Any news on delays and so forth regarding turn processing at Ab Initio Games will appear here. If there’s nothing here, there’s probably not a delay.
Friday 25th April – back home (brain fried by motorways). Soccer Stats (which has a deadline tomorrow) has been run and sent out. I will try and get Play On done this evening, and then catch up with other games on Saturday.
Thursday 24th April – unless something crops up, I will be away until Friday 25th (and back late) so expect turns due on Thursday 24th to be run over the weekend (I’ll post updates here as I get games run). My priority will be Soccer Stats and Play On as they have deadlines the same weekend.
Processing (17th April) – As with last Thursday, all games due today have been run and sent out. I did hold off until the evening for most games to allow for any stragglers (if I knew I had a full set, I ran it first thing this morning) and hopefully not many got a nasty surprise when the turn did pop through. Please get used to Thursday deadlines as we’ll go with these at least until end of May – it does mean you now have two full weekends to get orders done before the next turn……..
Processing (10th April) – All games due today have been run and sent out. I did hold off until the evening for most games to allow for any stragglers (if I knew I had a full set, I ran it first thing this morning) and hopefully not many got a nasty surprise when the turn did pop through. Please get used to Thursday deadlines as we’ll go with these at least until end of May – it does mean you now have two full weekends to get orders done before the next turn……..
Deadlines – Following the survey, the “weekend” deadlines will be moving to Thursdays for a trial period. Please keep an eye on messages in game reports, and don’t miss your deadline as we move them forwards.
Housekeeping – Please can players make sure their credits are topped up (and that doesn’t mean continually dropping to -1) and also make sure turns are submitted on time. Both issues have slowed me down recently, and it’s always a minority (usually the same people) and right now, I really do want to be focussing my energy elsewhere. Thanks………
Hotmail Problems – I’m still having problems with outgoing emails (not game reports, only messages sent from my mailbox) reaching Hotmail users. If you haven’t set danny@pbmsports.com as a trusted email address please do so, and feel free to raise it with Hotmail if you are getting blocked. They seem to have decided to block the email address, albeit only occasionally. I can’t bug them, as they’re not my email provider. I will, if I really need to, use an alternative email address, but I’m hoping to avoid having to make that permanent.
Late Turns – can I remind people about chasing late results – I aim to get games run over the weekend, and given the number of turns this does mean spreading them out (I also need to avoid sending out too many results in a short timeframe, as they will trigger systems thinking I’m sending spam). Please wait until Monday before you chase anything “late”, and for those in more than one game, don’t assume because you’ve received one game report that I’ve sent them all.