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technical difficulties, please stand by

After falling behind on my own, I was beset by technical difficulties and ended up having to restore stuff from backup. I hate that. I follow safe practices so I didn’t lose work, only time and motivation, but I still hate it. Now I feel Hopelessly Far Behind.

In other news, when Steamhammer was pushed down the ranking by McRave and Microwave, suddenly Steamhammer got many fewer games on the server. Apparently the second string is not nearly as interesting to vote for, or maybe people got bored since it has been over a month since the last update. Either way, it is kind of relaxing.

Nobody objected to my idea of uploading test versions to SSCAIT without doing the extra testing and documentation work of a proper release. I think I’ll add another wrinkle. Tomorrow I’ll upload Randomhammer only, not Steamhammer zerg, in the almost-ready development version. I figure that that way I can get it tested and I won’t be overwhelmed with games to watch, so I’ll get on faster with the last half-dozen items I have planned. We’ll see how it goes.

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PurpleWaveJadien on :

Losing your dev environment is frustrating. I had a hard drive crash last year that only cost me a day or two, but setting everything up again is a pain.

MicroDK on :

Being higher on the rank does not mean that your bot automatically get more matches. Microwave has played way fewer matches than normal this weekend. Steamhammer still had a lot of matches. I think that developers vote for the matchups they want to test and other people just want to watch Iron and krasi0.

krasi0 on :

Voting for Iron *and* krasi0 is fine, OTOH Iron *VS* krasi0 is not :P

Jay Scott on :

I have gone so far as to stop following Iron-Steamhammer and Krasi0-Steamhammer games, because there are so many and I think I know the lessons. They have grown boring. I still watch all other Steamhammer and Randomhammer games.

Jay Scott on :

Iron and Krasi0 dominate in popularity, it does seem. But in this version, Steamhammer has gotten 3 times as many games as Randomhammer, about 520 versus 175 (the mini-tournaments account for around 75 games of the difference). Meanwhile, when I put in a vote, it is usually for a bot which hasn’t had a game all day....

MicroDK on :

Sad to hear about your development environment. I happens to all now and then. Some times backups are really useful. ;)

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