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And for the next round, I've put the leaders back, changed the industry multiplier from 2.8 to 4, and made it much harder to loose land to people (you need to send in all your troops, and then you can loose up to a fourth of the land that exchanged the last time you attacked someone).

Redwall: Warlords Turbo
22 of the 58 Warlords in the game are considered active.
14 Warlords have been destroyed, and 13 Warlords have been abandoned.
6 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 0 Warlord protectorates, and 5 active Clans.

1. The True Rat Masser is Back (#44)
$241,006,175 with 129,670 Acres

2. Apparition (#13)
$201,384,030 with 15,039 Acres

3. Take it easy (#34)
$198,629,830 with 108,323 Acres

4. RVD. Mr. Monday Night (#11)
$145,811,459 with 32,418 Acres

5. Peace Alliance (#9)
$114,482,131 with 34,927 Acres

6. Fierce Divinity (#32)
$76,703,588 with 40,011 Acres

7. Skittles (#18)
$69,340,567 with 19,986 Acres

8. wolf (test #2) (#41)
$53,443,212 with 29,410 Acres

9. Shadow (#14)
$48,224,687 with 34,067 Acres

10. Lightning Strikes Again (#48)
$42,032,267 with 27,829 Acres

11. Pesticide (#45)
$37,964,031 with 27,768 Acres

12. wolf (test #1) (#39)
$32,919,281 with 12,442 Acres

13. pbj2234 (#46)
$32,685,886 with 12,144 Acres

14. riddick (#10)
$22,568,110 with 14,864 Acres

15. Muppeteater (#49)
$20,605,030 with 19,040 Acres

Most Rats
The True Rat Masser is Back (#44)
91,271,400 Rats

Most Weasels
The True Rat Masser is Back (#44)
8,832,931 Weasels

Most Stoats
The True Rat Masser is Back (#44)
9,414,097 Stoats

Most Skiffs
wolf (test #2) (#41)
4,701,946 Skiffs

Most unable to spell "Just"
RVD. Mr. Monday Night (#11)
Juss...Juss to hard.

Most Food
Apparition (#13)
9,419,257,722 Food

Most Cash
Lightning Strikes Again (#48)
8,958,032,727 Cash

Most Leaders
L.L. Scouting (Land Farm) (#8)
0 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Shadow (#14)
680 Loyalty

Most Land
The True Rat Masser is Back (#44)
129,670 Land

Most Total Offenses
RVD. Mr. Monday Night (#11)
2,212 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
RVD. Mr. Monday Night (#11)
2,049 Total Defenses

people wanted me to change the setup...so it had to wait until I had time. Sorry; It's up now, reg sans leaders.

Redwall: Warlords Turbo
18 of the 81 Warlords in the game are considered active.

24 Warlords have been destroyed, and 26 Warlords have been abandoned.
8 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 0 Warlord protectorates, and 8 active Clans.

1. Gut-Shot Straight (#5)
$458,858,271 with 54,630 Acres

2. |{ 7|-|X b4i (#49)
$354,716,673 with 44,405 Acres

3. Blood Wake joined on the 5th (#73)
$278,274,323 with 32,620 Acres

4. LLBD (#54)
$92,149,451 with 43,671 Acres

5. justry (#23)
$72,365,315 with 78,458 Acres

6. Peace Alliance (#15)
$60,379,197 with 39,391 Acres

7. The Legion of the Ninth (#57)
$60,147,647 with 20,344 Acres

8. BaNaNa (-: (#36)
$56,273,378 with 8,054 Acres

9. Sinking Shark (#4)
$42,203,974 with 16,777 Acres

10. The Hounds of Ulster 2.0 (#75)
$39,517,670 with 20,863 Acres

11. Sicarius (#59)
$30,227,365 with 7,046 Acres

12. Lord Aurora (#62)
$30,182,548 with 27,485 Acres

13. Skittles (#7)
$20,806,042 with 11,006 Acres

14. Mation (#60)
$15,975,352 with 12,209 Acres

15. L.L. Scouting (Admin controlled) (#22)
$14,673,670 with 16,514 Acres

Most Rats
BaNaNa (-: (#36)
48,372,668 Rats

Most Weasels
Blood Wake joined on the 5th (#73)
29,660,722 Weasels

Most Stoats
|{ 7|-|X b4i (#49)
35,417,388 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Gut-Shot Straight (#5)
31,748,604 Skiffs

Most Food
Gut-Shot Straight (#5)
2,216,119,385 Food

Most Cash
Peace Alliance (#15)
43,750,391,004 Cash

Most Leaders
Peace Alliance (#15)
5,439,394 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Sinking Shark (#4)
42,399,489 Loyalty

Most Land
justry (#23)
78,458 Land

Most Total Offenses
The Legion of the Ninth (#57)
1,396 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
Sinking Shark (#4)
1,224 Total Defenses

Redwall: Warlords Turbo
32 of the 74 Warlords in the game are considered active.

18 Warlords have been destroyed, and 12 Warlords have been abandoned.
16 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 0 Warlord protectorates, and 9 active Clans.

1. Army of the Apes (#19)
$351,160,999 with 28,773 Acres

2. Death To The Infidels (#8)
$254,130,458 with 11,371 Acres

3. Blood Wake (#4)
$207,128,546 with 23,208 Acres

4. Peace Alliance (#10)
$142,642,673 with 19,596 Acres

5. Pocket AA''S (#27)
$103,968,350 with 41,843 Acres

6. The Beatles (#43)
$69,187,379 with 25,021 Acres

7. riddick2 (#46)
$65,870,183 with 71,389 Acres

8. The Noob of Noobs (#60)
$52,408,361 with 10,009 Acres

9. Garefello (#7)
$47,609,365 with 74,406 Acres

10. *_* (#62)
$34,068,205 with 4,913 Acres

11. Fresh Watar Fighters (#26)
$26,580,663 with 13,324 Acres

12. M&Ms (#53)
$26,351,119 with 17,427 Acres

13. Nohc is Back (Again) (#54)
$20,397,300 with 13,906 Acres

14. Riggu Felis (#15)
$19,261,681 with 19,138 Acres

15. Jerrycom42 (#63)
$18,501,852 with 14,259 Acres

Most Rats
Army of the Apes (#19)
37,673,499 Rats

Most Weasels
Army of the Apes (#19)
13,548,259 Weasels

Most Stoats
Army of the Apes (#19)
33,977,186 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Army of the Apes (#19)
19,889,519 Skiffs

Most Food
Pocket AA''S (#27)
2,457,467,771 Food

Most Cash
Turtle Dog (#21)
10,133,443,871 Cash

Most Leaders
Peace Alliance (#10)
5,385,475 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Army of the Apes (#19)
28,546,868 Loyalty

Most Land
Garefello (#7)
74,406 Land

Most Total Offenses
Garefello (#7)
1,667 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
Garefello (#7)
1,043 Total Defenses

Sorry about the delay - ultra business.

So, I've put turns back, but as you can tell, it's on a slightly different scale:
In turbo "You get 30 Turns every 60 minutes", at 6 minutes after the hour
In reg, "You get 7 Turns every 60 minutes", at 3 minutes after the hour

If people keep hounding on the server to make us take so much CPU, Turbo will get turns less frequently, and will eventually have to be stopped. This could create different dynamics in the game because it's not very continuous anymore, but we'll see how things go.

We ran for two years with more servers and more players, so logically it shouldn't be a problem.

Well, bravo, to everyone who has been mucking about, and the idiots who put up with their lies and schemes:

Hello,

I have had to disable your cron jobs as the processes weren't dying off, and
the server had load of 44. Usual load is up to around 10.

As this has caused an issue before, I must ask that you do not put them back
again, as they are not suitable for our shared hosting plan.

You need to upgrade to dedicated if you want to host these. Alternatively,
it might be ok if you run them every hour, but definately not as they have been
running, as they have caused problems twice now.

As of...now, everything has reset. Everyone has an equal opportunity to get to the top. Regular and Turbo, and turns are running at the normal rate. Things have been in good levels pretty consistantly, so we shouldn't have any major problems. I'll be working closely to make sure things run efficiently and that we don't encounter crazy usage issues.

Turbo's been reset, and I put in land buying because soomeone was hounding me about it, and I didn't have any better ideas. You buy land from other people, it costs a tenth of their networth or $1,500,000 (whichever is higher) per acre. So...yes! cheers. enjoy.

One of the problem with all the dead warlords was that, with the way we were doing rankings, it assign everyone their new rank (even if it was the same as their old one) every 10 minutes of every hour of every day. With over a thousand accounts, and the processing we do on each query to ensure saftey, you can imagine the load. So I just added a check to make sure that the new rank is different than the old rank when we assign one. We'll see by tomorrow how that affects the usage statistics, and go from there.

In the mean time, Reg turns are moving normally again. You all still want a reset?

So our usage spiked. Across all the sites, we're using 1.7% of the possible CPU power of an entire server over an entire day. The other sites on rovl are never a problem - it's always RWL, I find.

A few things, then:
Until this gets resolved, turns will come once a day if at all.
I am resetting regular in the first days of the new year, be prepared
I am resetting turbo at the same time - it's useless to reset it now, because there may be no turns.
I'm angry because this is the third time the hosting company has threatened to suspend my account because of RWL in the past few months. (admittedly, this might not be because of RWL. The last two times were, and they sent me an e-mail this time saying that the contact forms here were potentially unsafe, so...it probably is RWL this time, too)
I'm angry because all the service for the hosting company shut down early today, and won't be back until Monday. Therefore, I don't get any feedback on my attempts to fix the problem until Monday.

Have a happy holidays, you've all just made mine a bit worse.

Three years...wow. Just, yeah.

Redwall: Warlords Turbo
20 of the 59 Warlords in the game are considered active.

8 Warlords have been destroyed, and 24 Warlords have been abandoned.
3 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 0 Warlord protectorates, and 1 active Clans.

1. Blood Wake (#7)
$334,473,934 with 42,259 Acres

2. .Peace. .Alliance. (#36)
$215,466,289 with 25,514 Acres

3. Ancient Magicks (#49)
$166,022,013 with 8,728 Acres

4. copypaste (#28)
$136,854,084 with 6,499 Acres

5. Tall Fuzzy Tree (#44)
$116,118,658 with 10,860 Acres

6. Turtle Dog (#9)
$92,304,905 with 36,637 Acres

7. shadowbugg (#18)
$87,284,659 with 19,532 Acres

8. ohmyjapan strikes back (#17)
$75,683,053 with 967 Acres

9. Kyrodo (#12)
$64,917,844 with 43,396 Acres

10. riddick (#24)
$54,797,824 with 41,427 Acres

11. The Hounds of Ulster (#50)
$53,187,146 with 22,597 Acres

12. evil wolf (#20)
$52,785,963 with 11,515 Acres

13. White Wolf (#46)
$52,004,931 with 19,279 Acres

14. yrv (#15)
$45,143,102 with 15,252 Acres

15. Blaster (#8)
$31,854,802 with 8,506 Acres

Most Rats
.Peace. .Alliance. (#36)
19,773,737 Rats

Most Weasels
Blood Wake (#7)
15,012,785 Weasels

Most Stoats
.Peace. .Alliance. (#36)
16,024,294 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Blood Wake (#7)
15,374,867 Skiffs

Most Food
copypaste (#28)
5,394,283,470 Food

Most Cash
Blaster (#8)
33,555,662,894 Cash

Most Leaders
.Peace. .Alliance. (#36)
4,996,017 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Tall Fuzzy Tree (#44)
9,542,145 Loyalty

Most Land
Kyrodo (#12)
43,396 Land

Most Total Offenses
yrv (#15)
2,372 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
riddick (#24)
1,655 Total Defenses

Next round: Current Setup + 2% Defensive Bonus / Clan Member

::meekly:: I forgot to get the Top Warlords before I reset. Yeek;
Warlord Land Networth
>    Blood Wake (#6)     30,245     $263,330,152
>    Redemption (#11)    29,287    $108,365,057
>    ohmyjapan (#28)    14,917    $103,257,635
>    Alztec (#34)    13,322    $98,167,892
>    Turtle Dog (#37)    9,373    $71,953,745
>    Ymmit (#17)    2,424    $66,780,472
>    Sonoras (#27)    1,878    $65,598,534
>    *_* (#18)    17,018    $58,144,633
>    yrv (#42)    37,940    $57,768,567
>    Kyrodo (#50)    36,389    $47,937,426
>    deadrineep (#54)    17,980    $37,797,445
>    6(sic)6 (#47)    1,384    $31,779,679
>    evil wolf (#16)    9,973    $29,501,078
>    Peace Alliance (#32)    30,235    $28,657,483
>    TIB (#33)    10,210    $27,328,306
>    281 (330) 8004 (#62)    29,311    $17,268,798
>    The Freed Race (#59)    12,402    $17,247,378
>    !!!BoooooNaNa!!! (#49)    3,616    $11,306,040
>    Keri and Kandi UNITED (#63)    9,784    $8,756,585
>    Silent Killers (#19)    5,685    $7,087,237
>    L.L. Scouting (#25)    4,606    $5,274,495
>    Eye''s of the Serpent (#60)    7,001    $4,881,264
>    Un Sacapuntas (#67)    3,507    $4,681,667
>    barkclaw2 (#8)    3,479    $4,255,689
>    utopia (#41)    3,931    $3,765,978
>    The Great Cheese (#61)    1,175    $747,675
>    Lord Angry-penguin (#58)    1,099    $660,703
>    Moonstriker (#57)    250    $147,410

I use firefox still on my Mac Mini, though Safari runs more natively (it's cocoa. Or I have a version of the WebKit renderer that's Cocoa. Really great graphics fun on that) - mostly for the extensions that make it invaluable when I'm just lazily browsing, or stuff like Web Developer which saves me lots of trouble when I'm coding and developing.

I don't do most of my browsing on the windows machine - only sites that I make or ones that I trust, so I don't have very big issues with adware...but Spybot and AdWare did help when I was doing a lot of browsing on it. Windows machines...I don't know. I don't think Microsoft wanted to design an operating system that needs a clean wipe every year or two, but they did, and maybe they should concentrate on making that easier, so their machines last longer and you loose less data.

Get mouse gestures. Seriously, it makes it so much better. It's annoying for me to use any other browser, because they don't have my mouse gestures (and I have a lot of browsers installed on my computers)