Graalympus

LegendaryTsukasa · #1 01-12-2004, 05:08 AM

When are the Graal Olympics for sparing and such, comeing back?

I jsut remember that when I sparred, it was laggy as heck, and that those NPCs that were there, we too laggy. Basically it was Laggy. Im surprised I got 3rd place threw all the lagg >:O But it was a good deal fun... Will it ever happen again?

kthx

DIABLO2099 · #2 01-12-2004, 05:11 AM

Well, I don't believe Tyhm made any annoucements about their being a winter Graalympics recently.

LegendaryTsukasa · #3 01-12-2004, 05:14 AM

Tyhm got pissed at that so X.x (*Has SSs to Prove*)

Blitz_Hunter · #4 01-12-2004, 05:15 AM

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Originally posted by LegendaryTsukasa
When are the Graal Olympics for sparing and such, comeing back?

I jsut remember that when I sparred, it was laggy as heck, and that those NPCs that were there, we too laggy. Basically it was Laggy. Im surprised I got 3rd place threw all the lagg >:O But it was a good deal fun... Will it ever happen again?

kthx

Hmm, I get the impression it was pretty laggy.

LegendaryTsukasa · #5 01-12-2004, 05:16 AM

What gave you that idea?

rrright XD

WHIPENIE4 · #6 01-12-2004, 05:25 AM

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Originally posted by LegendaryTsukasa
What gave you that idea?

rrright XD

Well I think it might of been the excessive use of the word LAG. i know. Sarcastic you are but Sarcastic I iz. I AM WHAT I IZ. disney x.x

GUNIT ARE YOU READY? ready or not, here i come.

superb · #7 01-12-2004, 05:31 AM

I think part of it was the scripts weren't designed to handle so many people.

LegendaryTsukasa · #8 01-12-2004, 05:34 AM

That too =(

Can it come back or?

superb · #9 01-12-2004, 05:35 AM

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Originally posted by LegendaryTsukasa
That too =(

Can it come back or?

I wanted to see the winter olympics.

Maybe next year.

DarkShadows_Legend · #10 01-12-2004, 05:53 AM

There was a lot of problems. People were complaining of lag and then that whole big thing with Houdiniman abusing his power and disrupting an event.

I hope there is another one cause I want to take part this time since I got another computer that is faster than my old one

konidias · #11 01-12-2004, 11:41 AM

Basically Tyhm couldn't script worth beans. He wouldn't let anyone help him fix anything. The event was a big disappointment. I think he just kind of got frustrated and gave up on ever doing that again.

It really was terrible though. For the first 5 minutes I was on, it seemed okay, but then just got progressively laggier. By the time the first events were starting, I was lagging so bad that I couldn't move, and I just started warping all over the place, with people standing there. I'd walk into a door and instead of being on the right level, I'd be in the middle of an arena and then back out in the hallway again.

Hevaricubed · #12 01-12-2004, 02:42 PM

Here's me thinking tyhm could script.

How ignorant of me ^_^

Matman58 · #13 01-12-2004, 03:51 PM

Yea I was the same way Koni, warping everywhere. The server was so laggy that my isp kept crashing and i would have to unplug my modem and plug it back in for my internet to work again. It was very bad. Oh well so much for that failed project. I mean I thought the idea was great but it could of been done better

LegendaryTsukasa · #14 01-13-2004, 01:24 AM

That jsut means you have to build the server up better, and leave some staff out.

Crap id run it XD!

Like thatd happen, but really we should have it back in the spring!

zokemon · #15 01-13-2004, 03:35 PM

If it went back up I think either Tyhm would have to run it or someone else with a good backround as a Manager...Just paying $59.99 doesnt mean you have the right skills to be responcible, fair, orginized and on top of things

Plus that is pretty stupid that he would not let anyone script for him -.-

LegendaryTsukasa · #16 01-14-2004, 03:05 AM

I was being sarcastic about me actually running it you know =/

zokemon · #17 01-14-2004, 03:54 AM

I dont know you so I dont know if you would be good for the job or not...I wasn't directing that at you but simply continuing what you has said directed to everyone becing as there are 200 servers out there with crappy managers who are only managers because they have the $$$ to pay Cyberjoueurs...

Dach · #18 01-14-2004, 04:06 AM

you mean it was put on some extra space on the G2k1 server, thus the lag, well most of it as far as I know

Blue_Dragn · #19 01-14-2004, 05:44 AM

Intresting i cant find my other post that was here now

Oh well then i will just sugar coat it, go graalympics

superb · #20 01-14-2004, 07:46 AM

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Originally posted by Dach
you mean it was put on some extra space on the G2k1 server, thus the lag, well most of it as far as I know

Yeah that was an issue as well. Was 2k1 opened yet? I don't remember.

LegendaryTsukasa · #21 01-14-2004, 02:04 PM

I dont think it was opened.

But they did have Kingdoms under the "Playerworld" thingy in the profile, so that you could look like that inside the server but =X

And Id just want someone to hold it. =P

Genesis · #22 01-15-2004, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by zokemon
I dont know you so I dont know if you would be good for the job or not...I wasn't directing that at you but simply continuing what you has said directed to everyone becing as there are 200 servers out there with crappy managers who are only managers because they have the $$$ to pay Cyberjoueurs...

What does it matter what the other servers are doing it shouldnot bother you there money is paying for Graal witch helps us in the long run.

If they are crappy managers there playerworld doesnot go up I dont see how it matters to anyone.

I think its cool going to all the pw and seeing what the community can do I was like that when I first started I worked on San as a LAT I was so bad then I dont even know how I made the team then became Admin then I started to get better. What I am trying to say is that the more a player works on a pw the better he becomes witch he will work on a diff pw for free and help out graal.

Blue_Dragn · #23 01-16-2004, 02:11 AM

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Originally posted by Genesis

What does it matter what the other servers are doing it shouldnot bother you there money is paying for Graal witch helps us in the long run.

If they are crappy managers there playerworld doesnot go up I dont see how it matters to anyone.

I think its cool going to all the pw and seeing what the community can do I was like that when I first started I worked on San as a LAT I was so bad then I dont even know how I made the team then became Admin then I started to get better. What I am trying to say is that the more a player works on a pw the better he becomes witch he will work on a diff pw for free and help out graal.

Finally some Sanity

LegendaryTsukasa · #24 01-17-2004, 12:53 AM

Mhmm.

Heck, Id do the Olimpics on my server if someone would let me. Sure were still working on it, but Id host it anytime.

I just want the darn Olimpics back, whether or not I host it, someone else hosts it, doesnt matter to me

Speaking of which *E-mails PWs*

jake13jake · #25 01-22-2004, 12:03 AM

Actually, it wouldn't be too bad of an idea if servers competed to host the graalympics... Graalympus server isn't too bad aside from the lag and the tiling of the central arena. It would probably be funner to hold them once every three months. I won the first endurance contest (god was that freakishly boring)... but I never got a t-shirt or anything because I joked in my email to tyhm that I would send back the shirt to see if I could get a cash refund and he called that "threatening to defraud graal"... or something like that. Not that I care about getting a T-Shirt... The ability to have a second guild if I won would be cool... or like an exclusive global guild tag that said "Endurance Champion", or something...

Tyhm · #26 01-22-2004, 02:33 PM

It was a nightmare, I agree.
I had to make a world with a skeleton crew for staffers, so there would be no risk of someone giving anyone hints on how to run the events.
I had to contact all the PW Owners to get them to find representatives. And none of them wanted to participate.
I had to keep offering incentives that I knew Unixmad would never deliver on (incidentally, the prizes were real; the extra prize for signing up I've never heard anything else about, he hinted and did nothing)
I had to use an engine I'd never used before (I'm a clientside man) with no testers.
I had to take the most traffic EVER on the slowest server EVER.
Angel and I had to invent scripts to do things which, to my knowledge, have never been successfully done before. And probably that's still true today.
I had to make each event fair regardless of the inevitability of lag.
I had to adjudicate the winner in an event where both players are handicapped by impossible latency.
All this with practically no word from Stefan on what's going wrong with the server, a hint to what needs to be fixed in the scripts, nothing. Unixmad was gonna come online for the events to draw traffic and had me advertise that each time, nothing. I was gonna have an announcement on the website well in advance, a schedule posted, nothing. I was gonna have 13 teams of 5 players each and a specific timeline for when each could be online for their event, nothing. I was gonna have more than a month to make the Winter Graalympics for XMas Break, nada.

I got a server port to make my little one man generated world. People liked the autograph books. I consider that a success.

jake13jake · #27 01-22-2004, 08:07 PM

lol, tyhm. You have a lot of pressure put on you, I agree. I think you seem more stressed out than you should be, though. If you don't have the time and resources given to you when you say you'd need them, you can just say "told ya so"

I agree on the autograph books. I just wish that you could carry more than one thing at a time, though... Like you could have a soda, and then set it aside to take out your autograph book.

But honestly, Tyhm, if you're this stressed out about things you should just quit. It's not worth being stressed out over.

Blue_Dragn · #28 01-22-2004, 08:32 PM

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Originally posted by Tyhm

It was Thym vs the world, and it still turned out pretty fun regardless of the lag and confusion.

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But honestly, Tyhm, if you're this stressed out about things you should just quit. It's not worth being stressed out over.

And then one of graals only Decent Longrunning Admins be gone? No

LegendaryTsukasa · #29 01-23-2004, 04:10 AM

Why quit over one thing o.o

Ive got a server crew who, willingly, wants to host it... We have NATs LATs and a good team for actually pulling it off, instead of a one-manned job like you-Tyhm did very very good indeed-did, to make the server a good one.

Were gonna limit the NPCs and stuff however, to have less lag, and the levels were makeing, are gonna be to, not be really really pretty, but to be so that players who arnt actually competeing, can still watch, and those players who ARE competeing, wont lagg from the other players.

I wanted to get Tyhms permission, along with some other stafferz, before actually going threw, and putting up everything. Id want SOME support from the staff... And screw the material prizes, the winning and pride and stuff, will do for the average player.

Tyhm, im sending you an E-mail.

jake13jake · #30 01-23-2004, 06:12 AM

If one no longer enjoy Graal then you should take a break from it.

If one feels restrainted because one is a long respected admin, one shouldn't be. Especially when the admin position doesn't offer any comfort.

LegendaryTsukasa · #31 01-24-2004, 06:09 AM

Urm, how does that have to do with Graalympus?