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Hello! I've been working on a game for about a month now, and it suddenly disappeared. I created 2 drafts of the game, and both of them are gone. The first draft still shows up in "My Stuff", but all the pages inside it are missing and whenever I try to play the game a window that reads "Server Error in '/' Application" shows up. The second draft is missing altogether. It doesn't show up in "My Stuff", and in my Recent Point Activity it shows "Create Game" but where the title should be it is blank (I'm not sure if this is normal after you delete a game, but I figured I'd mention it anyway).

This happened after I had been working on the game for a couple of hours. Multiple windows of my game were pulled up for editing. I then took a break, but left the windows open. After an hour or two I came back, and I made a few quick edits and hit the button to save and close. A window that said something like "This game doesn't exist. Maybe it's an old link?" showed up, and when I tried to close the other windows, the same thing happened. That was when I discovered that the game (2nd version) had disappeared.

Could anyone explain to me why this happened?

Was it a Warrior Cats story? If so, it may have been clipped in a recent purge or Warrior cat stories from the site.

Warrior Cat stories have been banned on CYS now for about a year.

If it isn't a WC story, then I'm not sure. We can check though, if you can provide the name of the story.

good point - I didn't think to look at the games/point record. I feel sad that I gave an actual response now xD

Don't feel bad. Cheer up with the knowledge that someday, this other story by an unrelated author will show up on the main page:



Why is html so hard? :[

@mizal img src="url" style="width: 100%;"

style adds a CSS element, width: 100% being 100% of whatever the parent HTML block is - in this case a div tag for the post. and all CSS has to end with a semicolon - it's just a bit cleaner that way in the long run.

<img src="" style="width: 100%;" />

Thanks, I'll toss that in the Notepad for future reference. Everyone always hates on the RTE but it was so nice and simple just dragging the picture into the box. :(

10/27/2016 3 Create Game -Warrior Cats: The Game-

Mystery solved!

Oops! Didn't know they've been banned.

Thanks for the help! :)

Server had a hiccup while you left the windows open. Pure coincidence - you just got unlucky. Good practice is to not keep the editor open for too long and to copy (ctrl+c) the latest page of writing to your clipboard BEFORE clicking "save and close" from the editor window.

The create game points are normal - many people create their first games and delete them later, but the points are for creating a game in the first place (first three games, not infinite of course).

Happens to the best of us but there's nothing to really help it sadly (besides overhauling the site tech and having live-backups etc all of which is a great hassel and very expensive to alexp who just runs the site as a hobby on a server he owns).

By past experience, the games should still exist and show up in My Stuff unless manually deleted - even if the games are corrupted in some way. If you created the game, worked on it for hours without clicking "save and exit" for the entire game (not just pages and chapters etc) then the game may have not been saved by the server and possibly when the hiccup happened the server never knew you worked on a game in the first place.

All this boils down to it was just a technical error. Nothing of note can be done. Sorry for your loss, I hope it wasn't a whole ton of work! Technology isn't perfect sadly, and neither are humans; so all we can do is learn from the experience and prep to minimize damages whenever it might happen again.

Tough luck for me I guess, haha. Next time I'll be sure to save more often!

Thanks :)

Moved this to keep B&P clear.

Sorry that your game was deleted -- we've been dealing with a litany of low quality WC fan fiction for a number of years now and even unpublished stories lead to WC fans finding us on Google more easily, so we've been forced to remove even those stories.

Fuckin' ruthless. You coathanger-shanked his game before it even had a chance at life. 

I found this site from warrior cats. I think it's a missed opportunity.

With all due respect, you've opened the book to chapter 20; you haven't seen what we've seen.

Even the game I played was horrible. It was along the lines of;

'you walk to you're clan, and your mate is there. 'were having kits' they shout. you are happy'

Yeah, 99% were like that and they constituted roughly 75% of newly published stories at any given time. We're aware that very occasionally, someone comes around and wants to write WC fan fiction and can actually write decently, but it's just not remotely worth it.

It would be entertaining to see all of the most famous writers on this site to write Warriors fanfiction.

That would be the stuff of nightmares.

Exactly. I think everyone has noticed it now... Please do :)

Please no.

You can do Survivors, if you like :^). I know you like dogs.

Eh? Survivors?

It's also by the author of warrior cats.

http://www.warriorcats.com/survivors

Hmmm

A pack of dogs instead of a clan of cats, huh?

Unfortunately we have had a lot of shitty dog/wolf pack stories on here too, though just not to the same epidemic level of the warrior cats plague.

Yep. If it becomes a problem, we'll ban those too. I think Survivors is actually banned as well, but I could be wrong about that.

Is there a list of banned stories? If so, I'd like to see it. NOT LIKE I'M MAKING A COMBO OR ANYTHING.

LIST

Warrior Cats
Survivors (I think)
Pornography

I'm imagining all of that in one game...

One word. No.

So many stories mention pornography. Warrior Cats/Survivors Crossover Porno.

Sooooo.....Seekers isn't banned, right? XD

Crescent, shhh. Don't mention these things.

B-but... What if I want to write a Seekers fan fiction?

The WC writers will use it as a loophole, Crescent! There will be "clans of bears" storygames soon!

Since we don't have to pass laws through parliament here, I'm not too worried about loopholes. If we get a litany of shitty WC-like fiction, we'll just ban that category too.

B-but... Seeker doesn't involve clans... Well... I mean, the focus isn't about a group of... Well... I mean, a clan of bears isn't even logical. It doesn't work out right. :<

 

I don't even want to read this post. It's got it all: fake stutters, large blocks of crossed out text, text smiley faces, over indulged ellipses...

XD Come on. It's no fun otherwise. :p

 

I hope it never comes to this because animal perspective dog stories legitimately can be good. There's plenty of examples in fiction, some of them classics.

Even cat stories can be good when they're not inexplicably fighting clan wars with each other in a forest and are in some way related to actual cats.

Crap. *quickly goes to make the setting in a city* I don't intend to write a, ah, cat-clan type of thing, but I do plan to write a storygame from a feline perspective.

I like them when they're written well, in other words.

Which I agree with. White Fang and The Call of the Wild, anyone? A Dog's Purpose was good as well. There was that other story I remember reading about two dogs and a cat traveling to find their owner that I truthfully liked.

Yeah, Jack London's stuff is probably the main reason I still consider dog and wolf stories to have a tiny shred of respectability on this site, though none of the children ever seem to want to do anything to justify that.

For something less serious, I remember the Hank the Cowdog books as just good, ridiculous fun. Think I started reading them back in the 4th grade so they've been around awhile.

Hey! I remember that series :o

I'm getting a strange sense of embarrassment, shame and déjà vu.

Holy fuck your points are positive.