MP: 'Stillborn Noobs' Running

[tratorix]

I wouldn't mind extending, but seeing as llamaserver appears to be frozen anyway, I'm not sure if its even possible. Plus the deadlines in like an hour. Looks like nntea is gonna have to deal with this stale.

[kuketski]

Originally Posted by kasnavada

Actually all games are stuck yesterday at noon. There's a thread about it already.

let's hope it's not something too complicated to fix and that llamabeast will have time to check it

What do we do? its technical issue, not nttea`s fault...

[marcelteaching]

Originally Posted by kuketski

but im at work and working day is just started!
can you prolong turn to 12 more hours and resend me his turn? then, when ill be home, i can make my turn.
and how do i play 2 nations? i shall delete my old .2h file and start over with his .trn?

Hi,

Firstly, in response to Kuketski's passionate request :

Hosting postponed for stillbornnoobs by 12 hours. The game will now host at 19:17 GMT on Thursday June 16th.

This is a one-off. In future, if anyone cannot move, and has not organised a turn, they will simply move without having made one. This is in fairness of the changes we have already made to 36 hours.

I will ask for a sub to be found on the board, and you can try too. If we find one, let me know the email. If we cannot find one quickly, he will stall. If he misses a second time, his assets will be transferred to Kuketski and he will be set to AI.

Secondly, I think you misunderstood. I do not personally have an issue with a team member taking a turn, I think it is awesome. However, previously Alex (Machaka) had technical problems, and I took the turn for him. When I sent the move in, the computer figured that I had given someone else my CD-KEY and decided to recind my instructions (because my turn and alex's were processed from a copy of Dominions with the same key). Therefore, a sub needs to be someone with a UNIQUE cdkey. That is what I meant.

The result was that I had to wind the game back one turn, resubmit the moves (which we could because the problem was fixed) and then make the server host.

So the reason I won't do it, is because it won't work, not because I don't want to.

Hope you understand.

What I am interested in trying is this - We find a permanent 'sub' whose job it is simply to 'accept' a .2h done by a buddy, open it, save it (so the new .2h contains the coding of the sub, not the buddy) and then ship it back to the partner, who can upload it. Wanna give it a go?

I'll try and see if someone is interested.

Marcel.

[marcelteaching]

So, if I am reading this right, nttea DID move, but can't post? That would be different, we would simply all stall it until we can all resume. I assumed we had not heard from Nttea and I didn't know about the error. Can someone post an URL to where this is discussed?

I would also welcome any suggestions as to how we can arrange to take each others turns in case we need a sub.

Marcel

[marcelteaching]

Begging for a sub here --> http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...941#post778941

[aaminoff]

> Hosting postponed for stillbornnoobs by 12 hours. The game will now host at 19:17 GMT on Thursday June 16th.

Unfortunately there does indeed seem to be a problem with llamaserver. It sounds to me like nttea did actually submit a turn, but llamaserver has not processed or acknowledged it. So it is possible that when llama gets around to fixing the server, nttea's turn will be in the pipeline, get read, and then quickhost will immediately cause the turn to be processed. However if nttea's turn in queue does not get processed, it would be unfortunate to end up with a stale. So I would recommend a fairly generous time extension, perhaps as much as 24 hours or more, renewed periodically as long as the server is down. This is to give nttea time to check the forums to find out that llamaserver is working again and then resend the turn. Most likely it will not matter since the turn is in the queue and quickhost will just happen.

[nttea]

hey! i submitted a turn no need to look for a sub! i've been active this whole time, sorry for not keeping up with this thread as much as i should have.

[aaminoff]

Sorry, ignore that previous post. The game page still shows the original deadline, which means that marcel's request to change the deadline is stuck in thq queue just as the turn is, so trying to change the deadline is pointless.

[marcelteaching]

Yeah!!! I thought it was a bit odd!! Welcome back buddy! Yeah don't worry, we will all wait till this is sorted.

We will keep looking for a sub, just in case one of us ever can't take a turn. It is good as a backup. They might just not be very busy, lol.

[marcelteaching]

Well, while we are all waiting, feel free to sign up for a new noob game to run concurrently with this one. Notable changes are that it includes some mods to make priests more interesting to use.

Until the game is back, we can have some fun experimenting with pretender builds in SP.

You guys are all welcome.