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Dave et al

Servers seem to be screwed when trying to pick a team or make transfers for any competition.

Will this be fixed before the giro start? ~X(

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[Aragonite]

As above.What is a tenner
As above.What is a tenner nowadays. I reckon you will get 250’ish days racing as a premiun player, that’s 4p a day! I cannot comment on what it used to be like as I’m also a first year player, but the season is only half way through, and it’s already the best tenner I’ve spent in a long time.

[Sniffer]

Agree. First time player
Agree. First time player this year. I have had more than £10s worth of entertainment long before this event.

PS I was affected and didn’t get a purist team in until stage 3. I have got over it.

[TERatcliffe26]

Thats fair enough, and its
Thats fair enough, and its fair enough for people to be upset with the situation and be able to complain.

But on the whole since ive been involved ive not seen this happen at such a crucial time, and timing you could say is everything, but as a balance and for what people pay, 10 quid for the year id say its more than value for money despite the odd glitch, the timing of this was unfortunate. I guess alot depends on what you expect for a tenner, but for me we get an awful lot of races for the price and when u can barely get 3 pints these days for that price i dont think its bad for a year of fun. And yes there are other games out there that are free, you can get a similar amount for free from this game and also a fair amount of other free games are attached to in my eyes much bigger/more global companies

[mdavidford]

TERatcliffe26 wrote:Just to

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Just to your middle bit, having someone extra to dave doing that would cost money, and im sure a yearly salary would be more than just the tenner we pay.

Well that’s the rub, isn’t it? If people are going to pay for something, they’re going to expect a certain level of support for it. If the sums don’t add up to provide that, then there’s a hole in the business plan. In which case, those running the game have various options:
– find some extra investment/income from somewhere – this may not be available
– change the price point to increase the income to the point where it can be funded – it may just not be possible to generate sufficient income
– change the funding model so that people’s expectations are lowered – eg fund it through advertising or ask for donations rather than making a charge
– accept the risk, and when something like this inevitably goes wrong, just wear the criticism and lost subscriptions

Either way though, to say that it’s just one of those things, that it couldn’t have been anticipated, and so people shouldn’t complain, is misleading.

[Gkam84]

I don’t think they would need
I don’t think they would need to be near the servers, they could have remote access, unless it actually goes down, you should be able to get into it remotely.

Even then, someone would charge a fortune for doing it, they would also need to know what they are doing regarding the game functions. So it’s not just a simple, boom boom boom, fixed. Dave’s put alot of work into the game, knowing him, it will be a complex server, lol

[TERatcliffe26]

STEVESPRO 79

STEVESPRO 79 wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Just to your middle bit, having someone extra to dave doing that would cost money, and im sure a yearly salary would be more than just the tenner we pay.

Hardly think it would be a yearly salary TER for a couple of hours a week…

But then would need to be near the servers surely? So surely its either a full time capacity or none at all, as im not sure someone with the kind it knowledge needed would want a stanby job for an hour or 2 a week

[STEVESPRO 79]

TERatcliffe26 wrote:Just to

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Just to your middle bit, having someone extra to dave doing that would cost money, and im sure a yearly salary would be more than just the tenner we pay.

Hardly think it would be a yearly salary TER for a couple of hours a week…

[TERatcliffe26]

Just to your middle bit,
Just to your middle bit, having someone extra to dave doing that would cost money, and im sure a yearly salary would be more than just the tenner we pay.

[mdavidford]

Gkam84 wrote:It wasn’t

Gkam84 wrote:

It wasn’t unusable, it was slow

It was so slow as to be unusable, at least for some users.

Gkam84 wrote:

with over 1600 teams in, there were less then 50 teams that I can see who were affected.

As I said, this assumes that anyone who did get a team in was not affected, which is just wrong.

Gkam84 wrote:

It just happens that Dave had something one when the server had an issue, which is not predictable and with Dave being the only one who does the server side of things, we were helpless to do anything to sort it.

Not predictable, but plannable for. It seems the main issue that needs addressing is having only one person who does the server side of things, and apparently with authority to make decisions about how to run the game, and no-one to cover when he’s away.

nemysys wrote:

I’m actually quite disappointed in this outcome… this time I think it has been handled badly… a solution that doesn’t solve the problem a lot of players experienced.

Hard to see what could have been done though, given that there wasn’t anyone who could take a decision to neutralise in the initial short window of opportunity – beyond the apology that’s been given, what would you have like to have seen happen that wouldn’t have been unfair to somebody?

In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter, and there ain’t no fixing it now.

[livestrongnick]

If you try it puts you in
If you try it puts you in negative transfers and says you’ve used too many

[backflipbedlem]

Too much spare time on your
Too much spare time on your hands!

[Joelsim]

You don’t get any transfers.
You don’t get any transfers. I’ve just tried to add Matthews, Gilbert & Felline. And I will try again tomorrow to add the winners too.

My name is Nigel Farage.

[backflipbedlem]

Moist von Lipwig

Moist von Lipwig wrote:

backflipbedlem wrote:

So apparently I can change my purist team, even after I have gained points for the first 3 stages?
I know it wouldn’t be easy to just open it up to people who haven’t selected a team yet, but surely this is making it slightly less purist!??

try making a change ;)

I dont want to, lol. I dont want to cheat, and I’ve already picked the winning purist team! B-)

What happens?

[Moist von Lipwig]

backflipbedlem wrote:So

backflipbedlem wrote:

So apparently I can change my purist team, even after I have gained points for the first 3 stages?
I know it wouldn’t be easy to just open it up to people who haven’t selected a team yet, but surely this is making it slightly less purist!??

try making a change 😉

[Sniffer]

Had 8 riders in my purist,
Had 8 riders in my purist, adding a 9th and then the clock ticked over. Probably missed out on stage 3 scores, but thanks Dave.

I have given this even less thought than normal!

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