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Hi Stef,

I'm a little concerned that there is no fallback and, apparently, nothing monitoring the Websocket server and paging anyone, etc. Now, that might be too much to ask for a game that's costing a limited number of people $5/month. I was surprised that there were not _more_ messages about that failure. Maybe this isn't really a going concern?

It appears that the game is down for everyone tonight.

If anyone's on duty at Shuffle-IT tonight, they have their hands full. But the absence of a message makes me think there's nobody home. The websocket server that coordinates the game seems to be down, and although the program has told me it's playing through various Amamazon Web Services sites, it's not falling back to one tonight.

I downloaded the Android version from Temple Gates Games. They have only implemented 4 extension decks, and you have to purchase each one, or play with the base deck.

That last address is in Amazon Web Services, so naively I guess there's something wrong with your AWS server tonight.

Traceroute says I'm getting three hops out of Comcast's network and not reaching the host.

traceroute to metaserver-new.dominion-online.com (54.212.185.49), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  OpenWrt.lan (192.168.1.1)  10.283 ms  10.575 ms  10.555 ms
 2  192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)  10.505 ms  10.486 ms  10.824 ms
 3  96.120.95.1 (96.120.95.1)  18.794 ms  19.126 ms  20.747 ms
 4  po-307-1239-rur101.pinole.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.85.191.205)  19.081 ms  19.635 ms  20.296 ms
 5  be-224-rar01.pinole.ca.sfba.comcast.net (162.151.78.185)  31.160 ms  31.679 ms  31.660 ms
 6  be-298-ar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net (162.151.86.57)  31.640 ms  23.653 ms  17.262 ms
 7  be-36341-cs04.sunnyvale.ca.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.41.77)  29.066 ms be-36321-cs02.sunnyvale.ca.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.41.69)  29.055 ms be-36331-cs03.sunnyvale.ca.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.41.73)  29.037 ms
 8  be-3211-pe11.529bryant.ca.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.33.86)  29.023 ms  29.005 ms be-3111-pe11.529bryant.ca.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.33.82)  24.781 ms
 9  66.208.232.62 (66.208.232.62)  26.237 ms 50.242.150.122 (50.242.150.122)  47.548 ms 66.208.232.58 (66.208.232.58)  26.197 ms
10  52.93.141.223 (52.93.141.223)  58.306 ms 52.93.141.155 (52.93.141.155)  58.335 ms 52.93.141.133 (52.93.141.133)  26.622 ms
11  54.240.243.17 (54.240.243.17)  26.610 ms 150.222.111.5 (150.222.111.5)  26.117 ms 54.240.243.81 (54.240.243.81)  36.892 ms
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So tonight, it's the Websocket server not answering. On the JavaScript console, I see:

connection.js:14 WebSocket connection to 'wss://metaserver-new.dominion-online.com/'; failed
failed:
(stack dump)
165: Metaserver connection error (id: 0, currentId: 0). Event {isTrusted: true, type: 'error', target: WebSocket, currentTarget: WebSocket, eventPhase: 2, ...}isTrusted: truebubbles: falsecancelBubble: falsecancelable: falsecomposed: falsecurrentTarget: WebSocket {url: 'wss://metaserver-new.dominion-online.com/';, readyState: 3, bufferedAmount: 0, onopen: ƒ, onerror: ƒ, ...}defaultPrevented: falseeventPhase: 0returnValue: truesrcElement: WebSocket {url: 'wss://metaserver-new.dominion-online.com/';, readyState: 3, bufferedAmount: 0, onopen: ƒ, onerror: ƒ, ...}target: WebSocket {url: 'wss://metaserver-new.dominion-online.com/';, readyState: 3, bufferedAmount: 0, onopen: ƒ, onerror: ƒ, ...}timeStamp: 844.6999999992549type: "error"[[Prototype]]: Event
raven-3.7.0.min.js:49

My access to other web sites is fast as ever. Dominion can take a minute just to load the game, and then fails to load images, leading to a partial user interface throughout the game, or just loads images really slowly. Often it disconnects, and then seems to chide me, offering the chance to disconnect and resign, as if its problems were my fault.

Hi,

Yesterday Dominion.games started turning off "rated game" if Colonies or Shelters was set to Yes. It seems to insist that they be set to random to hold a rated game.

To me this is a strong disincentive to play rated games, and once no longer playing rated games, one must wonder why one is playing Dominion at all or paying monthly for additional decks.

It also seems a bit backwards. It might be better to move Colony and the three Shelter cards from Dark Ages and Prosperity to the base set in the case of rated games.

Perhaps this is thought to make rating more fair. But this might be ineffective if rated games are still played with different extensions.

    Thanks

    Bruce