what I was up to in my PBW games I'd be happy... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or what all those picture icons in the main screen mean http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you tell me which game it is I can adjust the turn number. We can move it forward, but not backwards.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or, you can go into the db and change it to any value manually. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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YAAY!

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Got on, uploaded my KOTH turn, got the new turn, played the new turn.... now I can't get back on. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Any hints on how to get back there would be sincerely appreciated.

I now go to cry in my beer. *boo-hoo*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I can get in the text-based Version.

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Yeah, that's the only way I ever try to get in. Seizes up after about half a second leaving me with only a black screen.

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Yeeeee-Haaaaa

Congrats to Geo, you're back in business. I'm not gonna clutter up the PBW today, as I'm sure everyone's clamoring to get to their turns. It's good to be back, my wife was starting to get used to getting attention, and that was getting plain tiring... now I can bring our marriage back to it's "basal state" again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ August 21, 2003, 03:59: Message edited by: jimbob ]

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Galactic Dominion should now be 2408.8.

Thanks!
Merry

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you tell me which game it is I can adjust the turn number. We can move it forward, but not backwards.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

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PBW Hosts: Games can be incremented by repeatedly uploading the current turn until it is right. However, your players would probably not like it if they get their mail box overflowing with redundant attachments.

I'm telling my players to just cope with the turn counter off. I'd rather see Geo do something more important. Of course, my group only did 4 turns or so. We waited two weeks before we took up the game off line. It was nice to have a break during the summer. Can we plan on one of these outages next summer? A little advanced warning would be nice so we can plan vacations around it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Good work Geo, we knew that you could do it !

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">yeah this is it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Well hot damn! A reason to keep on living!

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I only hope that I can manage to remember all of my games' passwords.

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Everyone come on over (after you do your turns) to the Phong's Head and raise a glass in honor of Geoschmo for his persistence and hard work, and in celebration of the return of PBW!

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Thank you, Geoschmo.

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It appears the DNS has propagated back to the server now. You should be getting the intro from the server rather then the alternate site now. The forums should also be working properly again on the graphic side.

Anybody had a chance to try RTC yet? Is it working for you?

Geoschmo

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Hmmm, it appears the email isn't functioning properly. I sent out a game message to one of my games and nothing came through. Have to check that out this evening.

Geoschmo

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I received your "news" item for Ankle Biters. Also, uploaded a KOTH turn and it sent me the results in email. So, are you just saying SENDING by email isn't working?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I am not sure. I was refering to the ankle biters news. It finally came through to me as well. It took several minutes though and normally they are waiting in my email as soon as I can get there from PBW. Might have just been a glitch in my yahoo email. I'll keep an eye on it though.

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The turn in 2024 hadn't executed when the server went down (or Geoschmo has already fixed it so it looks like it hadn't executed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) so there's no problem with that.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, I am not sure. I was refering to the ankle biters news. It finally came through to me as well. It took several minutes though and normally they are waiting in my email as soon as I can get there from PBW. Might have just been a glitch in my yahoo email. I'll keep an eye on it though.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Recent news says that the "sobig.F" email virus has set a new record. I wonder if that's slowing stuff down everywhere.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not working for me... seiv.pbw.cc at port 4489, right?

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif Big thanks to Geoschmo for his effort.

Have you done anything to the 2024 game yet Geo? If not I think it's not necessarily to move the turn back, a missed turn won't danger my empire.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not working for me... seiv.pbw.cc at port 4489, right?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ok, thanks for letting me know. Try it again. I think I have it fixed now.

Geoschmo