BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

This always happens when the log gets cleared; it doesn’t bother listing players who don’t have any stats yet, or haven’t done anything.

In case people get confused, I commented for everyone. Everyone’s visible now, I think.

Thanks guys. It seemed rather odd that time, since if I recall its never cleared names before other then idled names.

We hadn’t cleared the log before, the last one stretched back Dynasties.

While we’re talking about GNDT oddies, every now and then something called MoveDaemon posts a whole bunch of comments saying “Nightly Update”. What’s up with it?

Looks like GNDTMoveUpdaterLOG.py is a script by Greth from June 2006 (!) that’s still running on the server every night, trying to update each player’s “Moves” field by writing directly to the history log. Evidently a hangover from an earlier dynasty that someone forgot to switch off.

It just needs taking out of the cronjob; I’m trying to do that now, but the server’s being extremely slow to respond.

Okay, it’s gone.