MrHassenpheffer

Ok.

What I have learned as a slot technician of 5 1/2 years:

Heat is your machines 2nd worst enemy. your computers primary #1 enemy is cigarette smoke. If you are a smoker and you smoke anywhere near your computer you can hang it up. Nicotine will coat all of your sensitive connections and make it impossible for your hard drive to function correctly.

back to our second worst enemy.

heat.

What I have learned from being a slot technician for 5 1/2 years: Heat can and will cause read/write errors on a hard drive thus corrupting information communicated. I have read many an email from slot techs in regaurds to this heat related failure on many a computer component. Slot machines are computers. Not only that but they have numerous computers connected to them at all times <duh>. Very often when checking the system we would see numbers that say "this machine isn't talking" and thus have to perform surgery. I have reloaded so many hard drives in slot machines because those mainboards would overheat and start to hiccup with the data transfer rate. they try to read something and it misreads and poof. Slot machines are weird. They keep all the hard drives and video cards completely separate from the mainboards. The mainboards are often seen in a heavily shielded heavily locked down metal-box-with-no-vents... and they would ALWAYS break down due to read write errors on the hard drive that was in a more ventilated often cooler part of the slot machine.

In short, heat was a factor in read/process/write errors. With all the hard drive controllers on the mainboard...That's a possible culprit. So is the cigarette smoke. That is my fractured logic, I'm sticking to it and I'm waiting for a response so that we can help TROUBLESHOOT this problem.

What I think might have happened: i17 was loaded, something DID get hot and fractured a driver SOMEWHERE...

reformatting and reloading everything MIGHT fix the problem unless it is smoke damage,

in the case of smoke damage- time for a new laptop, sorry.

btw did I mention I was a slot tech for 5 1/2 years? That might also be one reason I don't make much sense. Lets see if we can attack this problem with an open mind. I'm not the kind of guy that gets upset when I'm wrong.

oh look a penny!

edit: my bad, in my earlier post, when I said "simple" what I meant was "Everything I just said in THIS post" you people must hate me now.

I don't care what anyone says. Its i17.


simple math=

works before i17

doesn't work after i17

problem is i17.

simple.

My question to you, have you been involved with the test server? I'm asking to see if you had problems there as well might lead to a driver corruption somewhere that could only be fixed by a format/reinstall

so THATS what happened to my family!

I thought those carrots were a little bloody...

edit: point made tho- people are tired of crap.

Several issues where I have dealt with tech support via petitions leads me to believe that tech support doesn't know English very well. I think it might be someone on the other end that is reading english well enough to the point that he/she/it can reply a very limited FAQ type response.


usually it winds up with said support "escalating your petition to a Senior Customer Support Representative to further assist you" or better yet... hey boss can you translate this?

I cant really remember an issue where there wasn't a bunch of bugs.

Just look at it this way, If your picnic has bugs that's a sign that the food is good!

I am going to go hide in my base.

Ciao.

QQ WhYAREYOUSOMEANTOPETSIHATEYOU! QQ



joke, that was hilarious

everything is an opportunity. this was one not to be missed.

I was there, probably with you somewhere...

I had the opportunity to crack one joke before it perma crashed me.

also: a zone seems to be "broken" from this event... on Virtue, Sharkhead has unexplainable server latency. A few people were complaining about constant mapserving.

Learning from mistakes is the most valuable super power our dev team has. Lets help develop that super power by forgiving more often.

I'm with you on this.

Before this Q and A thing took place , I saw where it was going. When Castle nudged me on one of my posts, Pointing towards my being wrong, My first instinct was to gather information and make another "point", but if I did THAT <again>, then not only would we have lost Castle on this issue, he probably would have put me on ignore, turned off his pm's: Leaving us without a sympathetic ear. The better idea was to meet this effort and participate, I don't mind being wrong. I was in fact, hoping that I WAS wrong. So I participated and I was disappointed just like many others that were asking the SAME questions about bases. I stayed on that forum and followed it every minute of the day. I gave it my best effort. The results are frustrating as I knew they would be.

Becoming hot headed just means you are passionate about what you do. Its a good thing, but posting while in this state of frustration is not. I had to get up walk away <for two days> and cool off before I started playing.

Negative attitudes are contagious! nobody was going to catch MINE.

My advice is, cool off before posting. Lets not start the name calling thing, or our points will be missed AGAIN. The outcome and whats to follow are going to be heavily influenced by our behavior. Lets groom this situation in a positive manner. This isn't over.

In the end this Q/A wasn't useless.

We have a few devs here, reading our posts, interacting with us. That means they care! It's impossible to miss how important bases are to us. We need to make the most of this by being polite, keeping the communication open, and keeping them interested! I'm sure more information about bases will result as I'm certain they will bring this up to the rest of the team.

I'm anxious to see what happens next!

Castle, you see us here, you see how passionate we are about bases. I can understand if you or anyone isn't allowed to disclose information. I also appreciate you interacting with us on this level, it shows you really care. That's what we need most right now is someone that cares.


I beseech you to approach your fellow team members. Even if they cant talk about anything base related, Let them know we exist!

ah well, at least im finally on facebook

If.

you.

say.

so.

This should be the only question asked.

Any other questions are pointless.

I would like for them to use the forums.

I would like to know something about bases.

I would like the answers to be clear. <its not like some other game is going to steal the idea for sg bases>