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@Kestas,

Don't know if this has been suggested, but I think this would fix the problem of All Hold/NMR:

Instead of defaulting each unit to hold, why doesn't each unit get defaulted to just a *blank* in the order drop down. The user can then change it to hold or whatever else, but if there are any *blanks*, the orders are obviously not ready.

When it's time to process, any remaining *blanks* (in the case of a NMR) can be considered holds.

Seems like it would fix the problem to me and I don't think it would confuse any one.

notorios...what makes you think that this is the place to make a sales pitch for your live game???? can you explain your lack of thought into your actions?

just trying to see if anyone is interested because there are a lot of people online. thats all. im sorry if that annoyed you black...errr....white sammy

I like abgemacht's suggestion. Oh, and I will attempt to be more constructive and less sarcastic with any observations in the future.

> 1. I'd be willing to set it up per your specs and to do the testing for you.
Not sure what you're referring to

> 2. I'd be willing to help fix bugs, but the last time I offered, you said no thanks to that as well.
I can't remember that, but bugs don't take a long time to fix, as I've said you don't have any demonstrated skills or experience (not even stated skills in PHP/MySQL), you're always referring to a development server as if it's a requirement for your help, and with every other developer I've worked with on this project the first you usually hear of a bug is the patch

> 3. You'd do this if yo made nothing, right? So you get some fun money (enough for pizza
Yup that's about right, spent 3 of webDip's first 5 years pizzaless tbh

4. > come on, face it, you pushed that without running it once on your dev box.
Sort of, the actual code was tested quite thoroughly (it's a chunk of javascript you'd be lucky to get working without testing), but I had to move it and it didn't initialize correctly.
It was tested, hence the quick fix, not totally hack and go as you imply.

Also it was a 15-30 minute period where you had to click "Yes" to submit posts, not the end of the world. More important code does get more care generally, but this was a series of related Javascript post-processing updates in a bundle (the code controlling new message icons and user online icons and italicized posts) and this got overlooked

> I'll set it up this weekend. What web server and database do you want. Apache and
> MySQL? Any specific versions?
Any apache 2.x is good, MySQL 5.0.x, PHP 5.1+

*PHP 5.2+, with the GD2 extension

Something with a fair amount of storage would be most useful, if you come through it'll be a cacheing server for rendering maps and things like that at first, since that'd be easiest and most useful

@WhiteSammy: Try again now, I think it's probably just you were using an old home.css, since IE8 worked fine for me and not you that's the most likely explanation I think

The laptop is 120 Gig HD and I have a spare USB I can attach to it as well. Dual Core Celeron processor I believe.

By the way, what do you need from meto demonstrate my skills? I could send you a couple SPs I've writtne in T-Sql (not MySQL, but then the basics is the basics in SQL). I will readily admit my PHP is weak as I'm a .Net developer, but I could send some code samples of that your way as well if you like.

Oh, and ithe home page is still broken under IE 7 with Windows XP.

So what Draug is saying is that internet peasants can't use the website

That should now be fixed, seems to be working in IE7 mode in IE8 at least

@abgemacht I think that would be better, it is set to hold initially for reasons that no longer apply since javascript orders, I'll make that change when I next get a chance (that's it for this round though, except for urgent bugs)

"The "priceless" comment was intended like the MasterCard commercials. It wasn't a literal priceless, but I imagine you knew that and were intentionally being obtuse."

I argue with what you write. Things considered "priceless" by the good people at Mastercard are usually effectively priceless, or at least very important to the peolple involved. This really isn't that important, that's my point.

"You are saying it is free because it doesn't cost hard dollars. But my my laptop's spare processor cycles are mine. Anybody running Plura is paying him with theirs. You may not recognize this as payment, but the GAO and most governments (US or otherwise) most certainly do recognize the use of spare resources as a form of payment. It is effectively like the barter system, resources are rendered for the service."

You can opt out of Plura, paying effectively nothing.

"For him to do most of the things users do in a test enviroment would take time he most likely doesn't have."

I think one of my points was this is the test enviroment. This is version 0.96, that sounds pre-release to me.
That it is popular, and all of us are testers without even noticing isn't a blot on Kestas's reputation as a developer it is a perfectly valid strategy. Testing in the wild like this is much cheaper, and that annoys you because you're used to having cash to throw at problems.

and i'm not even going to comment on the stealing unused cycles comment.

i run software to freely give away those cycles when my OS isn't busy, so i'm happy for plura to take some too.

Draug?-"the use of spare resources as a form of payment. It is effectively like the barter system, resources are rendered for the service."

Xapi - "You can opt out of Plura, paying effectively nothing. "

That's not even the point, they are spare resources, and if they're not being used for something they are wasted.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but my electricity gets used up whether my processor is idle of running plura code, right?

Computers do use more energy when doing processor intensive tasks, but they pay so they don't have to rent out supercomputers, not for the trickle of power a CPU uses (which would add a few cents onto a power bill)

kestas...it works now

Kestas, I like that the forum now keeps track of which posts I've read. But, is there anyway you could add a button at the top that marks all posts as read? There are a lot of posts that I have no interest in and it would be nice to read the ones I'm interested in and then have them all cleared of their flags. That way the next time I'm back I don't have to look through those older ones again to reassure myself that they are the ones I wasn't interested in in the first place. Just a thought.

In any case, love the new updates, as usual.

Kestas,

I know you probably hear this alot and its usually a load of nothing. But I was sure I had moves in for this game: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=14746&msgCountry=Global

I would have entered them pre-update and the adjudication would have been post-update. So is it possible that this isn't user error?

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bump

@Alderian: There is a problem at the moment where the threads which haven't changed since last time you visited aren't recognized as old, so hopefully once that is corrected in the next update it'll work better, if not I'll add that feature

@Centurian: All other countries have order logs from that game except Turkey, and the update didn't alter the orders table or affect order-entry/processing code in any way, so I think it's unlikely a glitch and very unlikely that it's anything to do with the update :-(

Cool, sounds perfect. (Re: threads being marked as old, not Centurian's problem.)

One to throw on the list (although minor and I wouldn't put any effort into it unless you are bored <grin>)...

There is a bug in which the points occassionally reflect a negative number to others. I am an example at the moment. Everyone sees -50 for my available points, but I actually have 1 point available. Every game I am in is anonymous, so I suspect that may have something to do with it.

A correction to my bug above... I guess it is actually the points in play that is reflecting the negative value right now, not the available points.