Was it something I did?

ID:138661
 
Apr 2 2000, 8:50 am
I had uploaded my new game to the server, and I was playing it, and I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden the game wasn't responding to me... the DS acted like I was still in it, giving me expansion verb lists and such, but nothing had any actual effects, including .logout. So I closed and re-opened the DS and tried to get back into the game... but now it's busy whenever I try. Just this game. Everything else on the dantom server works fine.

Was it something in the code that caused the problem, or did that one part of the server randomly go kaput?

Z
#1 Apr 2 2000, 8:56 am
I just tried removing and re-putting the .dmb file, and there was no upload time for the put. Something's definitely fishy. The last time that happened, with Sheep, when I tried to go to dantom#juice/sheep I went to the old version that I had supposedly removed from the server... when I finally got into the new version, Tom was in the new "easy" high scores... so other people had been going to the right version.

Z
#2 Apr 2 2000, 8:58 pm
In response to Zilal (#1)
Okay... so... I upload "game" to dantom#juice, play it, and it locks up. So I close the Dream Seeker, reopen it and try dantom#juice/game again. Server is busy. Rerouting. Nothing happens. I go to dantom and delete game.dmb and game.rsc. I try dantom#juice/game again. Server is busy. Rerouting. Nothing happens. Trying to put a new game.dmb file up results in no upload time. Trying dantom#juice/game again avails nothing.

Well, I really want to see how the game responds to multiplayer play on the server. So I repeat the process, with "game2." Same thing. And with "game3." Now all of dantom#juice/game, /game2 and /game3 are busy. They've been that way all day... even though all the relevant files have been deleted.

Also: giving up on putting the game on the server for the time being, I hosted it from my own computer. I hosted it at my default port 9876. After a while I logged out and stopped hosting. A couple minutes later I tried to host the same world again, at port 9876... but when I entered it, it wasn't a new game; it was the game state just as I left it when I logged out the last time. This was duplicated a couple times.

I thought that when you stopped hosting a world from your computer, it went away. And that hosting the world again on the same port would make a new one there. Was I mistaken?

Z