Pitboss 27 IT and Tech Issues Thread

[HitAnyKey]

I am doing the reload right now. Do you guys want me to extend the turn timer to some different amount? Or keep it as is?
It's currently set at 50 hours.

[HitAnyKey]

Btw, hopefully someone can log in an pause it. Currently 5 1/2 hours left on the clock and if it doesn't get paused, it'll be tomorrow night before I'm able to do another reload.

[taotao]

So is this game dying? Irrelevant me can easily handle turns once per week, but the ones that really want this to see proper finish should be concerned.

I can speak for myself. My lack of engagement is temporary - I'm in the process of moving to another country and it leads to certain lack of focus. However, I expect to be fully settled by the end of August and then will play with usual regularity.

As a broader point - we have four players who have to manage 60+ cities every turn. You can't expect fast pace under these conditions.

Speaking for myself: I've been away for large parts of the last week and that's why I haven't replied here earlier. Had this been earlier in the game I would've definitely looked for a sub, but the appalling turn pace lately has sent a precedent where it felt ok to skip town for some days.
However, I did expect to at least have the last turn roll while I was away, and I do feel that we should try to go back to a turn pace of about 2 turns a week. Unless there's some 3+ players involved in a turn split I don't see how that wouldn't be possible.

As for the general state of the game I feel it'd be a shame to abandon it anytime soon. We've just reached the age of steel ships and the final outcome is far from decided. Also, a mere 8 players left should make this manageable to bring to a finish.


One thing I guess we should discuss soon is the issue brought forth in pb33, namely air bombardment. Personally I feel strongly against going sequential as that could potentially kill turn pace to a complete standstill, but I'm ok with most other solutions such as banning bombardment of strategic resources or having the last person playing the turn pausing for people to re-arrange micro.


I guess we're waiting for dtay at the moment.
Has anybody contacted him to let him know he's up??

[dtay]

I'd like to publicly apoligize, I think a lot of the turnpace problems have been my fault - over the last few months my job has basically been on death hours, and I end up both not having time to play the turn and then sometimes just forgetting about it.

I'm going to try to conscientiously focus on not holding us back going forward, fwiw this has been a pretty fun game and I'm annoyed I haven't had the time to really enjoy it.

Related facts - first post in months! Hopefully back more in the future

[BRickAstley]

Server is back up, game has been reloaded to the latest save.

[taotao]

Ahem,
we're going to need a reload here. Nobody thought to pause the game last turn and now the turn has rolled with only 2 people having finished their turns. Apologies for my part in the mess up.

[HitAnyKey]

Game reloaded.
28 hours left on the clock. Someone needs to go in and play/pause.

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Hey all, sorry the turn has been with me for quite a while. I have been unwell for quite a while, but am finally getting better. I should be able to complete the turn tomorrow, there is a little too much going on to complete it tonight.

[Gavagai]

OK, guys, need to say this. I got hit by RL very very hard. In theory, can log in and play but it wouldn't be better than AI doing things. Can't say when this period of my life ends, unfortunately, totally not happy with it myself. I have no idea if any kind of permanent sub can be found for my unflattering position but simple truth is that I can't keep up my commitment to play in this game.
Sorry all.

[Old Harry]

The server seems to have become pretty unhappy about 6-7 hours ago. Cal isn't sure that it's going to be saving games properly, so to avoid having to replay turns (especially where combat may be involved) it would be best if this game can be paused until the server can be restarted.