Ever since WarGear went down in June, there has been repeated instabilities of the site.
I couldn't access the site for about 90 minutes before writing this post. Looking at the public ticker, there was almost no activity at this time (other then phantom skips like that mentioned here: http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/4733/Getting_skipped_while_on_vacation). The entire public ticker is added at the end of this post. And it is seems quite evident that others have been having the same problem too.
And this is definitely not a one-off problem. Such problems have been happening repeatedly in the past month.
Beyond actual down-times, very often there are problems of actions not registering. I mentioned this here: http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/4697/Bug_causing_self_attacks. For instance, take a look at the history here: http://www.wargear.net/games/player/583814 (go to first turn). My placed units were not registered (even though they appeared in the log), and I had to do them again.
Others have talked about similar problems here: http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/4715/Site_instability ; (even this issue still occurs every now and then).
Entire public ticker for the 90 odd minutes that I talking about:
charlesdale won game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:21:44 camel was booted in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:21:38 charlesdale won game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:21:32 charlesdale won game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:21:27 charlesdale won game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:21:26 yacitus was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:20:26 yacitus was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:20:24 yacitus was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:20:24 camel was booted in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:20:20 camel was booted in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:20:13 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 14:17:05 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 14:17:04 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 14:17:04 yacitus was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:14:41 was skipped in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:06:18 was skipped in game tipping point on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 14:06:17 IRsmart was booted in game Why are Castles in Caves? on board Crystal Caves 1 Aug 13:59:38 IRsmart was booted in game Why are Castles in Caves? on board Crystal Caves 1 Aug 13:59:38 was skipped in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:54:35 was skipped in game Bring It On! on board Electoral College 1 Aug 13:54:35 was skipped in game 11 on board World War 1 Aug 13:54:34 was booted in game Why are Castles in Caves? on board Crystal Caves 1 Aug 13:54:32 Atkins joined game quickdraw on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:29:48 Atkins joined game quickdraw on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:29:39 was skipped in game test on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:29:06 was skipped in game Resistance is Futile [R6G2] on board The French Resistance 1 Aug 13:29:06 was booted in game cw666 on board War Of The Roses 1 Aug 13:29:05 was skipped in game You Just Got Pawned [R1G5] on board Colossal Crusade 1 Aug 13:29:04 was skipped in game Calling All Bloodsuckers [R8G2] on board Ravenloft 4 1 Aug 13:29:04 was skipped in game LoTR 9 on board LoTR Middle Earth 1 Aug 13:29:03 was skipped in game LoTR on board LoTR Middle Earth 1 Aug 13:29:02 was skipped in game big war on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:29:00 was skipped in game big war on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:58 was skipped in game big war on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:57 was skipped in game harrys game on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:56 was skipped in game harrys game on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:55 was skipped in game zack attack on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:54 was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:53 was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:52 was skipped in game We need more games! on board WarGear Warfare 1 Aug 13:28:51 was skipped in game ranska on board The French Resistance 1 Aug 13:28:50 was skipped in game t0 b33r 0r n07 t0 b33r on board Electoral College 1 Aug 13:28:48 was skipped in game EU on board Expanding Europe 1 Aug 13:28:48 was booted in game Lone Star State on board Texas 1 Aug 13:28:46 was skipped in game Trumpitis on board Infection 1 Aug 13:28:45 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 13:18:57 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 13:18:57 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 13:18:56 TheLion joined game Battle for Hawaii [R5G1] on board Hawaiian Islands 1 Aug 13:18:56 Pratik sent a Public message in game circles 1 Aug 13:05:44
Thank you for posting this. During the period you mentioned while the site was taking 15+ minutes to load a page and I couldn't take my turn, I was booted from the same game multiple times, and had rank subtracted, and boots added to my record, again each time.
This incredibly bad site lag happens most mornings recently.
Often when I had a problem with such instabilities, some weird stuff would happen in the history of the game. Noticing weird stuff in other peoples turns suggests to me that others face the same problem too.
Take an example of this game: http://www.wargear.net/games/player/574433
While the problem is over a long time, I will just point out one turn: turn 9016 (last one at the time of writing). At the bottom right of the map, there is a territory Georgia 3 currently occupied by Red with 1 unit. But the history says it is occupied by Black with -15 units (*negative* 15 units). And some others are also appearing falsely in the history.
Such issues rarely occurred before our major June outage, but occur extremely often now. And I would be very surprised if these weird histories was not linked to the instability issues.
I'd like to add my quick 2 cents. There are more issues since the recent outages, but history errors such negatives and wrong count were there before and some boards it was a standard issue every game. I don't know about civil war in particular
Any other premium players having an issue where on a game screen they can no longer see the expanded stats (troops for each player on low fog settings, # of territories, etc.)? Having an issue with that this morning.
trek k wrote: Any other premium players having an issue where on a game screen they can no longer see the expanded stats (troops for each player on low fog settings, # of territories, etc.)? Having an issue with that this morning.
That is ok for me, but just had my settings reset a 2nd time in a couple of weeks.