PW servers

For the last day or so, we have not had any pw servers running is there a reason for this?

I just noticed that a few BATTLEOPENED messages from server are broken including the one for the PW host:
failed to process server msg:'BATTLEOPENED 7264 0 0 PlanetWars 94.23.171.71 8496 32 1 0 -373207118 FolsomDamFinal PlanetWars online campaign ' (extractSentence failed)

The modName is missing at the end, i guess this is because the OPENBATTLE msg from the PW host is missing this. modname is a required param (afaik) so i think uberserver should not accept the broken OPENBATTLE msg.

Hmm does it really matter? Normal games have better balance anyway and this round of pw is pretty much over.

Why did they lock without telling anyone?

i though it was pretty normal to just close them and not say anything.

Ok this is really a letdown after all the battle all the effort and organization it ends like this lame. I guess the troll IP buyers won.

And if you lose that is -300 ip. Also we would make more ship factory in about 3 weeks after we have payed for 1,000 + IP on all our worlds.

If you have that many ships you can force battle to be on the world you are attacking every game. But you will not have that many ships maybe 8 a turn if you maxed them. But it is very risk you need a more balanced approach because you are defender and attack. Because PW is FFA.

Rick its over and IP buying is going to be removed next round.

You get way more ip if you focus more on ships thats why you have to play to get ships. Getting over 3k (with only 1 player with 30 ship production) ip after playing 4 battles means you get like 30k credits per turn just from ships alone.

I saw cybernetics playing quite some games in a row with like 6 ppl and you could have easily taken 3k+ ip worlds before i would even notice it if you sended alot of ships. But instead of that you randomly attacked worlds with maybe 10 ships?

Its really sad pw gets changed because some nubz who dont know they should build starship factories whine about ip buying being op. Nothing is op about it. I couldnt stop you from winning i only delayed you a bit just like porc ingame does. The main reason i could delay you is that you didnt send enough ships.

Pw goes more and more to nolife 24/7 farming if stuff like ip buying gets removed. Most ppl dont have time to play 20 games in a row like cybernetics did.