Alpaca: 10 player game to test new server(started)

llamabeast · #1 May 4th, 2007, 06:37 AM

Please can you let me know if you get any quirky behaviour going on at all? One of the players in the other game on the llamaserver had it reject one of her 2h files, even though there was nothing wrong with it. If anyone else has had anything similar, please let me know.

In fact in general, please please please report any quirky things at all, even any spelling errors in the e-mails it sends out, or if you think any of the e-mails are less clear than they could be. It would be great to have all the basic running of the server completely smooth before I open it up to more games (I'm planning to allow other people to admin games on it, so there may end up being a large number of games going without me even necessarily being involved).

GameExtremist · #2 May 4th, 2007, 08:11 AM

Okay recieved email, tried to use turn 19, 3.06 didn't accept it. Tried turn 19 with 3.08 everything worked fine.

Xietor · #3 May 5th, 2007, 04:05 AM

I thought i sent in turn 19 earlier, trying again.

DrPraetorious · #4 May 7th, 2007, 11:40 PM

All the turns are in. Is it not hosting?

llamabeast · #5 May 8th, 2007, 05:23 AM

Ahem. I turned the hosting off while I altered some code, and I appear not to have turned it back on again. Sorry about that.

llamabeast · #6 May 9th, 2007, 05:15 AM

Being as the website (not the server itself, in fact) was down a day or two back, I thought I'd just make a general comment about how the llamaserver works.

It'll _always_ check its e-mail before it hosts a turn. What that means is that if you e-mail it your turn in time, you can be sure that you won't stale, even if either the website or the server are down. It's not like a direct connect game where you can't take your turn if the host's computer is down.

Having said that I think the website going down was quite unlucky and hopefully will be a rare occurrence. And the llamaserver should in principle never go down, unless I do something stupid. Which I do fairly often, unfortunately.

DrPraetorious · #7 May 14th, 2007, 11:43 PM

Out of curiosity, if I were looking for someone to whom I would give all my gems and items - who feels they are in a good position to fight a successful war with Marignon and Pangaea? Right now I'm inclined to give all my treasures to Man, but whoever is on Marignon's southern border (or across the southern sea) is also a prospect.