vinylweatherman,
Yes this was 3 different providers and yes, the boot out was simultaneous. I said, while on the phone that my reels were in the "spin for ever mode" to which my brother and sister said they had the same thing. Then...poof...back to the lobby with no tournaments listed under "my tournaments" for all of us.
The worst part is that the timer must be somewhere local on the machine as it keeps counting even when you can't play.
I will never pay to get into any tournament until this is fixed.
C
This would be the BEST part
Sadly, not entirely true, since every time you receive a result, the timer receives it's correct value from the server. I have seen this, it will sometimes "steal a second" if you watch it closely enough.
After my previous contribution, I went to play my free tournaments at Royal Vegas. I got the reels lagging, where all of a sudden they start taking 5-8 seconds to receive the result from the server, and keep doing this WITHOUT FAIL until you stop pressing "spin" and just sit there for 5-10 seconds, whereupon the fault magically clears on the FIRST SPIN afterwards.
There is something VERY FISHY about all of this - these tournaments look rigged to me, since NONE of this should be happening, since any effects due to connection problems should be random in nature. I have nearly always found a clear causal relationship between my actions, and most problems magically curing themselves (apart from the complete boot out).
The silence from MGS is DEAFENING. Maybe these "problems" are SUPPOSED to happen, so of course they can't go on record and say this, but they can't fix it either.
I remind you all that these problems SUDDENLY started happening over one weekend, when there was a rather curious lobby update. No new games, but the lobby first DELETED each and every tournament game, and then started to download them again - I WATCHED IT HAPPEN!!!!
I started the casino, and it did the characteristic "double launch". THis means update time, yet there was NOTHING due
It was busy with something, so quickly went through all the categories, and it was when I reached tournaments that I saw them all greyed out, foloweed by the line advancing as the games were downloaded all over again. This was at a casino where I had previously been playing the tournaments, so I knew full well it was a delete and update, and not simply the introduction of tournaments for the first time. Following this, there was uproar on the forums, the new update was somehow screwed up, and so many players just couldn't register for the weekender that they posponed the close for two days. I played, and THAT was when I first noticed what is all too common today - reels lagging 5-8 seconds all of a sudden, and not getting back into their stride unless I stopped for a 5-10 second rest, which miraculously fixed it. The other problems were also markedly more common after this update, and over time have just grown worse. It does not appear to be related to the number of players playing either, as there are a few times when relatively few tournaments are "in play", and there simplky cannot be more than a few hundred players REGISTERED in a "now playing" tournament, so probably only a few dozen or less actually playing - yet the problems and laggy reels are STILL EVIDENT - WTF kind of server or connection cannot cope with this tiny load when it is designed for peak loads of many THOUSANDS of players.