Ltex32b giving connection refused

kingofnerds · Post by **kingofnerds** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:45 am

Am I the only one who is getting connection refused when trying to connect to ltex23b?

johnhx · Post by **johnhx** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:30 am

No. And the turn counter hasn't moved on from T62 either.

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:25 am

Still down for me too. Thanks admins for all your work.

Vendicar · Post by **Vendicar** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:18 am

I can't get on either. I just get "The operation completed successfully" but it doesn't give me anything.

kyrilus · Post by **kyrilus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:02 am

"connection refused" at breakfast, bad day :/

mrsynical · Post by **mrsynical** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:44 am

I heard the data center where the server is located lost power today. I presume power is restored by now, but an admin will need to reactivate the server and set turn changes etc.

Joe9009 · Post by **Joe9009** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:09 am

Thanks for the info, so sad, well not like going hungry sad, or like even getting fired sad, but hey I like this game! I should be able have some kind of emotional response with out all these guilt games. Oh great now my wife is calling me a "#*&#! Girl"

ifaesfu · Post by **ifaesfu** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:14 pm

The same here. Also I tried to connect 19 hours ago. I thought it was to remove pirates, but I don't know if it's possible. They have already destroyed a city.

kingofnerds · Post by **kingofnerds** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:00 pm

good to know that I was not the only one with the problem

kingofnerds · Post by **kingofnerds** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:06 pm

I was just able to log in, but it is still on turn 62 and says that there is just over 24 hours left...

det0r · Post by **det0r** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:12 pm

Yeah akfaew will have rolled it back to the save at the beginning of the previous turn and increase the turn length to 48h so that nobody is disadvantaged by the server downtime.

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:19 pm

I logged on 5 minutes before the turn, and the server was up fine.

Then came back after TC, and client is giving "The operation completed successfully." Server responds to ping, but client can't connect.

Robodave · Post by **Robodave** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:37 pm

I think the game is crashing when the barbarians capture a city. Maybe changing Barbarians to a normal player broke them?

johnhx · Post by **johnhx** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:14 pm

Can we have turn 62 again? There's something I’d like to change.

ps. well done admin

kevin551 · Post by **kevin551** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:22 am

1: No nation found! maybe an error when the server tries to create a pirate nation and there are no available nations to choose from.

Last game we altered the file pirates.ruelset in the nations folder to make pirates playable.
The lines changed were
is_playable = 0
barbarian_type = "Sea"

There are no other nations in this folder with barbarian_type = "Sea"
To fix this crash either turn off pirates or add barbarian_type = "Sea" to one of the unused nations.

I am very impressed with the imaginations of all those players who have already seen pirates in this game.

kevin551 · Post by **kevin551** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:31 pm

kevin551 wrote:I am very impressed with the imaginations of all those players who have already seen pirates in this game.

Wow! My imagination has just improved too. I just chatted to Cofresí the pirate. He says he want to play Puerto Rico. And he doesn't like the easy setting, he wants to be hard.

Must be the wine. Apologies to all the players I doubted earlier. Cofresí is alive and well. For another few hours at least.

Joe9009 · Post by **Joe9009** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:44 pm

Is the game having another bout of downtime? I only ask to find out if I am the only who can't get on.

ifaesfu · Post by **ifaesfu** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:47 pm

Joe9009 wrote:Is the game having another bout of downtime? I only ask to find out if I am the only who can't get on.

I can't either

kingofnerds · Post by **kingofnerds** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:41 pm

nor can I

det0r · Post by **det0r** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:57 pm

This time the machine is still alive so I'm guessing the FreeCiv server crashed. You might have to wait ~12 hours before akfaew has time to fix it.

kingofnerds · Post by **kingofnerds** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:49 am

did it ever come up? or is it still down?

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:59 pm

It did come up and rolled back to the beginning of last turn. But now it crashed again? As i could get in 4 hours before turn change, now connection refused again.

kevin551 · Post by **kevin551** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:50 pm

If this bug is the same one recurring - server crashes when pirate captures a city intact - and it is not being fixed, then we have to find other solutions.

I think we should all strongly defend all coastal and near coastal cities from surprise attack. I think the pirate AI has the power to cheat. It sees the entire map, and can see inside all cities. A pirate boat can appear at TC anywhere.

I don't know if 'slow_invasions' or 'unit wait time' applies to the AI. If not it means the AI can unload units which can then move and attack immediately.

Despite these 'cheats' it really is very easy to beat the AI.

det0r · Post by **det0r** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:17 pm

If the crashes are being caused by the pirates capturing cities, can we just remove the pirates?