LA game for new players game is still down

[Calahan]

Ich, just PMed you about my notification emails.

[hunt11]

why hasn't the next turn hosted yet?

[Omnirizon]

i don't know. there is some weirdness going on. if you log onto the server in game, it has rolled over to the next turn interval time-wise. however the turn has not hosted. if you log onto the turn page via the website, it shows there is still about an hour left before it hosts.

i'm guessing that it will host when the timer on the website indicates it will; i'm not sure why the in-game interval and the website interval are out of sync though.

Jomon is the holdup. I PM'd them, but I doubt they will receive it in time. the person probably thought they've already done their turn, and isn't checking in to the server. does this server not send out reminder emails?

[Omnirizon]

oh wait!!!

time remaining is in the negative, so its is passed the hosting. never hosted, and is now going into negative time. very weird. i don't know what to do. i wish jomon would do their turn, maybe that would fix it.

[ghostwes]

Might be similar to the problem I had earlier (due to me using WinXp, apparently.) It was showing that I had not moved even though I had.

[MX]

Ich turned off (or forgot to turn on) the timer for our game, I guess.

[ghostwes]

Anyone need water gems? I have a source of them now and am willing to trade for death gems or cash.

Kind of a funny event: a very large group of militia joined my cause. This would be great if it weren't for Ermor's little problem with people dropping dead from lack of resources. They'll all starve to death before I can use them for anything, heh. It does inflate my army count, however.

[lch]

Omnirizon said:
time remaining is in the negative, so its is passed the hosting. never hosted, and is now going into negative time. very weird. i don't know what to do. i wish jomon would do their turn, maybe that would fix it.

The server was rebooted for a system upgrade. The turn notifications script doesn't read the actual game timer from the networked game, but just operates on the time of the last hosting. If the server timer gets reset, it gets confused.

Other than that, nothing crazy should have happened. Or did it?

[Omnirizon]

nothing weird game-wise. the server was just counting into negative time.

[lch]

Yeah, that's nothing to be afraid of. But since it is upsetting people regularly I should really address it. I'll add something to my server startup scripts that will reset the counter when I start the game. Quite an obvious solution, actually.