Thanks for the explanation jayp. Three days is rather arbitrary, but I understand perfectly why you implemented a limit. Thanks for developing these new features!

Absolutely fabulous... Great job.
Thanks a lot Kestas, jayp.


just curious, did anyone think about the following:
How to ask for a pause in gunboats now?
How to find a sitter when in anonymous games?

jayp +1 FTW too

@TheWizard:

One way to ask for a pause is just to vote for the pause and hope that people notice. But yeah, you can't really explain your reasons.

Minor typo bug: My countdown says ‘1days 11:41:38’ but it should probably be ‘1 day 11:41:38’. (No ‘s’, yes space.)

@ Toby:

yes, I thought of that, but I think it unlikely everyone will notice, plus people might want to know for how long to pause...

Would be nice if the votes still caused a line to go to the global chat box saying who has voted and who hasn't. And would be nice to be able to vote for a specific length pause and have that indicated as well.

Otherwise you could do a gunboat game that is actually setup for public press only and then indicate that it is really no press but the global chat is being left open for pause requests only.

i agree with Alderian... would be great if votes were also recorded or reflected on the global tab.

You were never really supposed to explain reasons for asking for a pause or draw or anything in a gunboat. It ruins the gunboat-ness of the whole thing.

You're certainly free to do that, Alderian, but it's so much better to just enter your vote for a draw and play with people who care enough to notice that type of thing.

> Finally, will this code be released publicly? I personally think you should keep it all to yourself!!
If I kept it to myself we wouldn't have this update :-) this update and others come in from contributors because it's open source, people want to make their own sites better and do so, but then the license we use says you have to share the changes (plus your code gets more widely used and more debugged). Keeping it to myself we might end up like playdiplomacy, with all development stalled and trying to raise $25000 from the users, if it's open source you know it'll always be improving as long as people use it.
So the latest code we use here is always available at http://webdiplomacy.net/webDiplomacy-latest.tgz

> Random thought: (I know it must seem like the suggestions never stop...)
They don't :-) Re the suggestion we're hoping to have a system that can compare log-on times, for multi accounting and better matching in live games, so we don't need timezones to be shown because we should have something better later

> hmm, I'm having a problem. I'm using Firefox and where it says Next Phase: it always
> says Now. Anyone have any ideas?
Hmm, what version of Firefox and what addons/plugins are you using? Do you get any errors in the javascript console, and does it work for you in IE?

Re: the time left delay I've now removed that restriction, I think the new game search and higher number of users means it shouldn't be a problem here

Re: 1.041666666666667/2.08333333333333333 days, fixed this now, changes should be uploading atm

Re: seconds in the JS timer. I'll be converting it to use the D days, H hours / H hours, M minutes / M minutes, S seconds thing we're using now, but it's in Javascript

Is this a problem of my computer or general: I can see the text written, without any design, can't read messages.

OK, whatever happend, it is normal again ;-)

There was a problem with our update script, it didn't assign permissions correctly so the stylesheets became inaccessible

thanks!!

Grats Kestas/jman, you fixed something I hadn't mentioned! :-)

The titlebar used to split the name of a game if it ran over into a second line, it doesn't anymore. :-)

also, are disbands automatic now if a unit has no valid retreats? that's great!!

Kestasjk, unfortunately my understanding of computers is very sub-par. I'm pretty sure I'm running the latest version of Firefox (3.5.2) but when I look at the properties of my Firefox it doesn't tell me which version it is. In terms of addons/plugins I'm not sure. When I use IE (again I'm not sure of the version) it also only displays Now in the Next Phase area.

If it's helpful, when I first go the the home page or when I first open the game the timer will pop up for maybe a second and then be replaced by Now. On the other hand, if I look at my own profile, all of the timers appear (like 10 hours, 50 mins for one of my games). Does that mean it's an addon/plugin problem that I don't know about?

Oh, and thanks for changing the Open button on posts to Open links so they can be easily opened in tabs. And same for the View button that is now a View link on game listings. You probably changed those weeks ago and I'm only noticing now.

You can find the version numbers by choosing the "About" option in the Help menu when you run each program.

thanks ninjapiraterobotzombie, I found it and my Firefox is 3.5.2 and my IE is 7.0.6001.18000.

I have to say that I prefered the 'last seen' time as it was before.
Now I have to make some thinking to know if the person was on-line after I posted my last message, in order to know if it was read or not.

Anyone agrees?

Hmmm...a slight glitch- the time is, say on a 3 day/phase game,
3 days minutes/phase remaining. :p
And what happened to the timer?

I've added the old last seen time so you have both, fixed the days minutes/phase, and the timer is still there it just looks the same as it did before. Even if it says 9 days, 20 hours, it's still counting down and will display 9 days, 19 hours after long enough

The general Im not really sure, try refreshing the page and see if that helps, it should work

Thank you kestas

In an anonymous gunboat I'm in, the link for the Orders archive doesn't appear. I know we can reach it through a URL, but it's a bit annoying.

It works now, thanks!