Apologies for any inconvenience caused. I was aware that it was going to be tight this month but it appears that a sudden increase in new members caused a rapid change in usage. (Was the site advertised somewhere new recently?)
Anyway, we have a temporary increase which I hope will keep us going for the next couple of days (it resets at the start of each month) but I'm keeping a close eye on it.
I'm also in the process of renewing the hosting and will negotiate a permanent increase.
Update:The increase has been tracked to a browser repeatedly requesting the sites images instead of using the cached copy. Can all users please ensure that IE's Temporary Internet Files setting is on Automatic
With so many users and so many active games, I've become worried about installing major changes (like the next rewrite of combat - nearing completion), for fear of trashing people's games. Also, I'm not finding enough time to do thorough testing on my development server.
So, I've created a test environment running in parallel with the main oTalisman game environment. In this test environment, persistence of games isn't guaranteed - they may be messed up (or completely deleted) at any time, without warning. This will provide better testing of new code before it goes in to the main oTalisman environment.
Note: access to this test environment is restricted (to those who have donated and some of the original testers). If you can see the "oTalisman (Testing)" game under the Games link above, then you should have access. If you cannot and believe you would be able to contribute as a tester then add a comment to this post or PM me.
We've had a lot of new members join over the last couple of months. Welcome!
But what this does mean (due to the image intensity of oTalisman) that we are approaching the site's bandwidth limit. I'll be applying for an increase soon.
Any contributions will be very gratefully received. Please click the Donate button on the right.
The server hosting this site had a critical RAID failure this morning. Repeated failures to restore to the existing hardware led to delays in restoration. The server has now been replaced with completely new hardware and restoration continues.
This site appears to have been restored from a backup of about 19:30 6 Sept BST.
Not everything is back yet including email notification and the auto-suspend (which on return is likely to cause many suspensions). EDIT: I've set all games to have auto-suspend disabled until a player next takes a turn
Apologies for the loss of posts and disruption to games but this is out of my hands.
Update: Everything should now be up and running again. Email notifications are now going out again, I'll keep an eye on the auto-suspend.
Update: I've triggered the autosuspend to get those games that haven't had any activity since last week to hopefully continue.
Major card update (72% to 82% complete). I've not done as much testing as I'ld like due to time constraints so use the Bug Reporter as usual if you encounter a problem.
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FifthBase 2008/08/28 02:04 There are a lot of stalled games out there. For example #866
FifthBase 2008/08/28 01:57 I see what he means, the 2 avail. games are password games and 1 of them has been recruiting since early June
Vince7 2008/08/28 01:56 ...when it is not '0', join in (usually there is at least 1 available)
Vince7 2008/08/28 01:54 Azazel, see 'Current Status' box on left-hand-side ('Available' row)...
Azazel 2008/08/28 01:50 This sucks a friend recommended me to this site and it says I cant start any games cuz the server is full!?
Excalibur 2008/08/26 01:38 Not a problem, I just stopped the game, no use in playing one that spins its wheels for weeks.
Robin 2008/08/25 20:54 Apologies, been away on holiday. I'll be around more over the next two weeks when not on Jury service!
MiaG 2008/08/13 22:37 i wonder how many turns are taken daily
Excalibur 2008/08/08 22:57 Robin, can you nudge game 582 along?
tolli 2008/08/08 10:48 I'm about to win... Muahahahahaha!
