Subject: Any official explanation about downtimes ?

yeah its happened a lot of people ;)

and me in the past ;)

i guess there isnt really much that can be done, unless they can fix the deadline extension idea

ferdam said something about new ddos attacks, like we had some time ago. That's all information we staff members have so far, sorry.

and what about something like this?

What would that help?

Ask google for ddos....

Sorry for my english. Official explanation from polish staff:

There are DDoS attacks on SK server. Therefore the staff recommend to placing a player up for sale with the starting price at this moment.

The staff is working on a device for an automatic change time of end of transfer if the sever wouldn't work.
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we? are you involved?

cheers for the explanation anyway..

EDIT: @loop, thats what google did to stop what it assumed as an attack on its server when the michael jackson thing happened.. (millions of people all at once wanted to confirm he's dead so googled his name)
what a ddos does, is just request info off the server continuously from thousands of computers or whatever at once (basically when computers have bad viruses they can be made to do this) ..so it overloads the server meaning everyone else cant get pages etc...

what that capta thing does, is just makes you type the charachters before you can get the info... dont know if it just limits bandwith, or if it would help if there is a massive attack on the server though :/

putting back deadlines definately needed, still wont stop downtimes..although i guess if deadlines are extended, then there is nothing to be gained from an attack on the server really so maybe those doing it will cease

correct me if im wrong,
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Administrators will not generally perform the following actions, but reserve the right in extreme cases:
- to interfere in cases of not bidding a certain players on agreed price - [normally] those are the matters of the mutual agreements between the seller and the buyer and are not supervised by Sokker staff

Maybe in extreme cases, this rule can help someone.

never saw such a rule before :O


where did you get that?

bringing that up will cause a lot of work for admins im guessing.. id say where people lost..say a few mill then i will agree it may be needed :)
iv seen complaints about 100-150k players from new teams selling for 10k... whereas players underselling by a few million i would say yeah..talk to an admin

from the rules, it was an update some time ago, afair
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Rules
2. Sokker rules
SOKKER STAFF AND PUNISHMENTS

extreme case can be counted:)
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i think my point proves his post :P

you guys do know he's being sarcastic right... german humour and all... :P
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german houmor and apology:) From Germany we got first apology from staff for downtime, a few posts ago:)
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Rules
2. Sokker rules

thanks, didn't notice that before. I agree, that could be used to remove a player after Deadline from TL, if both, seller and buyer, ask for it. But afaik the admins didn't use to do that during first attacks last year.

correct me if im wrong

This fields help in cases like michael jackson, but not against ddos.
Ddos attacks send many page requests per seconds in this case.
They could query the public forum, just the front page or any other open service on the server to cause troubles.
Even if you would put this box !before! every Sokker page, sending back and calculating that number thingy would even more overload it because the reply is in some cases already bigger than what you get from a normal sokker page.
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why does google implement it so? or should i ask them :P

i guess this topic has its answer anyway though...

ddos attack..

and the deadline exension part of the game is being worked on.

thats all we need to know :)