Hi all,
As many of you know, there have been a few incidences of phantom sieges.
All sieges should be from one of the 8 squares directly adjacent to a target city, and a phantom siege is defined as a siege that sets up and bombards a city from a non-adjacent square to a target city.
We know that this situation occurs when the target city has a siege inbound, and moves via Exodus - but we're really not sure precisely how it happens; as the code would appear to forbid this situation from occurring - and we're not sure why it doesn't work this way in all circumstances.
However, as a temporary patch, we've put some code in place that checks - every few minutes - to see whether a city is under siege where the [X|Y] co-ordinate difference between the sieging army and the target town is more than one square in any direction. If it finds any sieging armies that meet this criteria, it repatriates them, with a message to the sieging army.
Please note in this phantom siege situation, a siege may still arrive and start to prepare for bombardment, but it should now be repatriated the moment the city is no longer located adjacent to the siege. However, as it takes 12hrs to set up a siege before bombardment begins, we hope your city should not take any inbound bombardments from non-adjacent sieges.
Please do, as ever, open a petition if this issue reoccurs. And if it does, as much detail as you can supply (timings of when the siege arrived, when you started Exodus, etc) would be most, most welcome; so we can hopefully make a more permanent fix rather than this automated "repatriation patch".
On another note, some people were experiencing an issue with the SSL certificate for the website in the last few days. This affected people only using https (SSL) to view only the generic website (www.illyriad.co.uk) - rather than the game server (elgea.illyriad.co.uk) which had the secure certificate on it.
Whilst we're not sure why anyone would want to view the generic illy website securely (!)... now you can if you wish, as we've installed the new wildcard *.illyriad.co.uk SSL certificate onto the www servers, not just the elgea gameservers.
I suspect you can still pull up a certificate error if you try reading this forum (forum.illyriad.co.uk) using https... but I have yet to read anything on the forum (including my own posts!) that would require secure communications
Best wishes,
SC