MP Game - Orania Semiblitz - Page 6

sergex · #51 May 9th, 2004, 09:39 AM

I picked Marignon

Zapmeister · #52 May 11th, 2004, 12:40 AM

Waiting for someone to play Abysia and T'ien Ch'i. I think we've waited long enough so I'll give it another 24 hours to fill, then start the game.

Cohen · #53 May 11th, 2004, 07:32 AM

I take Abysya!
I go create the pretender!

Zapmeister · #54 May 12th, 2004, 02:18 AM

Orania Quick has started. There is no T'ien Ch'i.
Good luck everyone! And please remember to go to computer control if you drop out.

vigabrand · #55 May 12th, 2004, 05:43 AM

Ok something strange is going on. I uploaded my pretender a while ago, and I just went in to play my turn, and that is not my pretender or scales. There wasn't even a password. What the heck is going on? The scales are so messed up, I'm pretty much screwed. Is it possible for someone else to upload over me? I'm playing Man.

Vig

Zapmeister · #56 May 12th, 2004, 05:55 AM

You have been gazumped. Unfortunately, the only available remedy is to restart the game, which I don't want to do as it has taken so long to get it started in the first place. And there would be no guarantee that another gazumping would not occur.

Many people, myself included, are desperately hoping that Illwinter will give us some protection from gazumpers in the next patch.

In the meantime, your only alternatives are to play the broken position, or go to AI.

vigabrand · #57 May 12th, 2004, 03:14 PM

wouldn't be so bad if the productivity scale wasn't -3! I'll play and see what I can do with this.

Vig

Norfleet · #58 May 12th, 2004, 08:32 PM

If your scales have been deliberately screwed over in such a fashion, this may be deliberate sabotage.

This wouldn't surprise me: It appears the game may have been sabotaged again: The system is down!

While the game shows as one minute to host....and has been doing so for nearly an hour now, it is impossible to connect: Further investigation reveals the designated port is simply not listening. Consultation of the Magic 8-Ball reveals "Outlook not so good.". Don't use Outlook, obviously. It sucks.

[ May 12, 2004, 19:32: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Esben Mose Hansen · #59 May 12th, 2004, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Norfleet:
If your scales have been deliberately screwed over in such a fashion, this may be deliberate sabotage.

This wouldn't surprise me: It appears the game may have been sabotaged again: The system is down!

While the game shows as one minute to host....and has been doing so for nearly an hour now, it is impossible to connect: Further investigation reveals the designated port is simply not listening. Consultation of the Magic 8-Ball reveals "Outlook not so good.". Don't use Outlook, obviously. It sucks.

The good news: The game wasn't saboatage, and I've fixed the game. Every single game is going to crash at next turn, unless the game owner restarts the game before then. I had to upgrade a software component --- And being lazy I just upgraded the whole shebang. Unfortunately, that means some modules have changed names, and so on.

The bad news: This has effectively reset the counter to 18hours. So next turn will be a while. But then Abysia and Atlantis might take their turn and solve that little problem.

As for the sabotage of vigabrand: If anyone is going to be sabotaged, I'd think it would be Norfleet --- since he is rumored to be the best player. So for my money, someone was just plain incompetent. I'll have to work on some strategies to prevent this --- see the main server thread. My condolescense to vigabrand :-( Take it as a challenge or become computer controlled and start a new game. It is not as though it takes very long to get a enough players....

Maybe we should all use this strategy in the game: Strike at Norfleet! ;-) ;-) (Peter will know what I mean. )

Norfleet · #60 May 12th, 2004, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
As for the sabotage of vigabrand: If anyone is going to be sabotaged, I'd think it would be Norfleet --- since he is rumored to be the best player. So for my money, someone was just plain incompetent.

Well, it helps that I've developed the paranoid habit of constantly reuploading myself.

Perhaps you should set it so that if a slot is claimed by a player, and somebody overwrites it, the player who is overwritten is either notified, or the slot becomes anonymous again. Either way, then the player in question is warned.

Alternatively, you can implement my web-based game start idea, which will also allow us to crack down on AWOLers by blacklisting them on detection and banning them from future games.

[ May 12, 2004, 22:44: Message edited by: Norfleet ]