No Diplo EA Game - No Wankers Allowed - Game Over, Baalz/Abysia Wins

[Ragnars Wolves]

I am sending this message for someone else so his identity will be kept secret.

He has tried to resend in his pretender He deleted his old one from his file to change some things (wanted to see if that was the problem), and resent new one to....pretenders@llamaserver.net and subject line NoWankersAllowed.

It won't take it...with the problems llamaserver is having he is wondering if that is the problem. I believe he is about the last pretender to be sent in and doesn't want to miss the game so any help would be appreciated.

[Ragnars Wolves]

Hopefully problem solved and Pretender sent in....forgot the _ between names on the subject line....Sorry to bother you

[Executor]

One pretender still missing, Yomi, you better get your ars in within 24 hours or I'm starting the game without you, 3 days to resend pretenders is more than generous.

[Calahan]

Ok all, I'm sort of back from dealing with my unexpected RL affairs. I likely won't be fully back to normal running until I clear the backlog of RL and work stuff that built up during my unexpected absence, but I'm back enough to resume admin duties here.

I have contacted the guilty party (with regards holding the start up), so hopefully that player won't keep everyone waiting too long now. I haven't gone through the thread yet, but can whoever created the game please PM me the password. Since my admin powers could be pretty limited without it

[Calahan]

I'll give the missing player another ~12 hours (to allow for timezones) to report in, otherwise I'll get this show on the road with 18 players.

The various problems have already seen the start of this game delayed too long, and the missing player has had plenty of time already to re-upload for take2. Plus if the player hasn't checked this thread at all, and so doesn't know a re-upload is needed, then that player's attention and interest in this game can't be too high to start with IMO. So better out than in.

[Calahan]

@ All - I'm out of the office for the rest of the day now, but I will be starting this game once I get home with or without the missing player. I should be home by around 22:00 GMT, so expect the game to start around that time. (I've just PM-ed the missing player to tell them it's last chance saloon for their Pretender submission)

[Calahan]

Ok everyone, I've just started the game for the second time, and once again it appears to have disappeared

I think there is a problem with the llamaserver, as the map selection and browser page isn't working correctly, as it's not updating the info displays when you select different maps. Although the old browser seems to be working fine. (maybe we broke it when we uploaded the map?!??)

I contacted llamabeast regarding this earlier this afternoon (when I thought it was just a map browsing problem) but I'll contact him again now as it appears to be a more fundamental problem with the server that is preventing games from starting. Although having said that, I have noticed other games starting recently, so maybe the problem is with using new uploaded maps.

Either way I'll contact llama, as I don't think this game is going to get started without his help.

[Calahan]

Right, I have PM-ed llama to let him know the situation. I have also tried creating another test game using a recently uploaded map, and that vanished the moment I started it as well. So there is definitely a kink in the system somewhere.

I need to get some sleep now, but while I'm waiting to hear back from llama, I might try and create test games with a few different maps until I find one that can be used to both start the game, and is suitable to our needs (there are several versions of both the Alexander and Asia Twist maps on the server, some uploaded long ago. So I'm hoping one of them will work. Although llama sprinkling some of his magic dust in our direction is still likely the prefered solution.)

[Marmaduke]

Maybe llamaserver has a profanity filter and erases games with bad words? (Just joking bro. Good luck with launching the game.)

[Calahan]

Ok everyone, I've done some testing this morning (many apologies to llamabeast for spamming his server with fake games ) and it appears the Alexander map has vanished. As I tried starting games with 3 different version of it, and all went up in smoke the moment I started them. (but then I tried starting a game with the recently added Land of Legends map as well, and that also vanished when I started it. But another game recently started using it with (it seems) no problems. Just odd all round basically ?!?!)

But I just tried starting a game with the Asia Twist map, and that started just fine.

So my next course of action is to try re-uploading our version of the Alexander map, and the original version, and then trying to create games with those two maps. If that works, then we should be good to go for another start attempt. If it fails, then I guess other than waiting for llama (which I never like doing as he's a busy guy, and I like to see people trying to solve their own problems first), we will just have to go for the Asia Twist map that is already on the server. It apparantly has fixed starts for 16+3.

Will keep you all informed of my progress as best I can.