EA Game Strolling, part 2 - send in pretenders

johnarryn · #1 July 23rd, 2008, 11:32 AM

Hey folks. Due to some personal matters, I am forced to withdraw from all the games I am currently playing. I've chosen to set myself to AI (which I normally hate to do) rather than look for a substitute because I don't want to delay the game any longer than I already have. Thank you for your understanding.

Kadelake · #2 July 23rd, 2008, 11:53 AM

Sorry to see you go

I hope everything turns out well for you.

Wrana · #3 July 23rd, 2008, 05:53 PM

Sorry too. Good by and good luck!
Anyway, is there somebody who is admining the game? I had some strange results for this turn: namely, the number of games I have isn't equal with what I had at the end of last one, plus gem income. There is probably 1 other bug... Did anyone else have something similarly strange?

Herode · #4 July 23rd, 2008, 06:29 PM

Confirmed.
I lost gems of all types (8 fire, 5 air, etc...) but no blood slaves.

Wokeye · #5 July 23rd, 2008, 08:01 PM

GG Johnarryn, been a great war against your Abysian armies - mostly Yomi and I losing battles in various (fiery) ways.

As for the gems - I didnt notice, but can check...

Kadelake · #6 July 24th, 2008, 05:25 AM

I seem to have lost several as gems.

Wrana · #7 July 24th, 2008, 05:29 AM

So, while admin is missing, I'll try to write Llamabeast...

llamabeast · #8 July 24th, 2008, 06:06 AM

Hmm, very strange. I've had a good poke around, but there's no sign of anything untoward, so I'm stumped frankly.

I did a lot of work on the LlamaServer last night, and I was a bit tired, so it's possible I did something funny. However, the good news is that I've now completely finished work on the server itself - I managed to tick off every single feature on my to-do list (still a bit more to do on the web server, but that's separate). So I will hopefully never again have to manually go poking through files, and since I often seem to cause mayhem when I do that that should definitely be a good thing. Indeed, I am crossing my fingers for the rate of issues on the server falling to about zero, because it can now cope with lots of messy things all by itself and should be self-sufficient now.

However, even if I _did_ go bananas and do something weird to Strolling last night, I don't think there's anything I could do to make you lose gems. The only way to get this kind of weirdness in general is if a game is rehosted and someone uses the wrong instance of a trn file to take their turn. I don't think that's possible here.

I should perhaps explain that all the LlamaServer does, so far as Dominions is concerned, is put all the files for a game in the same folder and run Dominions. So there is very little room for subtle errors.

Right, so the net result of all that rambling is - I don't think I can do anything, sorry - hope it doesn't cause problems. I can't imagine how it could be a server issue, but apologies just in case I made some bizarre bungle.

Salamander8 · #9 July 25th, 2008, 06:05 PM

Sorry to see you go johnarryn. I hope everything is alright.

Wrana · #10 July 27th, 2008, 08:25 AM

As I haven't found the sub for now and it seems that Kadelake would also be away, maybe we should pause the game? What everyone thinks?