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Thread: Governor race glitch

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    Default Governor race glitch

    Many ppl think the position of governor is a bit pointless and silly, but some of us on our server have embraced the competition. There have developed two separate factions, with voting coalitions on both sides, and the race is often very very close between two representative candidates, right up to the end.

    Last night's 'end' was one of those very close finishes. The two candidates were within 5 votes of each other, switching back and forth for the lead for the last hour of the race. It was very exciting ~ WC was flying fast enough to make some dizzy lol ~ and everyone pulled out all stops to get the last votes in.

    The problem, the glitch, is in the timing. The polls were supposed to close at midnight server time. At that time one of the candidates was ahead by 5 votes. However, the polls did NOT close. They stayed open, accepting more votes for several more minutes. The candidate who won at the buzzer ended up cheated out of the governorship by a few votes.

    Any explanation? This has not happened before. Understandably, many are calling foul.

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    Maybe there was a lag?

    Statistics take 5 or so mins to be corrected so do alliance list. Maybe polling booth was the same in the situation.
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    i'm sorry to sound sour or blunt but it's evony do you expect any different? but i would agree with nutty here that it was some form of lag and that can't be helped computers (despite what people claim) are NOT perfect and to have it just be a few minutes off with a game system like this being so advanced (which it is) is not too bad ... ok so if it had stopped on time there would have been a different result and yes this next week may OR MAY NOT define the rest of the server depending on what happens ... but you have to live with it
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    Yep. I suppose. I don't imagine they expected the races to be so close, or that the final moments would matter so much to the outcome.

    Silly me, having expectations of reliability And of course, had it been 'my' side that took the win at the end I would not necessarily have brought it up lol

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    yep 'tis the truth with most things. Those who don't win usually make more of an issue (not trying to say you're complaining or anything about it just agreeing ) - make more of an issue of things that are against what are supposed to happen by the design ow whatever system it is (elections, computers, war, (all in RL as well as virtual))
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    I agree.

    Even so, if there is something that can be done to tighten up the deadline it would be appreciated.

    I have very little doubt that the races will remain close in the foreseeable future, though some have become jaded by this instance and more will become so if it continues to happen, until we're like so many others and just give up trying to care.

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    govenor on na35 is just horrible, there are 7 govenors, because fools put govenor in their names and just spam wc with "orders" as they like to call them, so it should not be allowed to have Gov or Govenor in the name unless they win the polls.

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    Slightly unfair for the person that lost out, but doubt evony will do anytyhing to fix it.

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    I think this has always happened, just no one really noticed it. We had a tie on na28 and it went to the person with the higher title, this was like 2 months into the server.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xMeaTx View Post
    I think this has always happened, just no one really noticed it. We had a tie on na28 and it went to the person with the higher title, this was like 2 months into the server.

    Yea meat no one notices because the votes are never close enough to really count an extra 5 mins when the new gov was ahead by at least 50 votes only when it comes down to 2-5 votes the last few second does it really count

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