New & raw web based Dominion II game server

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
All_The_Nations is an ancient game, started by myself, which I thought had finished but which has re-appeared on the running list.

Well, if it's your game, why are you complaining about it? Kill it yourself. It's your game.

[Zapmeister]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, if it's your game, why are you complaining about it? Kill it yourself. It's your game.

I disowned it long ago. It's no longer mine.

[Zapmeister]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Well, if it's your game, why are you complaining about it? Kill it yourself. It's your game.

There's been no change of state for All_The_Nations and no word from Esben, but I noticed that despite the fact that I don't own the game (the owner field is blank) I do, in fact, have the power to stop it.

So I did.

[Norfleet]

Excellent. Nothing like a little bit of self-help.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Sorry about the no response; I just didn't get around to it.

I regard all disowned games as fair game; that is why anybody can stop them. I can't remember if the pages provides support for picking up ownership of a game, but if they don't, a mail or message to me will do the trick. Just in case anybody is participating in an unowned game and is getting nervous

[Zapmeister]

A revelation !!!

I was wondering how a dinosaur like All_The_Nations got to be restarted, so I went to the "show all games page" to see how hard it would be to restart something.

I clicked a defunct game, and it's status page came up, with the message that the game couldn't be restarted as all slots were full !!

In other words, the mere act of getting a game's status from the "show all games" listing tries to restart the game.

This is clearly what's been happening. Someone browsing the all games page has innocently clicked a game, which has promptly restarted.

Any chance of getting this behaviour changed Esben ?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
A revelation !!!

I clicked a defunct game, and it's status page came up, with the message that the game couldn't be restarted as all slots were full !!

In other words, the mere act of getting a game's status from the "show all games" listing tries to restart the game.

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Any chance of getting this behaviour changed Esben ?

The games are not restarted just by browsing them When I print the forms, I check whether a form element makes sense. If it doesn't, I sometimes print a substitute message --- in this case the message that the game cannot currently be restarted.

The game was restartet on purpose ... I even got a mail about it, I think.