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Valerius · #**151** January 18th, 2011, 03:23 AM

I noticed Pan's turn was missing so I've postponed hosting by 24 hours.

Sephorin · #**152** January 18th, 2011, 02:59 PM

Thanks for keeping an eye out for me, Valerius. I got it in just under the wire. That deadline really snuck up on me this time.

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Originally Posted by Valerius

I noticed Pan's turn was missing so I've postponed hosting by 24 hours.

rotarr · #**153** January 25th, 2011, 05:05 AM

I think we need a rollback. For the second time in a row I'm getting back a "FirstBlood: Dominions error on hosting" message from the Llamaserver...

Valerius · #**154** January 25th, 2011, 06:01 AM

I meant to ask about this.

I received a message that Dominions crashed on hosting last turn and this turn but according to the server there were no stales. Is everyone getting stales or just rotarr? And I assume they are actual stales not just a message saying so?

llamabeast · #**155** January 25th, 2011, 06:45 AM

Hello! So, I have noticed that dominions failed to host this game twice in the last few days (each time it paralyses the server for quite a long time before I have to manually stop hosting). So what have you all experienced? Has it been like:

- Sent in a 2h file, got an e-mail saying hosting had failed, got a new turn file in which you'd staled
- Carried on regardless, sent in another 2h file for the next turn, same thing happened?

Just to be clear, have you rolled back at all?

Sorry about this - it's a bug in dominions, but it's pretty annoying when it happens. I will try to take a look tonight and see if anything can be done.

rotarr · #**156** January 25th, 2011, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by llamabeast

- Sent in a 2h file, got an e-mail saying hosting had failed, got a new turn file in which you'd staled
- Carried on regardless, sent in another 2h file for the next turn, same thing happened?

This is exactly what happened to me. We didn't do any roll backs yet.

I believe the others also may have staled (at least the first time, didn't check out the latest turn) since I (or rather my scouts) didn't see any other player's battles or movements either.

Nightfall · #**157** January 25th, 2011, 09:31 AM

Exactly the same here...

Sephorin · #**158** January 25th, 2011, 11:24 AM

Yes, essentially the game has not hosted for two turns now. It's like the server did not receive any of our files. I sent in a fresh 2h each time and received a normal reply from the server.

llamabeast · #**159** January 25th, 2011, 11:59 AM

Okay, the server is actually working as designed. It goes through this process:

- Try to host the game as normal
- If hosting fails (dom3 crashes or takes infinite time), try removing all the players' 2h files, and try again.

The reason being that sometimes the game will crash as a result of an action by players, e.g. a battle which causes some glitch. I expect that someone's orders would indeed lead to such a battle, and they've given roughly the same orders twice in a row so that the issue has recurred.

The trouble is that it's hard to guess what might cause the crash, unless it's something obviously demanding like a battle involving many thousands of troops. Is anyone trying to do a battle involving thousands of troops? I will try to look into this tonight.

Sephorin · #**160** January 25th, 2011, 12:03 PM

I personally am not trying to initiate any big battles... but I DO have a rather large number of Maenads hanging about. Those girls are tough to keep fed anyway, so I wouldn't mind getting rid of a few.