the game website

Its been working since about 7/8ish last night (UK time) for me anyway

should be available on http://109.104.88.11 even if it's not available at fantasy.road.cc - had to switch back to the old server and that takes time to propagate

Thanks for the ling - too late for the Giro sadly

Arrg losing points here !!

Been working since about 9:30 last night but put in my Giro transfers then rather than waiting. Luckily I did my TOC transfers that morning as I missed the deadline for the first Stage myself and didn't want to do it again.

Just an observation. Wouldn't it have been wiser to switch servers when the Giro and Tour of Cali had finished rather than doing it mid way through? The site may have been a bit slow but it always worked before.

Non sequitur. Have introduced a greek friend to road.cc Expect lots of hits in Athens in future!

Does anyone have any idea when the game will be up and running again? Website has been unresponsive all day.

Its working for me....

Do you have a link?

And I got slated the other day for suggesting that it was a bad move to introduce Premium midway through the season...Now do you see my point.....

@stumps: I have visions of gkam in front of comprehensive spreadsheets, rider profiles, their training programmes, stated goals for the season, stage profiles, twitter feeds galore and perhaps a crystal ball!

Actually, I'm happy with my team for tonight. Can I still get the points and roll transfers on to tomorrow.

That's the problem with neutralising the stage. Some people will have done their transfers (me), some people won't (they'll be hopping mad), whilst others won't want to have done any transfers (unusual considering tonight's stage I admit).

I suggest prizes for everyone?

Latest from twitter on the road.cc site about coming back on line:

"No, sorry sitting here listening to 'hold music' while the server farm engineer kicks the box… well, I hope he's kicking it"

That was about 15 mins ago......

Why allow transfers anyway? Make a team and stick with it......

Hi all,

Yes, as you've probably all noticed by now the game server is down - we're trying to find out why and get it back up. The new server had been working fine which is why we decided to make the switch over today - to increase the speed of the game.

There is an engineer looking at it now and as a contingency we are also seeing if we can switch back to the old, slow, not falling over server.

In the meantime we realise that some of you need to make your ATOC stage 6 transfers. So I'm starting an ATOC Stage 6 Transfers thread - if you post your transfers on to that Dave will update the game accordingly.

Trouble is, I can't post my transfers without seeing the game - current team, future team? I dunno who's even in there never mind who I'd like to be in there. And the stage has been running for 60-odd km's by now so we all know who's in the break which is a bit tough on anyone who has already made their transfers.

I would suggest - wind all teams back to end of yesterdays stage. Nullify todays stage and give everybody 4 transfers for tomorrows stage.

Yeah offering transfers now is a bit late, With the race underway and not knowing my full team, then i can't decide who i want to switch

Quote:

perhaps a crystal ball!

If they persuaded you those work, they saw you coming

Just a plea for those of us playing by purest rule to have today's point - can understand re-setting teams and nullifying point for those making transfers to make things fair for them, but it would be unfair on purists who lose a more hilly stage.

Seems to be back up and running

UPDATE: We've stuck the game on the old server. Dave has extended the ATOC stage 6 transfer deadline by an hour. So you should be able to make your transfers.

Hope that helps

Seems to be back on the older server

We've switched back to the old server.

you should be able to see the site soon, if you can't wait you can go to http://109.104.88.11

I've extended the transfer window for an hour so's people can get transfers in. i'm aware that it's not ideal but the only ideal scenario is the one where the server hasn't fallen over. if people miss this, we can sort out their transfers if they've commented above

stevespro wrote:

And I got slated the other day for suggesting that it was a bad move to introduce Premium midway through the season...Now do you see my point...

not really. what's a brand new server irreperably falling over after a few hours online got to do with the decision to charge for premium? We would have had to move the server anyway. what happened to the server is unclear; there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it and so we couldn't have anticipated it would fail in this way, it's not something the tech guys at the hosting company have ever seen before so far as i can tell.

right, now the giro scores

Always impressed with people who can break servers in new and interesting ways

Transfers done but I felt under pressure - just have to hope I've done OK

Cheers,
Simon

Good job...now, what were stage 13 scores then ?