my country is wrong

trestain · Post by **trestain** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:39 am

on the scorebnoard it says my country is the united states. i just checked myself and i am still in the uk where i have always been.

just wondering if anyone knew why this was

AK_iceman · Post by **AK_iceman** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:41 am

Are you using a proxy?

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:41 am

you using a proxy?

I use a uk proxy at school and i appear from the uk as I have a uk ip..

so if you have a us ip somehow thats why.

trestain · Post by **trestain** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:44 am

have neither of them it has always said uk before it has just changed the only thing i have different is i am now using a notifier for my games, don't think that could do it though

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:45 am

Damn fastposted..

Well, i think this is a bug that lack has recognized and is workingon...

if it bothers you so much.. try using a proxy from the uk.

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:31 am

The way it works is every Wednesday (except this Wednesday - forgot to set it up on new server

) we get an updated GeoIP database. Each time you login it looks up your IP in the database and saves the associated country to your account.

But even an up-to-date database is only 99% accurate and we have more than 99 members so this is bound to happen. I need to put an override mechanism in place so people can correct their country. It's on my to-do list

AAFitz · Post by **AAFitz** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:02 am

a turtles job is never done

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:42 pm

It's not easy being green

hendy · Post by **hendy** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:49 pm

lackattack wrote:It's not easy being green

lmao

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:06 pm

lackattack wrote:
But even an up-to-date database is only 99% accurate and we have more than 99 members so this is bound to happen. I need to put an override mechanism in place so people can correct their country. It's on my to-do list

Doesn't that lead to potential abuse like me making my country bolivia.

Pedronicus · Post by **Pedronicus** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:58 pm

I've been contacted by a lot of Polish players (over 30) - and they are all showing a union jack by their names.

Then we all worked out that they are all here picking potatoes, building the olympic stadium and fitting wonky windows!

How we all laughed.....

trestain · Post by **trestain** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:05 pm

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ha

RexRamp · Post by **RexRamp** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:44 am

reverend_kyle wrote:
lackattack wrote:
But even an up-to-date database is only 99% accurate and we have more than 99 members so this is bound to happen. I need to put an override mechanism in place so people can correct their country. It's on my to-do list

Doesn't that lead to potential abuse like me making my country bolivia.

Agree, it's a way to avoid cheaters to not enter a game with people from the same country who joined the same day. Think it's better to have 1 out of 100 wrong than making it easier to cheat.

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