@lafayette i noticed that 🙂

A quick update regarding 32 bit installers - looks like it is no longer even an option for us. Not even a choice now whether to include it or not.

Details:
I'm running some updates, and ran across our notes for how to bundle the 32 bit Java version for windows-32 bit installers: https://github.com/triplea-game/assets

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Basically, download the 32 bit JDK from some website (https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html) and do some re-packaging stuff. That website has JDKs only up to Java 16.

So.. any next release would be on Java 17 or Java 21. It looks like a 32 bit installer is no longer even an option for us (unless someone can find a 32 bit JDK21 somewhere; I kinda suspect such a thing may not even exist now).

@lafayette said in Personal Status Update - I was MIA doing hurricane relief work. Less MIA now. (But still MIA!):

Not all bad news, but mostly bad news, lol = D

heh heh Happy Thoughts now 🙂 Plenty of good things happening too 🙂

@rambo919
Do the maps that you downloaded recently have a duplicate folder name?
As there was a bug in a recent 2.7

If so then delete the recent maps with the duplicate folder names.
Download the latest 2.7
Redownload the maps again and try in 2.5

And to all a good time!

Cheers...

@beelee thanks for the update quite the adventure already 🙂

Thanks @beelee and all for feedback & votes

I think I'll tend to agree with the majority here. Bad things happen when rushed. Perhaps the next couple months will serve as an extended testing period - a very good thing.

I reduced the number of 2.7 bot servers to two. That's a cost of $10/month and gives us 6 game instances in the meantime.

I'll spin up a 2.7 'megathread' thread & link it in the lobby. Make the testing a bit more official.

The 'EXIT_ON_GAME_END' flag is new in 2.7.
All 2.7 lobby bots have this configured.
The lobby bots are configured in a very similar way, except as a linux service (using systemctl)

The way lobby bots are installed can be reverse engineered from:

Release notes updated: https://triplea-game.org/release_notes/
Bots should be in good shape. Duplicate map problem should be largely fixed now.
No major known issues.

@ubernaut i was intrested in playing and hope to run into few friends

Hi
I know there is a small group that go way long back, so I belive that must be the one you call "the regular players" Personal I been here for +10 years and play several that been atleast that long to and several other players wery regular players. just e play the big maps (waw, nml, nwo) so maybe you distingues between map groups.
My belive is that there is a flow of come and go players and a steady group of players that stay for years. the problem in my eyes is not the walue of the site more that we are not good enough to spread the "word"
just my point 😄

@black_elk - yes, all good points. do you paint some of the miniatures as well? There seems to be a good market for that lately.

@andreas-rovere
Correct.

2.5.22294 is what most lobby players will be using, so its the best choice.

I created a forums category for the 'map admin' team

We have some first tasks up!

TWW
No Man's Land
Anniversary