Same here

Please email the mods with the gameID.

You are a man among men, when your fellow players do not want to play with you again remind them of this, I'm sure it will help.

nicely executed Nigee. Very dry.

@Gen

Can you email the mods with which of your games didn't process correctly?

Yes after I cook dinner

Yeah, what is the mod's email?

[email protected]

@Gen

Any chance you could spend the 10 seconds it takes to send an email now, so we can get this problem resolved quickly?

Alright, I will send an email. While the serve was down, I was very upset and look at other online Diplomacy, and this Webdiplomacy is the best. So, I am back here. LoL.

I recommend deducting a point from yourself because your orders were not marked as ready before the deadline. Or did I get the wrong thread?

Damn, sorry about that. We do have code which is supposed to detect when processing has failed for a certain length of time and pause it from then on, and I've never seen it fail before.
Ill look into how processing continued while the system was down for everyone else, and put some new measures into place to keep it from happening..

Alright, I sent the email with the time stamp when I log on, when the turn supposed to turn, and when I relogged on again.

I checked two other online game sites, none of them have the game play-back feature like this site. It puzzles me why other folks don't do it. Once I have it here, I will refuse to play in any site without this feature. You got to see how the game progress and learn what's going on, step-by-step. It's a no brainer.

Yes, it is very nice being able to look through the turns. It does also consume a lot of database space though, perhaps that is why other sites do not do it.

Ah hah, that's why the diskspace runs out. LoL.

What's the worst that could happen? It's not like the server is going to run out of disk space.

Let see, 40, 000 games are archived, each game had no more than 20 players and each player made no more than 20 turns. Total turns to be saved is: 40K * 20 * 20 = 16 Millions saved turns. Each turns need no more than 1k bytes to be saved (100 bytes for location, and 900 bytes for chat texts). Hmm...That is only 16M * 1k bytes = 16 Gig of hard drive.

A typical hard-drive is at the order of hundred of Gig. Is my calculation off?

Sorry abge wife was yelling at me from the other room to get the burgers going, I apologize I didn't see your response.

I had two games run ar exactly 7:45 (when the server returned?) Luckily I had orders in but was playing with them in one when it crashed and stabbed my ally cause I couldn't change the orders back before it ran. I think any game that had turns pending and should have run during the downtime auto executed before the time was added.

@Draug

It's not exactly clear what happened with those games. Luckily, it was very few.

@Meep

There are 5 turns per year and 20 years per turn, so it should be 40K*20*100.

Also, keep in mind along with chat, there are also PNG images. I do not think they are rerendered every time (although I could be wrong).

*20 years per game.

You are posting too frequently, please slow down.
You are posting too frequently, please slow down.

Well I think my two are OK. I explained it to my ally and hope he understands.

Meep you assume too.much in your assessment. With all the messages plua the forum and registration records and images from game files and PMs... You severely underestimate the MySQL requirements. Add in the OS and Apache and MySQL software and it starts to get up there. Finally, The site is hosted by a hosting company at a remote facility. It isn't sitting in Kestas' basement where he can just take a donation amd go buy a hard drive. He got what he could afford based on our donation levels (guess that extra $100 I sent was timed just right).

And before you whine, try fucking donating. I consider most on here ipstanding people even if they don't donate but someone who complains about down time.yet jasn't given a fucking cent or hour of his time is a fucking freeloader.

Oh amd each location on the board needs to know what unit is there and who owns the SC so more than a byte per location.

My much more informed estimate is around 100 gig not counting.cached images and OS and forum and PMs and registration records.

"And before you whine, try fucking donating. I consider most on here ipstanding people even if they don't donate but someone who complains about down time.yet jasn't given a fucking cent or hour of his time is a fucking freeloader"

Come on guys, don't supersize or KFC or Taco Bell yourself to death, US$100 is less than $2 a week, less than 30c a day or 1c an hour.

1c an hour =
24c a day
$1.68 a week
$87.36 a year

Is this game and this website worth 1c an hour to you?
If not then what is it worth?