Trench Wars Repairs!

[Goddess]

Erm...... just a thought. Isnt MAVERICK supposed to be the one FIXING BS? yeah u want to sit back criticizing GO DO YOUR WORK OR GTFO STAFF SON. The fact that we even HAVE a server is a wonder with how we were almost shut down. Or maybe u weren't around when we the staff (including Dock>) were having to ho ourselves out just to get the funds to keep the TW's up?

If you're not the person responsible for fixing bots then what exactly is it that you do?

Oh and right on Jason... way to be the constructive man. You must be a professional something or other that deals with getting things done <3 I 2nd all that which Jason has said and will help in w/e way i can.

[Jason]

if maverick's sarcasm is backed by fact, and the bot server really is that skimpy on hardware, it's time to get serious about fund raising and donations. a server with a gig of ram isn't a server at all.

we (the public) need to know what hardware is currently in the server. we need to know if any parts can be re-used in the building of a new server. and once we know what parts are needed, we can set a budget and start working toward getting the money together.

everyone's tired of the (nearly) constant crashes. it's time to step up and drop down some dough. that's all there is to it.

[Maverick]

Someone should inform Pure_Luck that his crappy server is responsible for 99% of the problems. You can't expect a lightweight server with 1 GB of RAM to run all the bots and websites smoothly.

But hey, just keep shutting down bots, see if it works! <_<
(Which is like chopping of limbs when you're stuck in a box that's too small to fit your body.)



PS. Good work on informing everybody that Pure_Luck and SpaceHiker has taken initiative to repair the bots. Seems like nobody else was working on them.

[Ganon-Knight]

Keep us apprised. Bots dying randomly is a nuisance.

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Since we have no official 'Public relations' staffer anymore, I shall inform the players the current status of the zone.

As we are all aware, the bots have been less then stable for a while now. Pure_Luck and Spacehiker have taken the initiative to find out exactly what the problem with the bots have been. They have started to systematically shut down certain bots and see how the core stability maintains.

Originally the offending bot(s) cause the TWCore to crash thus crashing all bots in the zone. Maverick then moved to 3 cores

TWCore-Events:
This includes: PurePubBots(RoboBoy, RoboGirl, etc), RoboBots(The bots the staff use to do hosting), TWBots(Elim, Baseelim), BJWSBots (Base, Wbduel, Javduel, and spidduel).

TWCore-Leagues:
This includes: DuelBot, TournyBot, MatchBots, TWDBot.

TWCore:
This includes the rest of the miscellaneous Bots the zone has.


01/26-01/27:
Pure_Luck Shut down all of TWCore-Events, leaving the rest of the bots up.
Result: Although there was a longer stability of the other cores, a seperate issue of spawning matchbots was found after Duelbot and all TWJD bots crashed suddenly.

Yesterday 01/27-01/28:
Pure_Luck has shut down All of TWCore-Events except PurePubBot. He has also shut down DuelBot.

Today 01/28-01/29
DoCk> and Maverick spent a good portion of the day working on all the bots. They traced the bot issues to a problem with the elim bots andthey have temporarily removed them while they look at the elim code.
TWCore is down for now. No word on when its being brought back.


I will update this daily, or as soon as issues arise to keep the public informed. This process may take a while, but we are working on fixing the problems once and for all. Thanks for your patience!

-H.M.S. Stargazer