KingMaker - let the Ascension War commence!

[Zeldor]

Xietor:

That looks bad:

20:30 GMT on Monday September 15th Hosting delayed by 48 hours.
20:33 GMT on Monday September 15th Hosting delayed by 48 hours.
21:07 GMT on Monday September 15th Hosting delayed by 48 hours.

I hope it gets switched to max 24h after server getting back online.

[Jazzepi]

Okay, I now have power.

Llamaserver is pooping a proverbial brick. It's unable to take turns for some people, and it seems to be repeating commands like crazy. I requested a resend of my turn for a certain game, and I got 15 different copies of that resent turn like 3 hours later.

I'm going to keep extending the game timer until llamabeast returns or the issues with turn submission get sorted out.

Jazzepi

[Meglobob]

Llamaserver could well be down until the Llama himself comes back, he is due back on the 20th.

Apparently, it could well be the victim of hurricane Ike. The mailing account used by Llamaserver is down due to damage caused by Ike.

Even if it comes back, it will likely be chaos, as it gets bombarded by emails and whatnot.

[Darkwind]

I was afraid I'd stale! You see, I live in Ohio. Ohio just had a hurricane (albeit a minor one) and is currently in a state of emergency (or so I've heard) due to said hurricane. My power was out for two days. Fortunately I haven't staled, since that would spell the end of Ulm.

Ike really did a lot of damage.

[Xietor]

Ike was not a hurricane when it hit Ohio. With all due respect, it was not even a tropical storm any more. Likely just got some high winds and thunderstorms.

But if you thought the remnants of Ike was a hurricane, you can imagine what Texas
went through. Ike was a category 2 hurricane when it made landfall in Texas

But being without Power sucks, regardless of the cause. Glad you did not stale!.

[Foodstamp]

I don't get why hurricanes are such a big deal nowadays. When I lived on the Gulf Coast I went through a cat 4 , cat 3 and cat 2 at landfall. It was a scary deal but not nearly as scary as a tornado. Now it seems like if a cat 2 makes landfall somewhere it is the apocalypse. Must be lower lay of the land in those areas or something, but hurricanes have really become a dramatic ordeal.

It used to be: If you lived right on the water you headed north. If you lived atleast 10+ miles inland, you boarded up/taped your windows and bought enough food to ride it out. When it was over, you cleaned up your yard and did whatever repairs you needed to do and talked about it with your friends for a few weeks.

Now it seems like people want to stay in their waterfront homes to show how tough they are, and the inland people can't cope with cleaning their yard up. Then it becomes a big media circus as people are rescued off the rooftop of their ocean front home.

I think the exception to this rule is Katrina. I don't think enough was done to warn people how bad it was going to be, a hurricane hitting a city in a bowl. But Ike shouldn't have been such a serious event.

Either way, I hope the people involved in Ike are able to get their homes/lives back in order when they get power on and get back in.

[Zeldor]

Foodstamp:

I guess it is about huge amount of people getting homes [even whole cities] where nothing should be built. Most of the times with hurricanes, floods etc it comes to situations like that.

[Foodstamp]

I blame it on republicans. If we elect a democrat president hurricanes will stop.

[Darkwind]

I remember my family said that someone on the news said (or perhaps someone heard that someone on the news said, or perhaps someone heard from their aunt in Mississippi that her friend in Connecticut had heard someone on the news said, etc.) Ike was a category 1 when it hit Ohio.

Upon checking Wikipedia, it seems wind levels in Columbus near where I live) were equivalent to that of a level 1 hurricane. Not much rain though, and Wikipedia isn't the best of sources (or so everyone I know says).

[Jazzepi]

There was no rain where I was in Columbus, but the winds were really bad. I lost a tree in my front yard, and near my mother's old house a woman lost half of her roof.

Jazzepi