[llamabeast]

Oooh dear. I hadn't realised you staled. I thought you must have taken your turn since the turn hosted ahead of time. Having investigated, it seems it was my fault. What happened was I changed the hosting interval to (n+48) hours, which has the side effect of postponing hosting by n hours, then brought the hosting forward by n hours, which should have cancelled to produce no overall effect. However, the way the server interprets commands received all at once which apply to the same setting (the hosting time in this case), it only uses the last one (there's good reasons for that that I'll have to think about). So in the end what it did to the hosting time was bring it forward by n hours, making it in the past, so the turn hosted right away.

So, I'm really really sorry about that. I hope you hadn't spent too much time on the turn already. Perhaps I ought to stale next turn in an attempt to restore some modicum of fairness. Maybe I ought to think about making changes to the way the server processes simultaneous commands as well.

On rain of stones: Yeah, it's really vicious on defense isn't it? Not quite sure how to counter it, apart from only using troops who are too tough to die to it. I was astonished it killed every single wolf though, I didn't think it was quite that good. Well, I see now why you had a small force of ethereal things defending that province - very cunning indeed.

So, was it you who armageddoned us all? Of course you don't have to say.