Innit
26.04.24, 23:43
Today we're in the field of IT operations.
Often I get bored of waiting for the spinny thing when assigning troops to a general and switch to other things. When I get back I'm often greeted by
https://i.imgur.com/7Q2i9V9.png
While kicking my instance isn't exactly maintenance I guess you're freeing up resources in the underprovisioned servers. When I click the button I get kicked to
https://i.imgur.com/XOFrHax.png
I strongly suspect that this is because I get sent to the non-secure HTTP (not HTTPS) server. I'm sure this kind of thing is confusing to non-IT players. While only allowing HTTPS is a good idea on any site that has user input and logins, it is very basic to just set up the web server to forward all HTTP traffic to HTTPS.
I am left wondering what kind of half-baked web server doesn't say "403" Forbidden. Not important.
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My original wish and intent was to create a thread with one "Innits how to easily improve the game" suggestion a day. I think I have enough to last a lifetime. Having read this subforums guidelines I reluctantly will not (for now). I would be less reluctant if I thought anyone from BB actually read and listened to these suggestions - if they did we would have had a way to mass send explorers years ago.
This is the third, here's yesterday's post (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/39530-Formatting-numbers-how-to-easily-improve-the-game?p=374645#post374645).
Often I get bored of waiting for the spinny thing when assigning troops to a general and switch to other things. When I get back I'm often greeted by
https://i.imgur.com/7Q2i9V9.png
While kicking my instance isn't exactly maintenance I guess you're freeing up resources in the underprovisioned servers. When I click the button I get kicked to
https://i.imgur.com/XOFrHax.png
I strongly suspect that this is because I get sent to the non-secure HTTP (not HTTPS) server. I'm sure this kind of thing is confusing to non-IT players. While only allowing HTTPS is a good idea on any site that has user input and logins, it is very basic to just set up the web server to forward all HTTP traffic to HTTPS.
I am left wondering what kind of half-baked web server doesn't say "403" Forbidden. Not important.
--
My original wish and intent was to create a thread with one "Innits how to easily improve the game" suggestion a day. I think I have enough to last a lifetime. Having read this subforums guidelines I reluctantly will not (for now). I would be less reluctant if I thought anyone from BB actually read and listened to these suggestions - if they did we would have had a way to mass send explorers years ago.
This is the third, here's yesterday's post (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/39530-Formatting-numbers-how-to-easily-improve-the-game?p=374645#post374645).