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slog
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This whole episode sums up Dominion quite nicely. Whatever happened to that "excellence" that CCP was going on about?
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eldaec
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I doubt this was a bug.
Hitting a some alliances but not others? Doesn't look likely.
Betting on :lolgoons:.
Also as Endie mentions, with the degree of defender's advantage in dominion (no systems I'm aware of have fallen other than to overwhelming odds or chronic incompetence), this isn't going to be easily reversed.
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« Last Edit: January 26, 2010, 07:36:11 AM by eldaec »
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Thrawn
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I think it would be a fantastic slap in the face to Molle if Goons lose a lot of Sov to a bug/messup/idiocy whatever and still manage to defend Delve and push IT around.
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setar
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Courtesy of SHC: Someone posted this in alliance chat earlier.
Lead GM Grimmi here. We have investigated this matter very carefully and verified that no bug or server error was responsible for the loss of sovereignty in all those systems. Normal game mechanics were functioning perfectly as designed and therefore we will not be taking any action in this matter. I have to admit, with any other alliance (PL excluded) I'd feel very bad about this. Not in this case, though.
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setar
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Description on CAOD fits with the recent stories here about a certain lack of leadership: Payments / bills to cover the sov for Goons was left in the WRONG wallet without automatic payment selected, apparently after the recent 49- drama Goon leaders decided to put majority of the master wallet ISK into cap replacements and other sov related stuff, they assumed the Bill requirements WAS once every 28 days which is pretty stupid if you ask me since it SHOWS bills,..
Most of the directors of GoonSwarm who had access to the wallets didnt bother managing their alliance and instead when the timer was up the ISK that remained only covered a fraction of the sovereignty,..
In other words, Goons fail
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Thrawn
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While I have no doubt that Goons are capable of a screw up on that scale, how does that at all explain reports that this happened to multiple alliances across 0.0?
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eldaec
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While I have no doubt that Goons are capable of a screw up on that scale, how does that at all explain reports that this happened to multiple alliances across 0.0?
Auto payment has only existed for 2 cycles, all the CCP seeded TCUs were due today, and by multiple alliances across 0.0, people actually mean Goons, xDeathx, and a few alliances who probably don't know wtf.
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Jayce
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Clearly, the combined directorate of six alliances, not on the same side, managed to make the same mistake on the same day. That's a lot more likely than an entire rewrite of the sov system having any bugs.
I mean, everything has been bug-free and stable up to this point in the expansion, right?
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lac
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So goons did clean out the relevant wallet - contrary to earlier statements. Ouch.
Apparently other alliances had too little cash in their sov wallets too but not on that big a scale.
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setar
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Unclear, Thrawn. It was the regular billing cycle; in some cases (such as AAA C) this was deliberate as they did not want to pay for that one system that lost Sov, in other cases (WI) it might have been on purpose as well (why pay for Sov when you evacuated the region?). Haven't heard back from the Russians yet, but I admit the chances of 2-3 alliances screwing up the payment cycle at the same time sounds odd.
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Sir T
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Description on CAOD fits with the recent stories here about a certain lack of leadership: Goons could be kicking out IT at this point and CAOD posters would still find a way to say "Goons Fail" HTH "apparently after the recent 49- drama Goon leaders decided to put majority of the master wallet ISK into cap replacements and other sov related stuff," And that's wrong. People have been bitching for the past week that a months worth of cap losses haven't been reimbursed yet. No what happened here (according to a noted trollster on goon forums) is that All CCP said was that the money has to be in the executor corp wallet for the Sov bills, but they never specified it had to be the master wallet. And apparently their code doesn't know how to look in the wallet as a whole. And this seems to have effected TCUs that were seeded by CCP itself. PLUS if it was a bill failure then how come none of the directors or those with access got warning mails? And why did sov drop at 04:00 am all over the place rather than downtime? My vote is CCP BUG.
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« Last Edit: January 26, 2010, 08:36:53 AM by Sir T »
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eldaec
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Clearly, the combined directorate of six alliances, not on the same side, managed to make the same mistake on the same day. That's a lot more likely than an entire rewrite of the sov system having any bugs.
It's not 'the same mistake on the same day' it's that they didn't get around to the monthly house keeping task before time ran out. And as Setar mentions, a lot of the sov drops (I expect some of the goon systems as well) are actually concious decisions not to bother holding specific non-station systems, everyone is rationalising sov in that way. Obviously this wouldn't apply to NOL. And yes, I'd say its much more likely than this being the result of a bug.
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Meester
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Its an NC conspiracy to take Fountain! IT capfleet in Delve means no IT capfleet in Fountain. It all makes sense now
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eldaec
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No what happened here (according to a noted trollster on goon forums) is that All CCP said was that the money has to be in the executor corp wallet for the Sov bills, but they never specified it had to be the master wallet. And apparently their code doesn't know how to look in the wallet as a whole.
Hmmm, what are the rules for alliance bill payment? If alliance fees are taken from any division then I take your point, but I doubt that they are.
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Endie
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OK I am pretty convinced that retardation on the part of our senior directorate at the very least played a large part in this.
Here is an ironic truth: if Molle and AAA hadn't launched their invasion two weeks ago nobody would have moved their stuff to NPC Delve and we'd all be fucked right now. As it is, with my capitals in NPC stations with cloning services, I'm pretty relaxed.
At times like this, it really helps to be the sort of person who plays Eve for the grand, dramatic stories, because I'm hella intrigued to see what happens next. Will we hold on? Have we lost too many key nodes to survive? What would we do if we lose Delve?
I do feel bad for Rebellion, Pulsar and ZAF, though, who our incompetence may have fucked. Each of them deserves better.
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Numtini
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At times like this, it really helps to be the sort of person who plays Eve for the grand, dramatic stories, because I'm hella intrigued to see what happens next. Will we hold on? Have we lost too many key nodes to survive? What would we do if we lose Delve? This. If anything has sold me on Eve it's this kind of stuff.
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setar
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Detailed description of what went wrong: Here's what happened: all of the systems that were lost were the ones with TCUs that were seeded by CCP. Their sov bills all came in at once - today. So how did we lose our space? The same way xdeathx now confirms that he lost his sov. He, too, set auto bill pay up like we did. However, he fucked up and had the alliance's money in the wrong wallet division. Since the bills could not be paid, the TCUs all unanchored at the same time.
His TCUs all unanchored at the same time as ours. This isn't a coincidence. Since his TCUs and our TCUs were all seeded by CCP at the same time, they all unanchored at the same time as the bill became overdue. We had billions of isk in the wallet, but the autopay thing defaults to the master wallet. What probably happened is the corp's sov isk was placed in a wallet divison that would allow a few directors to have access without giving them the whole farm, but the bill pay system was set to the master wallet (by default). So it attempted to pay from the wrong division, failed, and unanchored our TCUs.
This can't be 100% confirmed until one of the few directors who have full access check (they're all on vacation). But we can probably assume that the same thing that happened to xdeathx happened to us. I don't think we're so special as to have our very own bug.
So, the bad news: We lost NOL, F-T, I1Y, 1-s, and a few stations in querious. Also our JB system is dead and most of our important jammers are gone. Years of hard work literally ruined by a failure to check a box.
The good news:
(5:25:38 AM) dabigredboat: if this doesn't roll back ill be quiting (5:25:41 AM) dabigredboat: 99% sure (5:26:14 AM) dabigredboat: goons dont care about eve (5:26:18 AM) dabigredboat: they care about themselves (5:26:24 AM) dabigredboat: or making bad posts
Good night, and good luck.
Edit2: We've recovered 4 out of 15 stations that we lost sov in.
As well as: at 04:06 eve our batch of Sov bills came due to be paid automatically from the Master Wallet. Master Wallet had ~282m in it at the time and first bill(but QY6) was paid leaving ~30.5m in the wallet at which point the rest bounced and CCP is a harsh fucking mistress. at 04:18 it looks like someone went 'oh shit' and dumped a bunch of isk into the wallet but i guess by that time it didn't matter.
edit: we almost lost 49- to this on the 25th except ratters kept enough isk flowing into the wallet for the bill to clear And I guess you can read Mittani's follow-up for yourself.
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I wish I had some fuckin fuel for my Thanatos :(
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setar
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And someone give Karttoon a medal: name='karttoon' date='30 November 2009 - 06:43 PM' timestamp='1259628180' post='5869230'
Just sit back, panic, and watch us miss-click something important and lose all of our space somehow. Note the timestamp.
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slog
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I hear Jita is sunny this time of year.
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Phildo
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On a serious note (stop shitting up the War thread), I do think it's crap that there isn't a grace period of at least a few hours. POS give you a 24 hour warning before going offline, why not the TCU?
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bhodi
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The welp to end all welps!
I think it's pretty low form and bad planning of CCP, but hey - par for the course.
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Simond
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On a serious note (stop shitting up the War thread), I do think it's crap that there isn't a grace period of at least a few hours. POS give you a 24 hour warning before going offline, why not the TCU? There is a warning.
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Sir Molle posting on CAOD is not a warning in my book.
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Fordel
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So Goons "Delve'd" themselves in the end?
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Endie
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Yeah there are 48 hours of warnings I believe. Two of the three people with the rights to see them were on holiday, the other one got back the day before and clearly didn't feel like checking his mail.
Also, Setar, the big long "how it happened" post is from Bu Jinkan and not Mittens. As such it needs to be read critically as his view of what Goonswarm should do and should have done is idiosyncratic. I agree with him in places, but he's a polemicist, not a reporter.
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From the Devblog CCP Chronotis http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=711. Any current or future bills which you have setup to be automatically paid will then appear in the Automatically Paid tab as opposed to the regular Payable tab you are used to. In there you can see which are queued for payment and opt to manually pay them anyway if you desire.
The new system will try to pay the bill two days before the due date and then every four hours after this point. A notification mail will be sent to the accountants in the corp that you do not have the funds available to make payment with each failed payment attempt so that you have a chance to transfer money between divisions for example in time So that hapened? And the most interesting question to me is, what's the over/under on the CCP annnouncement that they intend to revert R64 income to pre-Dominion levels
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Endie
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We're having a lovely revolution right now. Also, DBRB is killing IT fleets and has moved onto picking off the odd cap. I'm stuck listening in because I'm stuck at a safe in NOL.
That said, being stuck one jump from NPC space with multiple safespots made in your only expensive ship that you've not yet moved to NPC space is a pretty relaxing way to face losing space.
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Endie
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From the Devblog CCP Chronotis http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=711. Any current or future bills which you have setup to be automatically paid will then appear in the Automatically Paid tab as opposed to the regular Payable tab you are used to. In there you can see which are queued for payment and opt to manually pay them anyway if you desire.
The new system will try to pay the bill two days before the due date and then every four hours after this point. A notification mail will be sent to the accountants in the corp that you do not have the funds available to make payment with each failed payment attempt so that you have a chance to transfer money between divisions for example in time So that hapened? And the most interesting question to me is, what's the over/under on the CCP annnouncement that they intend to revert R64 income to pre-Dominion levels What happened is that the three people who could get those warnings, including the person whose job it was to deal with them, were all away on holiday.
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Trouble
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Somebody theorized that there may not have been any notices at all. There was enough to pay for ONE thing, so it just did the check on that one price each time, instead of the collective cost. Makes sense. Anyone know if it works that way?
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Ingmar
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This is incredibly entertaining. A+ goons.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Endie
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No doubt you'll hear about this via other spy-ridden channels: Goonswarm are going to Syndicate.
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Simond
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War. War never changes.
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