Pitboss 18 IT and Tech Issues Thread

[Dhalphir]

plako you are amazing

[Old Harry]

I was searching around earlier and came across an active game on Civstats with more than 18 players. I tracked the game down to the Civ community's forum and found the game subforum. It's in Polish so I was leaning on Google Translate to get through it, but maybe there's some information there about how they got Civstats to work with more than 18 players. But as I think on it, maybe 18 isn't the threshold that needs clearing, maybe it's some other arbitrary number over 18 and less than 34 that we'd need to find.

Civstats Game - KAC Dyplo 9

Community website - Civilization.org.pl

This may be easier for a native speaker to find -- does anyone read Polish? (2metraninja?)

Barteq is going to ask the guy who runs the server if there were any problems due to the number of players - I'll let you know what he says.

If not plako's solution sounds great...

[Old Harry]

I got this back from Barteq. I presume the suggestion for having the admin civ as 33rd wouldn't work from the error message that Caledorn posted.

I guess the question is would we rather lose two civs from the game or put the effort into building the work-around. Which only the folks with the skill to put the work-around together can answer. Plako?

I have a good news and a bad news.

Good news is that civstats is normally prepared for much more users, than 18, so I shouldn't cause any problem, when you will be setting up your game.

Bad news is that it has a limitation - 32 users. I hear that other programs are shout down (like PYT), so 2 users must retire from your game.

PS You wrote, that you have one additional Admin country. So you could try to set your game up for 33 users and try to place Admin as a last one (his score want be show in civstats) - we never try this option, so I don't know if it will work. 32 will work for sure.

Regards
Barteq

[Barry Lyndon]

Okay I just go kill 2 people that should make it work.

[Dhalphir]

I'm sure that out of all the people we have, there is at least two who would be happy stepping aside as solo players and joining someone else to form a team. I volunteer myself, for a start.

I'm more worried about what it will do to the map.

[Ruff_Hi]

I've been looking for a team mate the whole game. As such - I would volunteer to team up with one of the other players.

[Catwalk]

I'd like to sit it out, I've been getting busier every week for the last two months now and I probably shouldn't commit to this. I can join the sub volunteer corps with Lewwyn, that ought to get plenty wars fired up

[Fintourist]

Well, map is made for 33 civs + lurker civ, so it's not really practical at all to make the game a 32-player game so if we can "easily" establish our own replacement site or OverloadUT can modify civstats it would be much much better..

[Old Harry]

If Ruff and Dhal team up (as Huyana of Eng or Augustus or America? I guess you get the choice...) and Catwalk drops out CivStats should work. Questions that occur:
a. Does that defeat the whole point of the game (that all 34 civs should play)?
b. Does it ruin the map? Commodore - can you remove two civs without unbalancing/causing yourself a load more work?
c. Has plako already built the work-around to allow the 34-player game to go ahead?
d. Has anyone heard back from OverloadUT?

There's no rush to make a final decision before we hear back about how easy the CivStats fix or Plako's workaround are.

[Caledorn]

I definitely wouldn't mind a dedlurker if anyone experienced is available. My skills at civ isn't really anywhere near RB level, but I also really want to play. I will do a test with 32 civs and Civstats this afternoon EU time just to be absolutely certain it works.