New Dawn - EA Dawn of Dominions

lch · #1 May 4th, 2007, 10:06 AM

Okay, I'll update the server for the next turn then. Just one reminder: Do not try to connect with a 3.08 client to the server unless the server says that your 3.06 client has a too low version number. Otherwise you'll crash the server.

To save me trouble I will not turn off the quickhosting, but generate a new turn with the 3.08 server as soon as the current turn is finished. Yes, that means that the current turn is going to be processed twice - once with the 3.06 server, once with the 3.08 server. Don't complain if you didn't receive that awesome hero, found that hidden lair full of gold or won that insane battle the first but not the second time...

lch · #2 May 4th, 2007, 03:39 PM

The server is patched to 3.08 now. Anybody who downloaded the temporary new turn with the 3.06 client please delete their turn and download it again with a 3.08 client. If you are playing on other servers which are still using 3.06 then you might want to make a backup of these files before applying the patch so that you can revert:

army12.trs
battlemaps/cave3.d3m
battlemaps/cave2.d3m
battlemaps/cave1.d3m
dom3_amd64
dom3_x86
dom3.exe
flag.trs
misc.trs
res.trs

Linux commandline steps to do that:

Code:

unzip -t dompatch308_linux.zip | grep "testing:" | sed "s/.*testing: //" | sed "s/[ ]*OK//" | grep -e "[^/]$" | xargs tar czvf domprev308.tgz

If anybody has problems besides not being able to connect before applying the patch, please post about them here. I have backups...

Covenant · #3 May 5th, 2007, 04:11 PM

No problems here.

StrictlyRockers · #4 May 6th, 2007, 02:37 PM

patch seems to be working

lch · #5 May 7th, 2007, 04:07 PM

Hmm, the new turn is up. Strangely, I neither got an email nor did the webpage show a change. I investigated and noticed that some changes that I did to the stats script broke the -makecheck feature and thus didn't update the stats correctly - this is fixed. But I still didn't receive the turn notification via email, even after manually starting it for a second time. Has anybody else got an email from the server?

Covenant · #6 May 7th, 2007, 08:59 PM

Not me... odd! And very bad!

lch · #7 May 7th, 2007, 09:16 PM

Okay, sendmail was b0rked, somehow. I switched over to nbsmtp and sent out the mail again, now using an external SMTP relay. Shouldn't happen again.

P.S.: After applying pressure with a blunt object for several times on the back of the head of an admin (i.e. repeatedly hitting with a club), the sendmail/postfix thing was fixed and the mail has been sent out. I'll still stay with nbsmtp now.