The HOTW VII - Setup Thread III - The Trilogy

[Colonel_Treize]

Also, I would ask if someone in the USA could privately give me their telephone number in advance so I can notify everyone through that person in the event my internet connection crashes again. I have unlimited free calls anywhere in the US.

[deity]

2 hour session works for me from normal start time - damn family has birthday plans after that

[deity]

Originally posted by Toni
Ok make up session is set for this SUNDAY 21:30 - saturday 01:00 UTC. Hope i got the time right.

So now it's 22:30 USA Eastern (normal start time)?

The UTC looks wrong as it must be a whole number of hours different I think?

[deity]

So Frank really needs Omni and lz to confirm so that he can plan work, right?

Other than that we hopefully will get a 2 hour session.

[KunojiLym]

Ryk can make it, but can we confirm a time?

[Toni]

tx for talking to Ryk Kino, so yea

we will start the usual friday time, but will play only 2hrs so that the euros can go to sleep earlier.

So game is at: Gametime: Sunday 22:30 - monday 02:00 UTC

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by deity


So now it's 22:30 USA Eastern (normal start time)?

The UTC looks wrong as it must be a whole number of hours different I think?

Normal start time is 6:30 pm USA Eastern. So thats... 18:30 EST in foreigner style?

CT - My phone is 301-738-6769

[Robert]

Ok, normal starting time (22:30 UTC) and we play for 2 hours. Everybody who can come earlier: Come earlier so we can start testing already!
Did everybody read my post on how we may tackle the problems? If we start 22.00 UTC (For those who can show up then) then we can start doing the procedure described below already and Frank can hot-join as the last person at 22.30 UTC.

here it is again:

Solution????

I think I know a big road to a solution

If I analyse my own failure yesterday I see that all went fine untill everybody came into the game. Then my connection crashed. Not just for civ but for AIM/YIM as well.

What happens is: in the lobby the players enter one by one, then the game starts, everybody loads, and all of the sudden all at the same time everybody starts sharing data like crazy. Thus at once 12 computers connect to my router. My router doesn't trust it and thinks my computer is being attacked and therefor closes down ALL INTERNET sources for at least 1 minute. Then it goes back up.

I think this happened to more players. Deity has it and a few more players have their internet crashing immediately after the game has started.

Solution

First: if possible remove your router from your line and connect your computer directly to your modem.

2nd: only 6 players enter the lobby and start the game. The other 7 players hot-join in the REAL GAME one by one. Thus they do not join to the lobby but join the real game one by one. (like a 40 seconds gap between everybodies login)

That avoids a big bang in which all computers connect to each other. The last two players who should join should be players with no routers. (like me, since I turned it off) to avoid that they crash b/c of the big bang.

Then of course there's still the problem that people drop out, especially if the host drops out. I still want to test if the host can re-join by connecting to another players IP.

I think there's not really a host after the game has started and every IP can be used to join, but I may be wrong there.

[LzPrst]

I AM IN! For tonights session! I'm there! try and stop me!

I'll sms OT and ask right now.

[LzPrst]

As for solutions. we will follow that list that deity posted. it seemed like a good start. when we have 7 players in we'll launch and have the rest hotjoin, following the list.

Isn't normal starting time 23:30 UTC? I am thoroughly confused. I'll be there regardless. Sent Omnitrout a text message. If he hasnt answered in an hour I'll call and heckle him every hour on the hour until he agrees to play

seriously though, I think he has work tomorrow, so it will have to be a quick one for him. maybe he can take a sub when he has to go to bed. I'll ask.

[Robert]

As for solutions. we will follow that list that deity posted. it seemed like a good start. when we have 7 players in we'll launch and have the rest hotjoin, following the list.

That's my solution
Not Deity's solution
Deity's a cool guy though

Isn't normal starting time 23:30 UTC?

Nope, 22:30 UTC is normal time.
We (You and me) are on UTC+2 in the summer and UTC+1 in the winter

Right now 22:30 UTC = 00:30 our time.
Thus we play: 22:30 - 01:00 UTC (If Omni can make it)

If you can come in at 22:00 UTC please do so we can start trying to get the game going already!!!

[Robert]

Any news on Omni?

[LzPrst]

omni is in.
also, I meant deity's solution about the login order. one at a time according to his list. THEN when we get halfways we go by your solution. a combination of the two. damn I'm good.

[Robert]

I thought the login-order was your idea :P
GREAT, OMNI IS IN!

[color=red]official tonight game times:
22:00 UTC - All players line up in AIM and start joining
22:30 UTC - Frank arrives and can smoothly join the game in which the rest is already waiting for him
01:30 UTC - India has world domination, wait, I mean, the game just and all go to Australia to celebrate the birthday of the divine man!

Everybody deserves a cake for getting this session organized! All go to the kitchen and grab a cake from the cooler 8)

[Toni]

Guys u are the best so everyone is coming today wow wow, now this is what i call devoted. Thank u ALL