"games turned off temporarily"

[Halmir]

This is what I get when trying to enter any of my games, where I can either take a turn or not.

Have I transgressed in some way so the Mods have done fer me, or is this part of the problems I'm having in my migration to Windows 8 ? (even though it's been working fine all day).

confused !

[TheQuietOne]

Same problem here

[AndyDufresne]

Games are turned off for the 4th of july in the usa. They want you to spend time at the barbecue or looking at fireworks.


--Andy

[tokle]

Games are turned off for the 4th of july in the usa. They want you to spend time at the barbecue or looking at fireworks.


--Andy

Have a banana and go back to sleep.

[jammyjames]

So how does this work with one of my turns ending in 3 hours?!

A game that I WILL win if i play my turn and begin again before anyone else removes my complete objective?!

This is bullshit!! So basically I will wake up in the morning and will have missed a crucial turn at the worst possible time!

[DaGip]

go here, and tell us exactly what happened!

viewtopic.php?f=506&t=206196

[jammyjames]

I'd also like to point out the round timers are also going down still?! If I can't play my turn and miss the win because of this bullshit, It's the last fucking straw.

Is this site now run by a fully fledged 4 year old that can't even communicate this bullshit??

f*ck CC, Webmaster - you're a PROFANITY REMOVED. Worst business model I have ever seen... No wonder this site is contantly on the decline now. ZERO care for the community of which propel it.

EDIT: Removed the comment re: Andy's reasoning, missed sarcasm

[DaGip]

I'd also like to point out the round timers are also going down still?! If I can't play my turn and miss the win because of this bullshit (THAT NONE OF US NON-AMERICANS CELEBRATE!!), It's the last fucking straw.

Is this site now run by a fully fledged 4 year old that can't even communicate this bullshit??

f*ck CC, Webmaster - you're a cunt. Worst business model I have ever seen... No wonder this site is contantly on the decline now. ZERO care for the community of which propel it.

viewtopic.php?f=506&t=206187

I think this thread needs to be merged into Bug Reports, don't you?

[Halmir]

In a slightly more moderate tone it'd have been helpful to have advance notice of this (if there was, I missed it, so would have been helpful to be more front page prominent) and a clock freeze on current games. Turning the site off for maintenance, patching etc is fine, and you'd do that via a bunch of comms first, ya? I can understand if you don't want to operate the site if all the support folks are out celebrating (I don't ever recall this over Xmas tho lol), but we'd like to know first so we don't feel the frustration. Ta

[jammyjames]

Understandable if there is a problem with the site, that unfortunately cannot be helped.

However, a FORMAL announcement should have been made. It's like me not sending reports out to my customers and waiting for them to complain before me telling them why I haven't. It's poor business ethics, and someone up top needs to remember who his clients are...

[DaGip]

The Rumor Mill is that the problem is with a server and several websites are experiencing the same problem.

You all should really look at the Bug Report threads to see what's going on.

I'd also like to point out the round timers are also going down still?! If I can't play my turn and miss the win because of this bullshit (THAT NONE OF US NON-AMERICANS CELEBRATE!!), It's the last fucking straw.

Is this site now run by a fully fledged 4 year old that can't even communicate this bullshit??

f*ck CC, Webmaster - you're a cunt. Worst business model I have ever seen... No wonder this site is contantly on the decline now. ZERO care for the community of which propel it.

viewtopic.php?f=506&t=206187

I think this thread needs to be merged into Bug Reports, don't you?

I know a lot of us flew off the cuff and got pissed, but just mellow out a bit and plug yourself into the Bug Report threads on this subject. You will see that it is not entirely a ConquerClub issue:

Hi everyone. This appear to be some type of very strange networking issue, not on conquerclub.com itself, but with the networking infrastructure. I am working with rackspace to fix it.

[Frito Bandito]

It's because of Obama

[jammyjames]

Just as a theory tester, I joined a speed game, in which I knew It would end the round.

The rounds do not end and change to the next player etc. they just sit on 00:00:00.

Therefore I would assume time will be added onto all games (24hrs / whatever time has been lost), and speed games will be converted back to a standard game.

This is my assumption at least / the closest you will get to an announcement...

[DaGip]

If you are not keeping up to date on the Bug Report on this issue, this is the current response from admin:

Just for the record, this is not something that was planned, scheduled or intentionally done. If the games are not turned off now, everyone who attempts to make a turn while this is still not fixed will also suffer the same status code error message. For now, the webmaster is focused in settling this issue first then when it's fixed, we can get to what to do with the affected games by then.

[hoytdwow]

why are "games turned off temporarily"?

serious question. Dont' think we should have to check 10 other forums for the answer. Thanks in advance!

[AndyDufresne]

They should probably put up a my games alert or something.


--Andy

[hoytdwow]

For those of us who just play the game and don't nerd out all over the site, is there actually a place where the games turned off situation is explained?

[Sirius Kase]

viewtopic.php?f=506&t=206187&start=50

[keyborn]

CC seem to be back online and working correctly. Who is going to try a start a turn first and report back here? Not me...

[Sirius Kase]

just posted in game chat, privately to team and publicly, didn't screw up like the other day when it waited a minute or two before posting the private to the public I thought it was lost, but it was worse than lost.

[Invdr_zim]

Took a turn against a bot without incident. Seems ok.

[kratos644]

What about games that were missed while this was happening... Clocks weren't rolled back time was just added. I have a clan game that I was going to take but couldn't because games weren't working so the turn was missed. Now instead of me having a couple hours left on clock to go the opposing team has 27 hrs...

[Sirius Kase]

They should consider rolling back 24 hours, so we would have to retake our turns. They did it before. Was a lot of griping and moaning, but it's the fairest thing I can think of. No one would skip a turn, just have to remember what they did or rethink it.

[DaGip]

CC back online and seems to be fixed? I am still a little gun shy to start a turn. Have noticed that time has been added to every game also.

Well after 3 hours on the phone with Rackspace, back and forth, round and about, the problem is fixed. It was nothing to do with networking in the end, despite confusing, contradictory diagnostics and Rackspace themselves thinking it was. It was a case of a tiny problem that should have been harmless, having large unintended and unpredictable consequences. Should be fixed now. Please report any related issues here.