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Is lobby down or there were some changes to protocol?

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5 years ago
I cant connect with flobby
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Firepluk
Server is down...
Website is just back up, and I cannot connect with chobby it complains about wrong engine version

P.S. how can u do such breaking updates during prime time FFS
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5 years ago
There was no breaking update. WHR (new rating system) took down the server and then some admins had to scramble to fix the database and restart the server. I may be wrong, I don't know exactly what happened as it was at 6am for me.
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Firepluk
2nd time WHR takes down the server(or maybe even more)
Probably it is time to do something about it?

If it's too resource hungry it needs redesign,
If it does not scale well with the number of players/spikes in activity it should be resigned/replaced with simpler implementation
Or probably server just needs more resources...

Afaik we still have both lobby server and DB on the same host. Not good...
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5 years ago
The options are being actively considered.
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5 years ago
They are not being particularly actively considered. As far as I know it would be a major change to remove WHR at this point, requiring a lot of work and potential for instability.
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There was an admin feature to instantly undo any rating losses due to smurfs. This feature was badly implemented (my fault) and thus excessively taxing on the database. Someone using it in an unintended way at a time of high server load is what ended up overloading the database.

This feature has now been removed. Admins can still undo rating losses, but they will only be applied on the next server restart.
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5 years ago
quote:
Someone
sorry :(
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5 years ago
wait. Was that feature used for me when I lost vs Drones smurf?
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Yes, the feature actually just replaces the smurf with the main in the background. This means your losses to smurf count as losses to drone. For a player as good as you this might still be a loss overall though. Keep in mind that this is damage control at best, the correct solution is still to report and ban smurfs.
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5 years ago
won one, lost one. I'll take that as a compliment Dein, you cant take it back!
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