Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

[Nappa]

I had something really weird happen today. I played my turn and hit end turn. Immediately my turn came back up with a message that I had staled. Sure enough, every action I took during turn 30 was gone.

Anyone ever see anything like that?

[Huzurdaddi]

A couple of things come to mind as possibilities:

1) You were pretty close to the end of the time limit. You started your turn before the timer ended and while you were taking your turn ( at this point in the game turns start taking a long time ) the game hosted. Then you ended your turn which summitted the turn to the server, however it had already hosted so it told you had a stale turn and dl'ed the new turn.

2) You checked one time eariler to see if everyone had taken their turn and dl'ed your turn without you knowing. You did nothing with your turn since you did not even know that you had dl'ed it. As soon as you connected the next time the program uploaded your turn for you behind the scenes thus "playing" your turn. Since you were the Last person it quickhosted while you were doing what you thought would be your turn. When you ended your turn the client attempted to upload but found out that the previous turn had already been hosted and dl'ed the new turn.

Actually I'm betting it was #1 since it said "stale turn" I don't think ( but don't know for sure ) that the 2nd sceanrio would cause a "stale turn" message. It would just execute nothing.

[Yossar]

Nappa said:
I had something really weird happen today. I played my turn and hit end turn. Immediately my turn came back up with a message that I had staled. Sure enough, every action I took during turn 30 was gone.

Anyone ever see anything like that?

When I saw your post, I thought "I bet Nappa is playing Pangaea". Sure enough, you are. You took your turn too close to the end of the time limit and the game hosted while you were still making your moves. Nothing gets uploaded until you hit "End turn." If it's close to hosting time, make all your major moves, hit "End Turn" to make sure they get in on time, and then go back and make all the minor changes you have to and hope that you can get them in on time.

[Nappa]

Thanks guys, that makes sense. That was a painful lesson.

[baboune]

Hi,
I got a message from host saying that Mictlan is cheating?!? What is that? Something auto-generated? A bug?

[Soapyfrog]

Not sure!

[Huzurdaddi]

There have been reports on the forums that using the alchemist's stone can cause that report. So it very well could be nothing.

[Nappa]

server down?