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| Server fall down go boom. | Started by: Squishy on May 07, '13 00:03 |
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We had some problems with the server earlier, one small thing lead to another, then another, next thing we know it was on fire and started a small riot with the surrounding servers.
Thank you all for your extreme patience while we were sorting this out. We launched some tylers to try to offset your missed opportunities while we were down, hope you can bag some for yourself!
Once again, thanks for your patience and also a big shout out to mario for once again bailing us out with his jedi-ninja-skills. |
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Can we have more admin Durden spawns at UK friendly times? |
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| Reply by: Felix at May 07, '13 06:41 | |
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Agreed. I'm happy with the dedication in getting the game up as soon as you could. However a Durden spawn to make up for all the missed opportunities endured by those who couldn't get on at the time, seemed to benefit people who may not even have been trying to get online when the game was down.
I, like many others, couldn't get online from around 8.30pm. I went to bed at 12.30am thinking the game will be up in the morning. So when I log on this morning to discover that there was a durden spawn to reward our patience was a bit annoying. It would have been better if they were spawned 24hours after the server was down, to give those who couldn't get online a chance to bag a few.
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif">Mini-rant aside, I hope there was no major damage caused by the fire. And hats off to those who work hard to keep the game going for us all. To be fair, there have been very few times since I have returned that the game has been down.</font> </p> |
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| Reply by: ruthless at May 07, '13 08:58 | |
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...really? |
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| Reply by: Whitey at May 07, '13 12:11 | |
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"I hope there was no major damage caused by the fire." It was more of a metaphorical fire than a real one :) After we did all of our upgrades to the latest stable versions, the game would randomly shit the bed 10-40 minutes in for no reason. We dabbled around with various things until we just started randomly trying everything. Turns out xcache, the opcode cacher we use, was segfaulting silently, so it had us looking further down the line for problems.
As far as the durdens go - there will never be an opportune time to launch them, someone will always miss out. For every one you miss, you'll be knee deep in one that someone else will miss. In the end it all balances out. The users purchases of MIAs control the spawn rate of the automatic durdens, which means it equals out evenly over all time zones, all play styles, and all days of week. Manual durdens are mostly launched during my work day, which could be anywhere from 8am wrapping around the clock until about 4am. While yes, there is a small window where there would be statistically less durdens spawned manually, but I feel that most crews have people that represent each hour of the day with their presence, and thus can still take their fair share of the crew's shots for you. I dont want to ban a practice because a small % of the time, some people are on the other side of the fence. You don't ban knives because a baby can't chew steak. :)
PS. The server doesn't really shit the bed. It more or less just dribbles 1's and 0's onto the server below it. |
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| Reply by: Squishy at May 07, '13 13:02 | |
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