New & raw web based Dominion II game server

Huzurdaddi · #1 September 17th, 2004, 11:10 PM

Esben Mose Hansen,

you rock. It's just that simple.

archaeolept · #2 September 19th, 2004, 04:52 PM

esben does rock

but you know how he could rock even harder? by implementing a "force to anonymous" option or some other sort of force kick. Too often someone joins but doesn't register in the thread, and so ignores a game's special rules. I've almost needed to have this option before, and the only way at the moment is to nuke the whole game and recreate it...

Esben Mose Hansen · #3 September 19th, 2004, 05:12 PM

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archaeolept said:
...by implementing a "force to anonymous" option or some other sort of force kick. Too often someone joins but doesn't register in the thread, and so ignores a game's special rules. I've almost needed to have this option before, and the only way at the moment is to nuke the whole game and recreate it...

Just drop me an email or PM when you need to do this. At some point I'll�get annoyed enough to implement it

archaeolept · #4 September 19th, 2004, 05:20 PM

lol heh thanks esben

though really, what would be great now that zen is coming out w/ these very interesting "conceptual balance" mods, is integrating a mod dropdown menu in game creation...

;-)

Esben Mose Hansen · #5 September 20th, 2004, 05:44 AM

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lol heh thanks esben

though really, what would be great now that zen is coming out w/ these very interesting "conceptual balance" mods, is integrating a mod dropdown menu in game creation...

;-)

That I will make, as soon as I find the time to do so. That should shut up 95% of the "I hate [clams/VQ/False Horror/...] threads until they are backed up by testing :-D

Besides, the code is essentially the same as for maps, so it shouldn't be that hard to do.

jimbo · #6 September 21st, 2004, 10:20 AM

Several people (all?) cannot get past the waiting for game data screen on on the Musical Chairs game...I know this problem happens once in a while and the workaround is to just keep trying and eventually you get past it but that doesn't seem to be working now...I am wondering if the new patch has made this intermittent problem harder to get past...

Any other games/players having this problem?

archaeolept · #7 September 21st, 2004, 01:48 PM

no, the fix is almost always to have the owner of the game stop and restart the game.

Esben Mose Hansen · #8 September 21st, 2004, 05:30 PM

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archaeolept said:
no, the fix is almost always to have the owner of the game stop and restart the game.

As an extra bonus, this should bring the game to 2.14, where another network bug should have been squashed... so maybe the problem will disappear all together

jimbo · #9 September 22nd, 2004, 08:07 AM

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no, the fix is almost always to have the owner of the game stop and restart the game.

Well, if you aren't having players persistently try to get past the Waiting for Game data screen by killing the process and trying to reconnect for at least 5 or 6 times in a row then you are missing a solution that works for many of us most of the time.

But the more important question I suppose is was it really necessary for you to come across as a know it all *** in your reply?

If you have alternate information there are better, more polite ways to communicate it than the terse slap down approach you chose to use - which this community is largely devoid of and most of us would like to keep that way.

Thufir · #10 September 27th, 2004, 12:47 AM

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Esben Mose Hansen said:

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archaeolept said:
...by implementing a "force to anonymous" option or some other sort of force kick. Too often someone joins but doesn't register in the thread, and so ignores a game's special rules. I've almost needed to have this option before, and the only way at the moment is to nuke the whole game and recreate it...

Just drop me an email or PM when you need to do this. At some point I'll�get annoyed enough to implement it

Esben, I just wanted to point out that this feature would get some use in a number of cases where the game owner was not forced to PM you in order to get the person off. Although I've never once been forced to PM you to get someone off, if this feature existed I'm sure that I would have used it four or five times in the course of the four games I've started up. IMO, it's something that could speed up game start times by a day or so, and would reduce the frequency of borked pretender uploads.

That's not to say that this feature should be a top priority. I'm sure most of us would rather see your very valuable time used to implement the mod dropdown option.

I'm just trying to say that if you're not getting any PMs, that does not indicate that this is a zero-value feature.

BTW, shouldn't we get this thread moved to the new Server-Multiplayer forum?