"Tick" timings

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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Rebma » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:50 am

Doug R. wrote:Tick timings appear to be approximately 20 seconds fast.


I have to resist the urge to say "Aww, muffin".

Doesn't joo's site have a ±5 minutes disclaimer :P
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby EchoMan » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:32 am

20 seconds are with in the +- 5 minute disclaimer, which is dependant on script running time. Each server script need between 15 seconds and 5 minutes (worst case) to complete, and when "your" tick appears within that timeframe is impossible to say.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:16 am

Doug R. wrote:Tick timings appear to be approximately 20 seconds fast.

I'm quite relieved to hear that they're so accurate. If you noticed that they're consistently 20 seconds "fast," though, then they could be adjusted.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Doug R. » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:57 am

Ah. I never saw the disclaimer, I just downloaded the software from his link. Nevermind then. :oops:
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Doug R. » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:32 pm

Starvation is off by...3 hours slow. They just happened at 6:30, and it's now 7:4 so that's 10 cantr mins = 50 real mins + 2:10 on the tick timer = 3 hours off.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:49 pm

You saw someone starving to death at 6:30?
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Doug R. » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:51 pm

3056-6.30: You see xxx die.
This body seems to be at most half a year old. The body shows clear signs of starvation.


I knew it was slow when I first installed it, but I wasn't sure how slow.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:52 pm

Right. I had that down as 7:30 for some reason.

(Fixed)
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby EchoMan » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:10 am

After the reboot today They are delayed 11 (Cantr-)minutes.

Sailing: x.18
Land travel: x.23
Projects: x.29-30

These are confirmed so far.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby Snickie » Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:02 pm

Eating is at 5:34.
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Re: "Tick" timings

Postby joo » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:23 pm

Hmm... alright, that seems vaguely consistent. Adjusted.

It seems my host is 503ing at the moment, though. If you're desperate you can also access the local copy hosted on my machine at http://joseph.uk.to/CantrTicks/,
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Re: CantrSpy 2.7

Postby Doug R. » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:22 pm

The timings seem to be way off again for some reason (perhaps due to the timeouts?)

Travel happens at :23, which is about 50 mins from now, but the timer says 1:45.
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Re: CantrSpy 2.7

Postby joo » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:51 pm

Yeah, the Cantr midnight offset had changed since I last checked it, probably due to the downtime. That should be corrected now.

One of these days I'll write a script that adjusts that automatically at regular invervals (or I could have the front-end do that with each page request, but that could lead to the Cantr frontpage being flooded with requests... and I'd have to work out the cross-domain permissions somehow).
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Re: CantrSpy 2.7

Postby EchoMan » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:55 pm

It would be better with a non-public API for those kind of things.
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Re: CantrSpy 2.7

Postby joo » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:06 pm

EchoMan wrote:It would be better with a non-public API for those kind of things.

That would be wonderful, if someone would implement it on the server-side. Do you want to?

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