MP: Mo-Fr 12.00hUTC fixed scheduled (running again

[Chazar]

Pickles comitted his turn now, which caused a quick hosting. The timer went up from 3hrs to 27hrs as it should, hence skipping the fixed hosting scheduled today at 12:00h. So everything seems to work well as assumed!



@NORFLEET: I am not sure what happens if the server is restarted, however. So if you ever have to restart the server then please disable the timer, just to be sure. I guess things are fine as long as the server is not touched anymore, although I will keep an eye open on that issue. If you think that the server has to be restarted more than once in a while, then disable quick-hosting for the remaining game, please. The benefits of QH is not worth the trouble: Its nice to have, but by no means necessary. Thank you!

OW! Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!

Plague on turn three kills half the population in my home province. Misfortune is its own reward, but that's a really unpleasant way to start a game.

OW!

[Norfleet]

Life is like a sandwich. Some days you eat the sandwich, other days the sandwich eats you.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:
OW! Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!

Plague on turn three kills half the population in my home province. Misfortune is its own reward, but that's a really unpleasant way to start a game.
OW!

In the future, remember - the latrines go downstream from the cooking and drinking water.

[Chazar]

Yeah, pretty bad luck. Thats why I always take some fortune: Not because its worthwhile gamewise, but because it keeps my pretenders morale up...


Anyway, you're not alone having a bad time: I should've played a Solo against Independent 6 to learn what that means before...

...but isnt it a bad idea to whine about an ongoing game, especially with statistics turned off? "Ally with the stronger, prey upon the weak"?

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Oh, by the way, I wont be able to do some extra turns this weekend, although it seems going to be pretty rainy around here...

[ June 23, 2004, 07:48: Message edited by: Chazar ]

Originally posted by Chazar:

...but isnt it a bad idea to whine about an ongoing game, especially with statistics turned off? "Ally with the stronger, prey upon the weak"?

Yes, but more important is; "when liable to early elimination, get your excuses in early and loudly".

[Chazar]

I really hate to raise the topic again; although the things I said about quickhosting seem right, there might be a small pitfall that I feel compelled to warn you about again:

Suppose you submit your turn on friday evening, satisfying the next schedule on monday. Hence your next deadline is tuesday noon. Correct.

Now it is a rainy saturday and you check the server again. There had been a quickhost and you happily do and submit your turn again. Now it is wrong to assume that you already satisfied the tuesday deadline as well and that you wont have to do a turn until wednesday!

The pitfall here is that this thinking is usually ok, but not necessarily so: There might be a second quickhost on sunday which consumes your turn, and this second quickhost will not skip the tuesday deadline, since the monday deadline has not passed yet. Hence:

Never rely on that two consecutive deadlines will be skipped!

Do not expect quickhosting to give you more time than you would have in a fixed schedule without quickhosting, although you will experience this sometimes...

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Mark the merciful: Yes, but more important is; "when liable to early elimination, get your excuses in early and loudly".

Ahh yes, robbing the winner of his pride; a classical revenge in death. How merciful of you...

[ June 23, 2004, 09:43: Message edited by: Chazar ]