Back up and Running [Down time threads merged]

by **Serbia** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:48 pm

Nice of them to add time to our games!

by **Bammers** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:01 pm

Yeah, the guy after me has still got 29:47 left. All I know is I knew I might miss my turn as I was out of town. I forked over the 10 bucks at my hotel last night, only to find I could not log on. As soon as I got home today, around 3 PM EST, I checked and still could not log on. Now I see that my turn came at 12:33 PM today, and that my opponent has been given an extra 12 hours for their turn. Nice. #-o

The important point here is that I was unable to log on as early as 11 PM EST on the 14th. Had I been able to log on last night, I would have taken my turn, and all would be well. Now I have missed my turn, and with it also my last opportunity to take out an opponent who has missed 2 turns. The salt in the wound is I now have to wait an extra 12 hours for this person to deadbeat and be auto-booted from the game. :cry:

Yeah, I know, you can't please everyone...........

it's just hard when you keep coming up on the short end of these scenarios.

by **Chariot of Fire** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:45 pm

rocky mountain wrote:i went to church and played hockey... luckily I didn't miss it too much...

Lucky bugger. All I get is a cracker and a sip of wine

by **rocky mountain** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:04 pm

no the hockey wasn't at church... it was after.

by **what,me worry?** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:33 pm

finally CC go's above and beyond on matters like this. Very nice on setting the clock back =D>

by **gloryordeath** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:39 pm

with all that i think i missed 1 turn lol all on someone. else hehehe

by **juventino** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:09 pm

Honestly... How hard is it to give 24 hours from when the caos started. I am really disapointed now......... if you cant logg in for 10 hours and tries.... and still miss your turn it is something bad.....

And how about some info on the "Check if CC is back online" just a reminder that no extra time will be given from when the caos started but they will get extra time for the next person??!????!???!!!!!!???!

This was a bad one Lack and the CC team!

by **AAFitz** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:29 pm

I got rejected more times trying to log onto CC today, than I did in college when I drove down to smith college and started knocking on doors...

I didnt really do that...i mean the knocking on doors part anyways.

by **ahunda** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:38 pm

juventino wrote:How hard is it to give 24 hours from when the caos started.

Agreed.

That would be the obvious, logical & sensible thing to do in such a case.

by **owenshooter** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:27 am

ahunda wrote:
juventino wrote:How hard is it to give 24 hours from when the caos started.

Agreed.

That would be the obvious, logical & sensible thing to do in such a case.

i noticed it shortly after 4am, here in texas... missed 2 turns... one will cost me the match... oh well... they try their best... i think it is because of when they first noticed it... not everyone can be on the ball with this site like
i am... ahem...-0

by **Fruitcake** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:11 am

I fail to see how adding the time has worked.

Those that missed turns still do so, and then, as if to add insult to injury, the oppos will now get a longer period to finish!!!

by **madannc** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:14 am

kinda a bit late for peeps in the UK.... missed turns prob cost me games

by **LFAW** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:27 am

2 of my teammates missed turns on pivotal moments in the game.Now we will probs lose.

Thanks, Lack...

by **Twill** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:33 am

To everyone who is worried about adding of time - if you missed your turn and your opponent got the time instead it's because of 1 of 2 things:

Either someone in that game checked the RSS feed which will have disabled the time warp OR
Someone else took a turn in that game before we had the chance to add the time on to yours.

We'll work on the time thing if the system goes down again, but while it may not have been perfect this time, it still saved a whole truck load of games from missing turns, even if it didn't save yours...and that's better than a stick in the eye, no?

This one really took us aback - it was a whole database wipe. I think we recovered pretty well from it. This could have killed all scores and all games that ever happened :shock:

Thank goodness for backups

by **owenshooter** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:06 am

Twill wrote:Thank goodness for backups

and skype... and boats... ahem...-0

p.s.-very inside joke, sorry...
p.p.s.-great job getting it back up!

by **detlef** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:41 am

To all those bent about the fact that the missed turn could have cost them a game. Good thing it's only a game, eh? Think about all the games you've lost due to really crappy dice at pivotal moments? Just like the dice, you're just as likely to be on the good side of the "luck" associated with the time of the site going down as being penalized by it. Judging by history, this will likely happen again down the road. Maybe that time, you'll be the guy who was about to get crushed by the guy who barely held his massive continent bonus but would not have held up against another attack without getting his turn.

In the meantime, remember how much fun this game can be.