Warrior General Games

Anybody have the links to this weeks games? looking for Oakland at Miami.

They're not going to work anyways, so just sit tight for them to finish simming

What happened to them this week? And you did not give out to much for hellen keller scarlet. She has been looking good, LOOKING hahahah

Via Bort:

- Scores on home page are now hidden by default. Click "show score" to see the stat line for last game.
- Live games may no longer be watched. In their stead, I've created a javascript version of the replay page to reveal plays slowly. You can reach this by clicking "view" for your last game.

http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=2262&page=2

Thanks dead, why have they changed the sim? was it messing up the games or something?

hey scarlet, maybe you can bring this to bort's attention. while the whole reveal plays slowly hide the score thing is cool, it also doesnt tell us much. like before, we could got the the gamelink about an hour or so prior to the scheduled sim time, and pound the refresh button furiously to "watch" the game unfold. with the new system will we still be able to get the game "early" or do we have to wait until the scheduled sim time (ie 3pm EST for me). i kind of liked being able to get to the game earlier, because that way it didnt interfere with the job. anyway just a thought, probably wont change anything but hey....

They changed it because when people kept on smashing the F5 during the sims, the servers were getting pretty overloaded. And come on, it's an extra 20 minutes to wait...if your schedules are that wrapped up around watching games "live" it's a little sad

As for Hellen Keller she was just doing too well, haha. She'll probably make a return today so don't worry.

Here's the little discussion that was had in the Mod Forum:

Originally posted by Bort
Originally posted by bigtisme

Originally posted by Bort


Yes, I'll add that at some point here, but I really just needed to get it in as soon as possible, because the live game watching was getting pretty common and causing a big strain on the database server.

was it watching the games....or slamming f5 every 3 seconds?

The slamming F5. Every single time the page loaded it had to create a temporary table to do sorting on all the data, which eats up a lot of CPU and disk overhead. Once it's finished and cached, it's a really fast operation to just looked up the cached page.

lol its not the watching the "live" games thing that has to be scheduled around....its the not getting caught messin around at work thing thats the problem.....Uncle Sam probably wouldnt be too impressed that i spent his money to watch a simulated football game for 30 minutes when i should have been doing some other equally unimportant, or unnecessary task.

Cool I am not that wrapped On watching live. I was looking and noticed that it was not alowwing to link in but it is cool because yes you could tell the servers were running really slow. And as far as Hellen Scarlet she uses the force to guide the ball. LOL

Originally posted by Solo304
Cool I am not that wrapped On watching live. I was looking and noticed that it was not alowwing to link in but it is cool because yes you could tell the servers were running really slow. And as far as Hellen Scarlet she uses the force to guide the ball. LOL

That and I heard that she got some SONAR going on.

Originally posted by scarletmbb
Here's the little discussion that was had in the Mod Forum:

Originally posted by Bort

Originally posted by bigtisme


Originally posted by Bort



Yes, I'll add that at some point here, but I really just needed to get it in as soon as possible, because the live game watching was getting pretty common and causing a big strain on the database server.

was it watching the games....or slamming f5 every 3 seconds?

The slamming F5. Every single time the page loaded it had to create a temporary table to do sorting on all the data, which eats up a lot of CPU and disk overhead. Once it's finished and cached, it's a really fast operation to just looked up the cached page.



Not that I care a whole lot about watching it live, but that explanation sounds like bad architecture/coding to me.

You can take that up with Bort, haha. He's the one who has pretty much done the whole coding for the game.

That's fine. The game is in Beta so I understand. But going forward, I would that live game watching is a fun way to draw people in and there are certainly better ways to do that rather than creating temp tables to sort data. Just suggesting that that is something he should look into since it appears that there are a lot of people interested in live game watching.

I actually didn't mind it this way. I just didn't look at the score and played it at about 7.5/8 speed. A lot more convenient than hitting F5 a bunch. Just had to wait an extra 30 minutes.