Another Newbie Slugfest - Restarted - Page 8

Aku · #71 November 5th, 2004, 01:43 PM

Just Beorne and Boron left for their turns.

Steerpike · #72 November 5th, 2004, 10:48 PM

The scene; A boy pesters his Grandfather.
"What happened at the battle? Please tell me."
Sighs."Well boy it wasnt pretty, I wont go into the details because its not for young ears, suffice to say the militia lost all their 'Pincer men' in the first attack and the rest broke like rabbits running from dogs. Hulfgar was one of the first to turn and run but despite being in the rear his ... ahhh ... belly betrayed him and he was felled before going twenty strides."
"What happened to you Grandfather?"
"I cant run so fast boy so I just sat where I was."
"Why didnt they kill you?"
"Well it turns out these giants were looking for one such as I. They have scouts you see but they are very expensive to pay so they have decided to recruit scouts and messengers from their vassal provinces. And for whatever reason they chose me."
"Your going to be a scout??"
"Dont be so surprised boy, scouts dont just have to be sneaky they can be inconspicuous too. Who would suspect an old man of being a scout. An Im good with pigeons too."
"But that means your going to leave us." A tear wells up in the boys eye.
"Aye boy, but thats not so bad, its an adventure for the old man, it will be great. And frankly its already getting too cold for these old bones. No it will be my Last great epic journey."
"I hate the giants!" The boy turns and runs away.
"Not as much as their enemies will boy, not as much as their enemies."

Steerpike · #73 November 6th, 2004, 02:50 AM

Thanks for the champions trident boys. Feel free not to compete again if deathmarch comes up.

Aku · #74 November 6th, 2004, 12:32 PM

Yeah I found that a bit funny that 11 nations and only one person entered lol. My excuse is that I didn't have anyone available to go to the tourney.

Grim Knight · #75 November 6th, 2004, 05:52 PM

Sorry Guys, It looks like the RAID array in my server just went kaput.

The game files were on my 4 disk Striped RAID array, and it looks like one of the drives in the array just went kaput.

For those of you who don't know what this means, let me just be clear, if the drive does not revive then the entire array is gone forever, I will have to swap in a new drive and rebuild the array.

I am truly sorry, this was out of the blue with no prior indications, i.e. no funny noises or anything. Just BAM! gone.

The drive in question is not spinning up at all right now, which may indicate a broken connection between the power plug and the rest of the drive, if this is all that it is there is a possibility that with a little solder and a lot of luck I may be able to revive the drive and thus the array.

My prior experience however leads me to think this is just wishful thinking and it is likely that the problem is not so simple and / or the sudden loss of power to one drive in the array while the others kept going may have corrupted all the data and the array may not come back even if I can revive this drive.

Forunetly I did a full backup of the drive 41 days ago, and most of the data has remained static. So even if the game is a total loss the rest of my data is still ok.

Once again I am sorry. I am willing to host again once I get everything squared away if you guys are still interested after this disaster. Unfortunetly this was the only system that had no direct Users, it just sat in the background storing data, it was almost never rebooted and up until now very stable.

I only have 1 other system in the house that is under my direct control, and it is the one I do all my day to day stuff on, and thus it gets rebooted a lot more often than the server.

Anyway I will shut up now and see if I can fix this drive.

Sorry again,

Grim Knight

Grim Knight · #76 November 6th, 2004, 06:02 PM

As a Postscript to the above if I do host again, I will learn from this and write a simple batch file that I can run every time I take my turn that copies the Folder with the turns in it to another computer on my network. The data thus backed up on two entirely separate computer systems would be pretty safe.

This would allow for a pretty reliable backup that in a worst case scenario would only result in a 1 turn setback instead of total loss. If I had been thinking at all I would have been doing that with this game and we would have been back up and running as soon as the server was back Online.

Anyways just a thought, I will now get back to the problem at hand. This is so frustrating!

Again, I am profusely sorry about this,

Grim Knight

archaeolept · #77 November 6th, 2004, 06:59 PM

not that this is any of my concern, but why in heck would you be running a server on a 4 disk striped array? (lol)

you have the disks for a nice raid 1 + 0, or even a jbod would run only a quarter the risk of losing any given data...

PashaDawg · #78 November 6th, 2004, 08:04 PM

Oh Well... I am willing to restart whenever. Or, perhaps, we could try this game PBEM.

deccan · #79 November 6th, 2004, 08:30 PM

I'm good for a restart too. I find it quite funny that I wake up on Sunday morning, check out the forums, and immediately see that a bunch of games have problems, not just this one, Inland Melee, Pantheons, etc. Must be a bad luck day for a Dominions 2 MP player. lol

PashaDawg · #80 November 6th, 2004, 08:35 PM

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deccan said:
I'm good for a restart too. I find it quite funny that I wake up on Sunday morning, check out the forums, and immediately see that a bunch of games have problems, not just this one, Inland Melee, Pantheons, etc. Must be a bad luck day for a Dominions 2 MP player. lol

IT'S DIVINE RETRIBUTION. Admit it. You know it. I have always known that you're a closet religious fundamentalist.