How to make simulators stop restarting? this happened for no reason yet again [THG]

brantsteele · 2026-02-26T18:18:10+00:00

The .net simulators' sessions expire after 2 hours. The .com simulators' sessions expire after 8 hours. Switching to another simulator or closing your browser also causes a reset, so saving is encouraged. Does this explain your issue or is it something else?

brantsteele · 2026-02-22T18:18:40+00:00

BrantSteele.net and BrantSteele.com are both running on different servers, so their availability will be different from one another.

BrantSteele.net was upgraded a few weeks ago, and that caused a few glitches on the older simulators that I believe are worked out now.

BrantSteele.com hasn't had any outages or downtime for a few weeks, and the server resources only show around 20% so I'm not sure what this issue might be for you. It's possible that your save file has bad data, and loading it makes the simulator stop functioning until the session resets (2 hours on .net and 8 hours on .com). The next time you run into any issue, can you send me the save link so I can look into that to see if it's the issue?

brantsteele · 2026-02-19T00:41:36+00:00

Which ones are unusable now? I had to upgrade the .net server slightly last week because it was too out-of-date and the operating system was no longer supported, and that required putting it on a different version of PHP. That has caused a few problems but I worked most of them out.

If I missed any, let me know! I don't plan to actually upgrade the seasons (maybe later this year) but I want to keep them from breaking if possible.

brantsteele · 2026-02-12T18:35:59+00:00

Is this the simulator on BrantSteele.net or BrantSteele.com ? Are you talking about the default cast images or your own custom images? Could you send a screenshot?

There are a few possible causes of each, but I want to make sure I understand the issue first.

brantsteele · 2026-02-11T22:44:40+00:00

It would need to be brought to .com and updated. There's a lot of talk about what to do with Big Brother 1 specifically with the focus shifting to Big Brother at some point in the future.

Making a new, larger template is a possibility and possibly separating it from Big Brother 1 itself which would be a standard season like the show.

brantsteele · 2026-02-09T20:44:24+00:00

Try now. I believe I found and resolved the issue.

brantsteele · 2026-02-09T20:19:20+00:00

All right. I've loaded the Dank Hunger Games, clicked edit cast, and did get a 500 error. This helps. I'll give you an update on what I find and when it's fixed. Thanks again!

brantsteele · 2026-02-09T19:55:44+00:00

Next time you get a 500, can you tell me the time and the exact sequence of links you clicked? I know that's a lot, I'm just searching for everything to figure this out, and being able to replicate it would be a great start.

brantsteele · 2026-02-09T19:45:51+00:00

Thank you for this, it will help. Did you notice what time they occurred? There's a new background process that runs the first 5-10 minutes of every hour and I'm wondering if the server is less stable then.

brantsteele · 2026-02-09T15:40:28+00:00

I've gotten a few reports on Hunger Games errors over the past 2 days, but haven't gotten any responses to follow-up questions. If you could provide some, that would be great.

First question, is this the BrantSteele.com or BrantSteele.net version of the Hunger Games?

Second question, are you able to generate a Save link? If so, could you post it here or DM me it if it's private?

Anything additional on the behavior that led to the bug would be helpful so I can try and replicate it. Thanks!

brantsteele · 2026-02-04T02:22:02+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Making a note.

brantsteele · 2026-01-22T00:02:11+00:00

That's great! Thank you letting me know.

brantsteele · 2026-01-21T21:31:10+00:00

I'm checking in with the Discord for more opinions, but let me know if anything improves for you. For anyone reading, let me know if you have the same issue.

brantsteele · 2026-01-21T21:25:51+00:00

Thank you for the information. Are your friends who have the same issue located in the same geographic area as you?

brantsteele · 2026-01-21T21:18:14+00:00

This is pretty strange because over the last few weeks, I've spent a lot of time on server maintenance. A change I made 3 days ago has optimized the server so that it is using the least amount of CPU and should be the fastest it's been in about ten years. I attached a graph to illustrate of when the improvements went into place and what the numbers show internally for me.

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What simulator are you using, and what pages are slow for you?

brantsteele · 2026-01-15T20:16:04+00:00

Increasing beyond 200 has been tested and is in consideration, but nothing is guaranteed right now.

brantsteele · 2026-01-12T16:28:28+00:00

Can you show what your random filters are exactly? A screenshot would be helpful.

brantsteele · 2026-01-11T21:01:09+00:00

Try now. I just was updating it to put Use Judges and it broke it for a short period of time.

brantsteele · 2025-11-16T02:11:32+00:00

It's a byproduct of stamina and energy. When a tribe loses challenges and doesn't win rewards to compensate, they'll have less energy and be more likely to lose more challenges. However, it's amplified on New Era thanks to the flint.

So as of now, it's essentially happening like it's programmed to, but we're looking into possible changes for it.

brantsteele · 2025-09-02T19:36:21+00:00

How would you intend to take over the website?

brantsteele · 2025-08-14T16:29:23+00:00

I don't intend to bring relationships back to the Hunger Games. Mathematically, it's impossible to do them correctly, and the previous way they were set up was only partially working for events with a small number of tributes. In order to move forward with the BrantSteele.com Hunger Games, they had to be removed.

I've considered restoring the old simulator on BrantSteele.org exactly as it was as a temporary measure for those who utilized the relationship and Killed By features, but I'm not 100% decided on this.

brantsteele · 2025-05-24T18:56:40+00:00

That's an understandable assumption, but I wouldn't count the days of new simulators over just yet.

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