PBW status

[Roanon]

I'll be gone in about 11 hours. Problem with manual processing is that for fairness reasons, opportunity to submit a turn should be given to the 4 still missing players, who could have tried submitting the turn in the Last 6 mins remaining before deadline when the server was switched off. At least Hippocrates was interrupted in the middle of uploading, as already posted. Really bad bad timing - just 10 mins later and everything would have been fine. Bad luck.

NGC is a 20 player game with roughly 250 systems, about half of the players remaining and I own my share of the map plus 1 or 2 systems. Really not the game for a replacement player, he would need hours just to find through.

I guess the turn will be run manually a few seconds after I will have left, counting on my bad luck. If I can't download a copy before leaving so I can do an emergency turn on the weekend and try to get a turn or email into pbw somehow on monday, I will have no chance. I'll email Tesco depending on what will have happend before I leave, switching the game to ALPU for next turn might be an option that could save me.

Too bad, it was planned ahead to work with optimal timimg, now it has turned into maximum disaster timing just because of 6 minutes...

[tesco samoa]

hey you have it uploaded

[geoschmo]

tesco samoa said:
hey you have it uploaded

No, it's not this turn he's concerned about. It's the next turn after this one runs. It would have already run and he could have done his next turn, except for me taking the server down this afternoon, and turning off auto turns when I brought it back up.

[teal]

Thanks for waiting everyone! I tried to upload for NGC4 during the Last six minutes before deadline and of course the server was down. I'm very glad you didn't run the turn without me!

Also, I think that we should not play without Roanon as he is a vital player and very commited to this game in general. It doesn't seem right to mess up his plans due to a weird outage like this.

Teal

[Roanon]

As suspected, I have to leave now and cannot even grab the latest results, as the turn still has not run. This means I will not be able to do anything for NGC4 for a few days. Have sent an email to Tesco, I hope he will let me catch up - I need to do at least an emergency turn with a few adjustments, I haven't prepared for this disaster as I couldn't foresee this.

Maintenance downtime seems to become more frequent now - how about a regular schedule, Geo? This way, everything would be less turbulent, autoturns could be switched back a few hours after downtime if it is announced like 24 hours ago, I think.

[tesco samoa]

well if it is RTV Detrain game. It ran on the 10th. And is scheduled to run on the 12th.

[geoschmo]

Unfortunatly scheduling downtime is difficult for me. I don't always know in advance when I will have time to do what I have to do. On the bright side most of the recent downtime has been leading up to what I was finally able to accomplish yesterday. The primary server is offline and we are running on the backup server. I will be shipping the primary to Tesco now and the only scheduled downtime in the foreseeable future will be when we bring the primary back Online and get it up to date. That probably won't be for a couple weeks. I'll try to give you more advanced warning though.

[geoschmo]

Auto turns are now back on.

[Renegade 13]

So sorry Roanan, and all other NGC4 players...I would have had my turn uploaded long ago, but my internet suddenly decided to die for the past 3 or 4 days. I hate being the Last to upload, and causing (in part) the problem with Roanan. Hopefully it can be resolved, and he can get his turns in when needed.

[Alneyan]

Looks like the "PBW local downfall" problem has come back to haunt me. Is anybody willing to take care of uploading a few turns for me? Not many, just the games screaming for a turn to be uploaded. I trust the problem will resolve itself as previously, but I cannot say for sure. Thanks!