Ich's Games

Tyrant · #1 June 8th, 2008, 08:21 PM

Now wait a minute here Jum, first and foremost, i did not "stomp on his integrity", I said i was annoyed. Second, Zach's games did not all disappear at once due to some sort of emergency, they withered away one by one 'cause he pretty much abandoned them and started new ones. Third, Zach is not dead and if he was ever in a coma it did not last long and he recovered. (http://www.evilzombies.com) Since you have only been here three weeks, may i ask how you have determined that he was "a rather active forum member" or evaluated his record of reliability?

Sombre · #2 June 8th, 2008, 08:33 PM

Why are you linking to the 'evil zombies' website?

Also, are they related to 'bomb the bass' who worked with the Bitmap Bros?

Tyrant · #3 June 8th, 2008, 08:38 PM

That is Zach's fine website which has been in operation all along, from which i deduce that he has neither died nor fallen into a coma.

I have no idea what your second question means.

Lingchih · #4 June 9th, 2008, 12:02 AM

I have seen Zachariah on these forums since the demise of his games. I don't want to beat a dead horse, those games are long dead now. But still, if we had a Hall of Shame for hosts, Zach would be on it. He could have at least transferred his games to another host.

I don't know what is up with Gandalf's game server. Perhaps he just does not have the resources to get it going again. I definitely do not blame him, because he at least sent message that his server was down, and would be indefintely.

lch · #5 June 14th, 2008, 12:45 PM

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Lingchih said:
I don't know what is up with Gandalf's game server. Perhaps he just does not have the resources to get it going again. I definitely do not blame him, because he at least sent message that his server was down, and would be indefintely.

Gandalf wrote about his situation and the resources thing in the Shrapnel General forums, here: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=610225

JimMorrison · #6 June 9th, 2008, 02:48 AM

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Tyrant said:
Now wait a minute here Jum, first and foremost, i did not "stomp on his integrity", I said i was annoyed. Second, Zach's games did not all disappear at once due to some sort of emergency, they withered away one by one 'cause he pretty much abandoned them and started new ones. Third, Zach is not dead and if he was ever in a coma it did not last long and he recovered. (http://www.evilzombies.com) Since you have only been here three weeks, may i ask how you have determined that he was "a rather active forum member" or evaluated his record of reliability?

Jum?

Anyway, I'm sorry, I see a lot of people online act toward and speak of others as if they weren't real people, and that their lives revolve around whatever service they are providing for just the satisfaction of providing the service. Maybe I'm just still a little raw after seeing the whole thing with Edi last week.

Anyway, as far as Zach goes, I was extrapolating from the information presented. It was stated that he had hosted a number of games reliably, before he "fell off the face of the earth". I think looked up his user name on these forums, and saw that he was averaging 1-2 posts a day for the week or so prior to the last of his posts. This seemed to illustrate to me someone who wanted and enjoyed their involvement here. I reasoned if he would be so active (and some spoke well of him, only people were mad because he was gone), and quit rather abruptly without any notice, that it might have been out of his control, and thus -potentially- a more than valid reason for nonexistence (death is pretty valid >.>).

Anyway, I feel my point is rather valid, but I apologize, as it seems that it didn't need to be made. <3

SsSam · #7 June 9th, 2008, 10:30 AM

No response from either Gandalf or Ich.
I'm guessing these are dead but would like some word.

Endoperez · #8 June 9th, 2008, 11:30 AM

Gandalf posted about his situation on Shrapnel General, but not here in the Dom3 forum. If you haven't checked out the thread there, I suggest doing so.

Ballbarian · #9 June 9th, 2008, 03:09 PM

I'm betting that words of encouragement would be welcome.

Gandalf's Servers

WraithLord · #10 June 9th, 2008, 03:45 PM

I agree hall of shame for hosts is too negative.

Maybe a list of active hosts with the number of games they hosted to the end and then number of stopped games instead. This kind of list would help players decide with which host they want to play.

WRT zach discussion, just one last statement if I may, when his server went down and he sort of disappeared my first reaction (and I think of most players) was concern. But then as supposed "digital" footprints of his suggested he's well and just ignoring us I had implored him to give me the game files so that I could host it (PBEM) to the end. Sadly, I never got a response. But anyway, this is a rare scenario, the more likely scenarios (that I've unfortunately encountered) are host server was stolen, burnt down etc.