TWL Rule 7.07

[Jason]

i should have stressed more that the weekday timeslots would be there as a buffer. by all means, everyone could try to still get the weekend timeslots, but if, for whatever reason, you just can't seem to get a time nailed down for a certain match, you'd have the option of scheduling a weekday match.

it's all about options, baby.

[Sufficient]

RSHL is very much a North American zone/league. TWL is much more Euro-active.

[Miku19]

Having weekday matches is a sure-fire way to give the abusers an even bigger timeframe to abuse further.

[Epinephrine]

This was basically a technology issue. Ideally the website would automatically lock out the time once 48 hours has passed. Unfortunately due to the php-ness of it all and the lack of knowing how to make the website check for these things automatically (without it running some massively slowing down infinite loop) castromarx and I couldn't figure out how to make this work 3 years ago. I guess no one has either.

What I used to do in season 6 was check tuesday night, then wednesday night to see if any 48-hour rule games had happened, then I would just manually add them in. If any game slipped passed my checks, I'd just take it and schedule 6 games per slot and somehow fit it in (even if I had to host it myself). This took a lot of work though on my part, and I guess the TWL staff now doesn't want to do it.

[Nethila]

will you chill out? if the other squad doesnt reply to ur time slot 48 hours after you initially suggested, i will give you that time even if that time slot is full.

[Sufficient]

Having weekday matches is a sure-fire way to give the abusers an even bigger timeframe to abuse further.

I don't get it.

[Disqualifier]

will you chill out? if the other squad doesnt reply to ur time slot 48 hours after you initially suggested, i will give you that time even if that time slot is full.

Thank you, but when you replied to this topic, it's been over three days since I first issued the challenge.
So I don't think I was flipping out when I was unsure if the staff would do their job, as they hadn't done when I posted this topic. However, despite this small delay, I'm glad to see staff is doing their job.

[Sleepy Weasel]

A weekday timeslot wouldn't help, we already have a saturday timeslot that no one uses. The only real alternative I see would be a set schedule before the season starts.

[Izor]

A weekday timeslot wouldn't help, we already have a saturday timeslot that no one uses. The only real alternative I see would be a set schedule before the season starts.

so true, its IMPOSSIBLE to get a saturday game should you need one. for instance, if you want to take your mom to dinner for mothers day

[Miku19]

I don't get it.

Well for example a squad that's sure they'll lose will camp the start of scheduling for a monday morning slot (this is a complete guess as far as the possible timeslots go), just so they can make the turnoff of the good squad a bit worse, giving them the possibility of an upset win.

[Mantra-Slider]

nm I was wrong

[Foreign]

This was basically a technology issue. Ideally the website would automatically lock out the time once 48 hours has passed. Unfortunately due to the php-ness of it all and the lack of knowing how to make the website check for these things automatically (without it running some massively slowing down infinite loop) castromarx and I couldn't figure out how to make this work 3 years ago. I guess no one has either.

What I used to do in season 6 was check tuesday night, then wednesday night to see if any 48-hour rule games had happened, then I would just manually add them in. If any game slipped passed my checks, I'd just take it and schedule 6 games per slot and somehow fit it in (even if I had to host it myself). This took a lot of work though on my part, and I guess the TWL staff now doesn't want to do it.

ever hear of bash (assuming the server is a lamp)? or you could just place a check for it in a functions include so that every time a page loads in the scheduling area php does a quick check for 48 hour old un-replied proposals. This would have to happen early in the page script (that way no other games can fill that slot since at the exact time the 48 hours is up, anyone scheduling a game would not be able to steal the slot because the code to execute the 48-hour rule would precede the other time-slot's insertion).

edit:
something along the lines of....

$sql="UPDATE matchslots SET matchtime=proposedtime WHERE $hoursdifference > 47";
mysql_query($sql);

obviously i don't know the fields involved but logically it doesn't look like a big problem.

edit 2x: actually if you want me to do this, I would be happy to. I'm sure you have capable people though.

[Epinephrine]

I tried doing something like that Foreign.. worked on it forever but couldn't get it working. It's set up in a very weird way, I can't explain it becase it took me a long time just to figure it out.

Admittedly I specifically learned php to work on the TWL website, and even though I was quite a capable programmer, I lacked experience

[Sleepy Weasel]

You'd have to have a check before the update in addition to the page load, in case some squads 48 hours passed between the time the page was last loaded and the time a squad accepted.

But yeah, someone should probably hack something together to handle that.