Ryan Eye MP Game (thread name changed)

#1 February 8th, 2004, 01:42 AM

There isn't a command line switch for host in hours?

-hours 36 -q

And yes, I can see that, without a Master Password and having someone flake on you, you'd have to force it every 24/36 hours whatever.

alexti · #2 February 8th, 2004, 03:57 PM

If anybody sent me Messages while I was staling, please resend or PM me.

Karacan · #3 February 9th, 2004, 02:37 AM

Next turn in six hours, just did mine.

Could you stop either the quickhost or the midnight-hosting, please?

Gandalf Parker · #4 February 9th, 2004, 04:11 AM

Last I heard we were trying to get both to work.
Does everyone want to go to once-a-day? Shut it down, restart with no "quick" switch, and hope for no stales?

Wendigo · #5 February 9th, 2004, 08:51 AM

Definitely, pls go back to just fixed hosting as it's clearly not working.

I checked before going to work & there it was, game about to host & my turn pending.
I rushed some orders while Arco was doing the same. No luck for Machaka, who will not even get to see what happened in his Last offensive.

This is particularly a killer for those of us in Europe & similar time zones: the quickhost fires when we are already sleeping & one of the Americans plays his turn, and then the game has already hosted again next morning our time. Not good.

Karacan · #6 February 9th, 2004, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Last I heard we were trying to get both to work.
Does everyone want to go to once-a-day? Shut it down, restart with no "quick" switch, and hope for no stales?

I'd like to get it to work too... either quickhost, or within 24 (or 36, which I rather like) hours since the Last update.

But until you have a definite idea how that works, could we just cancel one out? At the moment, it hosts at midnight your time and everytime everyone has put in his turns... this means I have to be awake at around 5:00 am my time to see if I am about to get a stale turn - since I am currently trying to do complete my studies more or less seriously, that's not an option for me.

Gandalf Parker · #7 February 9th, 2004, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Karacan:

quote:
Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Last I heard we were trying to get both to work.
Does everyone want to go to once-a-day? Shut it down, restart with no "quick" switch, and hope for no stales?

I'd like to get it to work too... either quickhost, or within 24 (or 36, which I rather like) hours since the Last update.

But until you have a definite idea how that works, could we just cancel one out? At the moment, it hosts at midnight your time and everytime everyone has put in his turns... this means I have to be awake at around 5:00 am my time to see if I am about to get a stale turn - since I am currently trying to do complete my studies more or less seriously, that's not an option for me.

Did it? Did we get stale turns because it got turned off and back on? (which sems like the program should be able to avoid) or did it do it again after that? If its working the way it should then taking it down and putting it back without the quickhost will create another stale.