PBW Up and Running!!!
 

All:

I'm happy to announce that PBW is back up and running finally. Thanks very much for your patience.

Please do try to let the server breathe the next couple of days, just in case. Try to refrain from adding large numbers of new games, mainly. I think that'll be mostly taken care of by people who don't check these Boards figuring we won't be back up until Monday at the earliest http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Also, if you encounter any residual bugs, please let us know about it/them.

Finally, the game that was causing the trouble has been removed from the system. That game's filename was LastMan--I assume it was the "Last Man Standing" game that was being played. If that game's owner or players could contact us, we'll see what we can do about getting it set up and non-buggy.

I think that's it. Happy playing, and thanks for sticking with PBW!

Eric/UI Guy
for PBW Administration

[ September 22, 2002, 07:08: Message edited by: LazarusLong42 ]

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Oh yeah: The server will be on ALPU only for a few days, so no one should end up missing turns.

Eric

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Yay!

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ALPU?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">After last player upload

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Nice one guys!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well that's kind of a b@#%$ because one of the games I'm in (STFF) has a spot open and a player that seems to have quit without surrendering and, on top of that, the game owner is having difficulties and may not know to manually process the turn.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So the problem didn't end up being squirrels!
I think some people owe the squirrel community an apology, don't you?

Mind you, Australia doesn't have squirrels, we have possums, which are about twice as big as squirrels http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Thanks for the Great effort you PBW Guys put in.

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Yes, the individual games may still show being set to automatic turns, but we have turned off the proccess that runs the games when the time limit expires. You will still get your little warning Messages when you are getting close to the game's expiration date, but the game will not actually pricess unless all turns are uploaded, or until the game owner hits the manual turn button.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Heh, no offense to your game owner, but it's so easy a squirrel could do it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif All he needs to do is go to the Game Admin screen and hit the grey button in the middle of the page that says "Execute the next turn!"

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1032738159.bmp

Geoschmo

[ September 23, 2002, 00:44: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Heh, no offense to your game owner, but it's so easy a squirrel could do it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif All he needs to do is go to the Game Admin screen and hit the grey button in the middle of the page that says "Execute the next turn!"

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1032738159.bmp

Geoschmo</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Forgive me, I wasn't saying that he doesn't know HOW to, only that he may not know that he NEEDS to because of the problems he is experiencing getting Online or whatever.

[ September 23, 2002, 02:28: Message edited by: Gandalph ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, I misread that. I am the one that should appologize. As to the game iteself, I looked at it and you have several players that havn'et uploaded the current turn, so I feel a little uncomfortable forcing the turn. However, I plan to turn the autoprocessing back on tomorrow evening barring any further complications. I just want to make sure everyone knows it's back up and all and has a chance to get their turns in. So if nothing happens before then from the game owner then you should get a new turn then.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">So the problem didn't end up being squirrels!
I think some people owe the squirrel community an apology, don't you?

Mind you, Australia doesn't have squirrels, we have possums, which are about twice as big as squirrels http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Thanks for the Great effort you PBW Guys put in.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeh, I wonder if we are not giving squirrels a bad rap. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Yes and kudos to you PBW guys.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I dunno. Dem squirrels is tough hombre's; my cats won't go near 'em! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Thanks for looking Geo.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I dunno. Dem squirrels is tough hombre's; my cats won't go near 'em! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Are you saying your squirrels are tougher than our squirrels? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

For those who may not know, Calgary and Edmonton are about equal sized cities in Alberta and there is perpetual competition between us with such things as NHL hockey (Flames & Oilers) and Canadian Football (Stampeders & Eskimoes), just to name a couple. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

For most of us it is just friendly competition and we like to make a joke of it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ September 23, 2002, 09:04: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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A little OT but you should all enjoy this: Squirrel Fishing <-- link here

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

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I just had a thought, suppose when this topic was posted, the PBW went down again. I can see about 15 heads exploding!

Thankfully, it hasn't happened.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">For myself, I was just havin fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I only have 2 PBW games and one of them allows a week a turn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ September 23, 2002, 19:14: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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What I do find interesting is the divergent feelings and opinions about squirrels. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I gotta admit that American Squirrels are tougher than the Engish variety. I was over there are couldn't find 1 English Red Squirrel, they and all been kicked out of there homes by American Brown Squirrels.
Not that this has anything to do with the Topic http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Looks like PBW is processing turns regularly now (ie, it's not on ALPU)...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Discovery Channel had a "snippet" on a new colored American "Grey" Squirrel which is crowding out the usual colored Grey Squirrel.

It much darker in color than the "Grey" squirrel and is so cautious that it will not approach a person for food.

The presumption is that it's "cautiousness" is a survival trait.

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American Squirrel wets its pants at the site of a Canadian Black Tailed Squirrel.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wets its pants laughing you mean.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our squirrels are so tough that when they finally die (of old age after a couple of centuries) the city gathers them up and uses the carcasses to fill potholes. The problem is, as the road wears down, the squirrels don't and you get pot lumps.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">See above.

Kim

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our squirrels are so tough that when they finally die (of old age after a couple of centuries) the city gathers them up and uses the carcasses to fill potholes. The problem is, as the road wears down, the squirrels don't and you get pot lumps.

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American Squirrel wets its pants at the site of a Canadian Black Tailed Squirrel.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">See above.

Kim</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wow!!!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

The space shuttles could use their skins to replace the heat shields. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif