The Winnowing - DaMilano wins!!

[OG_Gleep]

How is "Dely of Game" handled? I noticed that it said "21 hours till next hosting". Does it automatically host every X hours?

And stupid question, but when you click End Turn...do you just hit exit?

[Bluebird]

Yes, we have 24h Quickhost, means that the turn will be hosted every 24h or when everybody has submitted his turn (whatever happens *first*). When you do "end turn", you just exit. You might reconnect later and change you turn if you want. When you reconnect, the server will ask you if you want to start from scratch or if you want to continue you old turn. If you do not submit a turn within 24h, you are considered as "stale" - which has the same effect as a turn without any commands.

[Oversway]

Another thing to make the game go a little faster: If you are the last person to do their turn (which might be me this time around, I should have checked this morning), wait the few minutes while the turn hosts and do your next turn.

[thejeff]

Note that if you are the last person the game will host when you exit, even if you aren't really done with your turn.
To avoid that, if you connect and then quit without saving, you can play the turn locally and then upload when you reconnect.

Probably not important at this stage, but when turns start taking an hour or more to do, it's nice not to have to do them in one sitting.

[nihilistic]

Just a general question; what if the server crashes at some point during a turn and while some people have submitted their turns and others haven't? Does the server save its state so you (the server's administrator) are able to bring it back up without losing any turn data?

[thejeff]

Yes, barring crashes while uploading a turn, which could easily leave a corrupted turn file. The server just saves each nations turn in the game directory as normal.

[TheWatcher]

Imposter!

[Wish]

haha, thats what you get for using a pretty common name for an "evil" lady. let me guess, they are both vampire queens.