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

[Norfleet]

Oh, yes, let me turn that on now.

Despite submitting a turn yesterday evening (about 7pm UTC IIRC), I seem to have Staled after the 12pm processing today. Has this happened to anyone else? Have there been two turns processed since then?

Grrrr.

[Norfleet]

Hmm. We did have a phantom stale in another game, but that problem hasn't occurred again with anyone else. Did you receive any strange Messages to accompany your stale?

Other than that, the only thing I can think of is a peculiar interaction between quickhosting and timered hostings. How much time did it say you had before the hosting, prior to a stale? Hopefully you didn't miss anything of life-threatening importance.

[ July 01, 2004, 16:27: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Hmm. We did have a phantom stale in another game, but that problem hasn't occurred again with anyone else. Did you receive any strange Messages to accompany your stale?

Other than that, the only thing I can think of is a peculiar interaction between quickhosting and timered hostings. How much time did it say you had before the hosting, prior to a stale? Hopefully you didn't miss anything of life-threatening importance.

I think it must have been the second option; Last night's orders were executed (my army's in a new province etc), then I've received an extra turn's income and the Stale turn message. I didn't actually look at the "hours before hosting" indicator, unfortunately. I just assumed we were on the normal schedule.

Chazar, can we live without Quickhosting? I'd really rather do without the uncertainty it engenders, and barring Act of God, it must have been the quickhosting option that caused this.

[Chazar]

I received a stale turn as well, but fortunately I didnt loose my prophet this time, since she is still dead... (Sorry for my bad humour, but I just returned from a fun fair and I am bit drunk... )

No, seriously, the same happened again as we had begun this game, were the first quick-host didnt skip the schedule as well, which caused some minor confsion. I also assume now that quick-hosting and fixed schedule is bugged somehow whenever the server is set up. However, it seemed to work well once everything was up and running!

Therefore: I recommend to let things as they are for now, but as soon as Norfleet has to touch the server again for whatever reason (or if they are any further natural stale turns) I would vote for disabling quick-hosting once and for all. Quick-hosting is nice as it might allow us some turns on some weekends (I will be available this weekend, btw.), but it is not essential!

This is just my view on the topic and I dont want to rule what we do. All I say is: As soon as there is another quirk, then disable quick-hosting - until then, watch what happens to the counter whenever you're the Last to submit your turn!!!

Other opinions?

[Reverend Zombie]

Stale turn here, too.

Whoever vouched for this fixed time/quickhost schedule should be shot!

[ July 02, 2004, 02:30: Message edited by: Reverend Zombie ]

[Kel]

I staled again as well...
We need to figure out a fix for this. It is inconvenient and challenging now but if it happens later, it could prove devastating.

- Kel