Problem to connect to the campain server

BalkanTyp · Post by **BalkanTyp** » March 23rd, 2006, 6:19 pm

I have a problem since i downloaded 1.1.2 i cant connect to the campain server-. does anybody have the same problem and where can i else download some campains because i want to play some orc campains =))

toms · Post by **toms** » March 23rd, 2006, 6:28 pm

You can also download them here.

scott · Post by **scott** » March 23rd, 2006, 7:01 pm

toms wrote:You can also download them here.

But that brings you to the 1.0 campaign server. If you're desperate, you can try to use the perl modules and the correct port number (I think it's 15003) to make your own http access. http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6826

fox · Post by **fox** » April 18th, 2006, 4:55 pm

perl modules?

Any further info on that?

toms · Post by **toms** » April 18th, 2006, 5:44 pm

The link...

allefant · Post by **allefant** » April 18th, 2006, 6:21 pm

CampGen also allows downloading campaigns from port 15003

But chances are, if wesnoth itself can't connect, it can't either.

Post by **freim** » April 18th, 2006, 6:40 pm

I just tried connecting to both campaign servers and they work just fine here.

Post by **Soliton** » April 18th, 2006, 6:46 pm

Bruno Wolff set up a page for the development campaignd as well now: http://wolff.to/campaigns/dev/.

Post by **bruno** » April 20th, 2006, 4:04 am

Some further notes on this.
The web server needs to be able to contact the campaign server in order to check if cached campaigns are up to date. When one of the campaign servers is down (and the 1.0 server has been hanging a lot lately) you won't be able to fetch campaigns.
There are also two campaigns that are so large that the web server times out before the cgi script can update the cache. I have to manually load these when I notice updates for them. At some point I will see if I can get the perl modules to be reasonably memory efficient so this doesn't happen any more.

szopen · Post by **szopen** » April 20th, 2006, 10:32 am

bruno wrote: There are also two campaigns that are so large that the web server times out before the cgi script can update the cache.

Ranger M · Post by **Ranger M** » April 20th, 2006, 11:40 am

szopen wrote:
bruno wrote: There are also two campaigns that are so large that the web server times out before the cgi script can update the cache.

(I'll be reducing mine in size next release after a clean up.)

szopen · Post by **szopen** » April 20th, 2006, 12:19 pm

ANO will be temporarily a little bit reduced in size in 0.7.3a (by some 60-80k), but the size will probably then grow again

Post by **turin** » April 20th, 2006, 12:24 pm

Ranger M wrote: (I'll be reducing mine in size next release after a clean up.)

Why don't you 1. not include all of the new units from the Imperial Era, and 2. list the Imperial Era as a dependency?

In the next version of the Imperial Era, all you are going to have to do is put

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#ifdef CAMPAIGN_NAME
#define IMPERIAL_ERA
#enddef
#endif

And, if they have the Imperial Era downloaded, it will activate those units. Would probably reduce the size at least a megabyte...

szopen · Post by **szopen** » April 20th, 2006, 12:26 pm

Turin, great idea. This is the same as in my campaign. However, the problem will be with some very few people, who will then claim that our campaigns are broken ...

And then, Imperial Era units IIRC stats are a bit different from what I use in ANO (I use outdated version). This could change the carefully crafted balance of some scenarios.

Post by **turin** » April 20th, 2006, 12:37 pm

szopen wrote:Turin, great idea. This is the same as in my campaign. However, the problem will be with some very few people, who will then claim that our campaigns are broken ...

I think that if you put at the very beginning in a story tag the message "YOU NEED THE IMPERIAL ERA TO PLAY THIS" (similar to how UTBS and SE have messages telling the player that the campaigns are abnormal in some way), people will listen... or at least most of them.

szopen wrote:And then, Imperial Era units IIRC stats are a bit different from what I use in ANO (I use outdated version). This could change the carefully crafted balance of some scenarios.

Hm... the only units you use from the IE are the Aragwaithi, right? Or do you use some of the others as well?