my country is wrong

[trestain]

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]

Are you using a proxy?

[reverend_kyle]

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]

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]

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]

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]

a turtles job is never done

[lackattack]

It's not easy being green

[hendy]

It's not easy being green

lmao

[reverend_kyle]

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]

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]

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ha

[RexRamp]

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.