Cantr II Discussion Forum

The slowness of Cantr is beginning to drive me crazy. Should I just shut up and send in money?

Just a thought, but the last time it was so very slow was when daily new minutes was ploughing its way through peak time, exactly like now. In other words, the last Europeans would still be awake late at night, East Coast would be maybe in early evening, Central US would be wide awake and Pacific would be coming online too.

Just a coincidence? Some other explanation?

What if new minutes were fixed somewhere out over the Pacific Ocean. In other words 2 am Pacific time. Then pretty much everyone would get their new minutes at the start of their day and not all bunch up like this in a "slowness wave".

[Added in edit: Hmm, it cannot just be that. As of Thursday evening I still can't play. Well... Fran's food distribution to 12+ people in 3 different buildings would take more than 200 minutes, I reckon ]

It has been horribly slow for the last 20 hours.

Still is.....

Yup, I can't load the char page. I hope my boys and girls are doing well though, well....I know they are..

Send the money to me!

Nooooooooo,

This morning it was just slow, now it's terminal, I can't even log in cos it keeps timing out on me

Me neither

I just hope people won't be mad because I took up an envelope of maps and didn't succeed in dropping it

Usually though it's better in the late afternoon (for me), before the time is resetted. That's in ~3 hours.

Yeah... sometimes it claims its done loading even though its only halfway. It's a little weird.

Any word from upstairs on when the server change is? Maybe thats whats going on...

Right now - as I post this - it seems a little bit better. I've picked up some possible changes. If true, they would surely indicate the program had been recompiled in a new environment... maybe(?) For example, Nossémma has become Noss?mma. That wasn't the case two days ago, else I would have noticed it.

But then I'm no expert on such matters. Last time I had anything to do with programmers, computers were things that lived in the basement and the language was COBOL.

At he moment it seems to be doing slightly better, but it is 5 am where I am, so maybe it is just a low volume of people trying to play at the moment??


((edit stupid type - O's)

I get real tempted to just say the hell with it and hit the big X button, but I run out of patience before that page loads and just close the game. This game used to be fun and interesting, now it's become a test of wills.

we should at least get more minutes for this slowness... last night it took me around 40 minutes to load one page and now i have no minutes. i didnt even get to do anything but have one character say one thing and check on several other chars before all 200 mins were completely gone. im not mad because of the slowlness, just dissapointed that I couldnt do anything with my chars. I didnt mind it all that much, just wish i could get more mins to get my chars to do stuff.

I suggest just putting the game down and doing something else in the meanwhile.

For example, in the Cantr sense, I've been working on some visual maps.

It happens every now and then when the game isn't acting up to speed.