Urgent admin attention required: Team selection broken all competitions

Gkam84 wrote:

The forum only ever gets used for problems and complaints, I don't see many of the over 1500 teams who were not affects coming to have their say, only the minority, who unfortunately could not get a team in.

I'm off to bed now. As I keep saying, I suggest you play as the game is at the moment, nothing is going to change before the morning and I doubt it will be neutralised at this late stage.

This.

In golfing parlance "play the ball as it lies" Serial whingers like Simon F are ruining the game,its a fun game ffs!

Joelsim wrote:

Has anyone emailed Dave? This needs to be sorted out or I can see it being a nightmare every day. The only fair way is to neutralise the stage and start afresh. An email needs to go out to all players tonight and the deadline needs to be made for as late as possible tomorrow. Or I imagine there will be 20 stages of pain.

Everyone who wants to play this competition needs to start on a level playing field due to a error on the playing system. You can't penalise those who tried for hours to get a team in and couldn't in an instance like this. If you look at all the threads there are over 100 posts on this, some of whom are very disgruntled.

i havent read this thread since i last posted, but i spoke to dave earlier and he did what he could to try and get it running again. As for anything i think he has done what he can from his location as i know he is not near the servers etc. So i cant really comment on his thoughts, but he may not have completely solved the issue, but i suspect it may be the morning before dave is back at base and doesnt want to say anything before he has completely sorted the situation. Dave will anounce something but when i dont know

Gkam84 wrote:

It is countable, Less than 2% of teams

What is that number though? The number of players who didn't get teams registered at all? If so, then it will considerably underestimate the problem. It won't include people like me who struggled through the problems to get some kind of team in, but weren't able to finesse it into the team we would have wanted. Or like those above who put a preliminary team in early and then came back to find they couldn't make changes.

This is reminiscent of last year's 'non-neutralised' snow stage. Like that, it needed a decision taken early, and once it was left too long there really was no fair way to resolve it without penalising somebody. The only fair thing that could be done now would be to neutralise stages 1 and 2 and have unlimited transfers ahead of stage 3, and that would be getting really farcical.

Sure, there's no way that server problems could have been anticipated, but what could have been anticipated was the start of one of the biggest competitions of the season, and that it would be a good idea to make sure that someone who could sort things out should be around in case some - any - problems occurred. Of people's money is going to be taken for the game, then there really should be some professionalism in the level of support available.

Personally, I don't have much right to complain, as I don't pay for premium, so I haven't really lost anything except for a bit of time and frustration that was my own choice. However, I might well have upgraded for next season, but after an incident like this that now seems unlikely, and I can certainly understand why those who have paid for the game would feel aggrieved.

Dave Atkinson wrote:

There will be some downtime to the Fantasy Cycling server at around 10am tomorrow, after the Giro stage 3 deadline

Dave - the dashboard deadline is actually 10:30. The "make transfers" page countdown is counting down to an hour later - 11:30. The later time does seem to be the one that actually acts as the deadline.

nemysys wrote:

I'm actually quite disappointed in this outcome...

I don't think anyone mentioned money... and the money really wasn't the point...

The game was unusable for approx. 20hrs before the deadline....

So no Purist team and no Italian team... so two thirds of the 'fun' has gone.

I understand that Dave & Team (and they do a great job !) have to have their days off... but this time I think it has been handled badly... with a solution that doesn't solve the problem a lot of players experienced.

No teams and a reduced number of available transfers.

It wasn't unusable, it was slow, that has been shown by the number of teams who still managed to get teams in while the server was having issues.

We don't have "days off" but if we have events to be at or rides that are scheduled, we take over scoring from each other. 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.

There was no simple solution, because the majority of teams managed to put riders into their rosters, if we removed all stage 1 points, it would penalise more than it would help out by about 98/2....with over 1600 teams in, there were less then 50 teams that I can see who were affected.

smiley_boy2501 wrote:

Just wondering about transfers. Since there is just a limited number now instead of penalties I must be 6-7 down already as I had to use 9 on stage 2 just to get riders in..... Thoughts?

you'll have automatically been given 9 extra transfers to fill your team, leaving you with 45 for the competition

I'd quite like that too.

Dave Atkinson wrote:

you should be able to pick a purist team for the rest of the giro now. you'll only get one go though, no changing it once it's done

I take it they will only get the points for the upcoming stages though? Rather than stages 1,2&3 points.

Only taking an interest as I'm planning on winning the purist comp

simon F wrote:

Out of interest, why not stage 3 points? It hasn't started yet. I don't ever expect to do well in purist comps so it's purely a query - no vested interest.

if you enter a purist team before the stage 3 deadline, you'll get stage 3 points. i stuck it back an hour to give people a chance to sneak in, as there's normally an hour buffer between the deadline and the stage start

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

Gilbert and Sullivan wrote:

Gkam84 wrote:

The forum only ever gets used for problems and complaints, I don't see many of the over 1500 teams who were not affects coming to have their say, only the minority, who unfortunately could not get a team in.

I'm off to bed now. As I keep saying, I suggest you play as the game is at the moment, nothing is going to change before the morning and I doubt it will be neutralised at this late stage.

This.

In golfing parlance "play the ball as it lies" Serial whingers like Simon F are ruining the game,its a fun game ffs!

In golfing you played the ball your self...

backflipbedlem wrote:

Dave Atkinson wrote:

you should be able to pick a purist team for the rest of the giro now. you'll only get one go though, no changing it once it's done

I take it they will only get the points for the upcoming stages though? Rather than stages 1,2&3 points.

Only taking an interest as I'm planning on winning the purist comp

yes

Dave Atkinson wrote:

if you enter a purist team before the stage 3 deadline, you'll get stage 3 points. i stuck it back an hour to give people a chance to sneak in, as there's normally an hour buffer between the deadline and the stage start

It's about 5 minutes today - see my previous post. The game clock is running on GMT

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!

What happens?