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19 Nov 2010, 21:12
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Save energy: Be apathetic
Join Date: May 2008
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Timeouts
Can the god damn game be fixed already?!
I mean, i know we are not important since we are only the paying player database and not multihunters... But hell!
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19 Nov 2010, 21:21
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Street Tramp
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Re: Timeouts
You are certainly not important enough.
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19 Nov 2010, 23:09
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Fightin-irish for life
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Timeouts
what certainly would be nice would be if the pa team worried more about fixing the timeouts that forums avatars
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19 Nov 2010, 23:10
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Timeouts
seriously, the admins are finding it harder to kick the ass* of all the attackers hitting 1:1 too. We're as upset and frustrated as you are.
The server admin that is investigating this has been hassled constantly for the last two weeks and it's been escalated to the head of operations for Jagex.
The admin has investigated the issue himself and narrowed it down to the firewall. he's made adjustments over the past week or more which didn't seem to resolve the problem, and he's engaged the firewall support group to try and help resolve the issue. He's made changes based on their advice over the last few days, and again they don't seem to have helped. He's continuing to investigate.
Unfortunately, war of legends (co-hosted at the same data centre) has a new release yesterday and their increased bandwidth seems to be impacting us more.
We are trying
*this fact is impressive considering over half of us are cath.
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20 Nov 2010, 00:18
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Fightin-irish for life
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: guinness brewery
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Re: Timeouts
so to summarise its broke they dont know how to fix it or when it will be fixed but the game will keep ticking
now given that it can take anywhere up to 20 mins to actually open a page in the game , if someone loses fleet or roids because of this will they be compensated
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20 Nov 2010, 00:24
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Timeouts
It took me 5 minutes to get to this thread. Irony, I guess!
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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20 Nov 2010, 00:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 898
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Re: Timeouts
how long will this crap go on for, will we see some sort of compensation for this??
from what i have seen they don't seem to be taking PA very seriously
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20 Nov 2010, 00:57
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by PA
We will look to extend the round to compensate for the downtime.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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20 Nov 2010, 01:11
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The Video Guy
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,279
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
quote from PA
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Hahahaha, you mugs are gonna have to put up with this crap round for even longer <3
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20 Nov 2010, 01:30
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Class Clown
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Florida, USA
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
Unfortunately, war of legends (co-hosted at the same data centre) has a new release yesterday and their increased bandwidth seems to be impacting us more.
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Let's just shut down War of Legends then. Me, newt, alki and Wishmaster gave War of Legends a try and lasted a matter of hours. War of Legends is shit. Planetarion is much better. Down with WoL!
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20 Nov 2010, 04:17
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LDK
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Norway
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Re: Timeouts
hehe. it was actually rather shit wasnt it?! I dunno, did we really give it a proper go?
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20 Nov 2010, 06:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Belgium
Posts: 673
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Re: Timeouts
lets just hope this downtime will be worth it
meaning it will get fixed for good
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20 Nov 2010, 06:31
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Retired
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: The Back Porch Bar
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Re: Timeouts
Even nullsec fleet battles in "that internet spaceship game" aren't as bad as this.
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20 Nov 2010, 06:53
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Doh!
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Connectivity Issues
Posted at 23:57 GMT on Friday 19th November 2010
By Appocomaster.
Unfortunately, we've been experiencing connectivity issues in our new location. Jagex have been investigating these issues closely for the last couple of weeks, and after trying other options have finally decided the only way forward is to restructure/replace the entire firewall. This will be done at the beginning of next week.
To ensure that players are not affected by connectivity before the firewall changes, the game has been closed and ticks have been stopped. No fleet recalls are currently planned. The game will resume on Monday evening at the earliest.
So, relax, go outside, have a weekend off, or sign up and play on the speedgame (which will still be running its 2 day cycles).
Apologies for any problems caused; we'll post with more information closer to the restart.
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Whilst this announcement and the "others" at various locations provide the required information about the game, I would suggest a Link to the "aforementioned speedgame" should at least be available in one of the announcements, or perhaps the menu item to "Current Games" should include the Link to the speed game?
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20 Nov 2010, 07:02
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Retired
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: The Back Porch Bar
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Judge
Whilst this announcement and the "others" at various locations provide the required information about the game, I would suggest a Link to the "aforementioned speedgame" should at least be available in one of the announcements, or perhaps the menu item to "Current Games" should include the Link to the speed game?
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Going to have to agree with this.
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20 Nov 2010, 12:45
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Timeouts
battling to add it to the list of current games, but it's now on the portal link.
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20 Nov 2010, 16:48
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Doh!
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Cochese
Going to have to agree with this.
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That must have been a hard decision ?
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21 Nov 2010, 19:47
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,587
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Re: Timeouts
It's pretty great. These last 2 days are the best I've had all round.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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22 Nov 2010, 09:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Timeouts
so the first significant action since Jagex bought the game will have been a 5 day closure... the biggest ever in the 39 erratic rounds of PA history.
What's next ?
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22 Nov 2010, 10:13
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PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 7,449
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Makhil
so the first significant action since Jagex bought the game will have been a 5 day closure... the biggest ever in the 39 erratic rounds of PA history.
What's next ?
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Technically, the first significant act they did was to spend thousands of pounds on new servers, far surpassing any servers Planetarion has had before (certainly post R9), and ship them to the new data centre.
This data centre has been found to have an interesting firewall bug, which the vendor themselves aren't sure how to fix, and the cyclical nature of the issue makes it hard to immediately test fixes. They have one major change left before they'll consider buying another firewall.
Considering Planetarion probably makes about 0.01% of their income, the amount of attention they're spending on it is pretty large. It does suck to have such a large downtime (of four days, if you count ) but consider it a power nap before the end of the round
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22 Nov 2010, 11:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Timeouts
ah, it's a new feature...
Btw they were probably not after a 0,01% of increased income, so when will we have a timetable or any communication about the coming improvement(s) to PA ?
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22 Nov 2010, 13:28
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Save energy: Be apathetic
Join Date: May 2008
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
but consider it a power nap before the end of the round
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Do us a favour and put this round out of its misery. :-/
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22 Nov 2010, 14:30
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Doh!
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
This data centre has been found to have an interesting firewall bug, which the vendor themselves aren't sure how to fix
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Does not exactly inspire confidence in the product when the manufacturer has no idea how to fix it?
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22 Nov 2010, 16:44
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Judge
Does not exactly inspire confidence in the product when the manufacturer has no idea how to fix it?
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Please note they already consider buying a new firewall.
Despite all the hassle we´ve had I´m fairly pleased with how Jagex deals with the situation. The information flow seems better than anything I´ve experienced since Spinner sold PA, and I feel like I´m being treated as a valued customer for once in my PA life
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23 Nov 2010, 11:09
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The brother of Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Paisley - Scotland
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by nolezy
Let's just shut down War of Legends then. Me, newt, alki and Wishmaster gave War of Legends a try and lasted a matter of hours. War of Legends is shit. Planetarion is much better. Down with WoL!
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After playing war of legends for a few weeks... WoL isn't as near as fun as PA.
WoL could be quite "money grabbing" if you wanted to buy your way ahead.
makes me kinda grateful how much the credit price is for PA
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23 Nov 2010, 12:04
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Doh!
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by rUl3r
Please note they already consider buying a new firewall.
Despite all the hassle we´ve had I´m fairly pleased with how Jagex deals with the situation. The information flow seems better than anything I´ve experienced since Spinner sold PA, and I feel like I´m being treated as a valued customer for once in my PA life
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My criticism was of the product "the firewall" not of Jagex, anyone can buy a dog of a product.
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23 Nov 2010, 14:06
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Belgium
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Paisley
After playing war of legends for a few weeks... WoL isn't as near as fun as PA.
WoL could be quite "money grabbing" if you wanted to buy your way ahead.
makes me kinda grateful how much the credit price is for PA
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that is what put me off about WoL after just playing it for one day
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23 Nov 2010, 14:34
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Bad Girl
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Re: Timeouts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Judge
My criticism was of the product "the firewall" not of Jagex, anyone can buy a dog of a product.
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yup - after all judge drives a Rover !
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24 Nov 2010, 01:34
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LDK
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Norway
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Re: Timeouts
Apologies for the problems caused. The round will now end at 20:00 GMT on Friday, 10th December to compensate for this.
PA Team
Instead of making the round last longer to compensate, cant you just make it shorter? Would make me forget all about the issues atleast.
ty!
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Originally posted by Newt
I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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24 Nov 2010, 01:46
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Timeouts
On the bright side, I haven't had any issues accessing the forums in the last 8 hours or so.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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24 Nov 2010, 08:23
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
TIt does suck to have such a large downtime (of four days, if you count ) but consider it a power nap before the end of the round
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5 days now always add 1 day to a PA deadline, that's a never failing rule.
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24 Nov 2010, 12:33
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The Video Guy
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Re: Timeouts
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Originally Posted by Makhil
5 days now always add 1 day to a PA deadline, that's a never failing rule.
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Speaking of 'failing rules', are Jagex actually listening to anybody who are crying out not to have the round extended?
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24 Nov 2010, 15:16
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LDK
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Norway
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Re: Timeouts
tbh, it doesnt matter much... wont start a new round till after christmas anyway.
Let those who wanna play, play.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Newt
I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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