Some thoughts on improvements to the game

[llamabeast]

It annoys me Gandalf when you say (as you frequently do) that the LlamaServer arose from a community discussion, or from one of your suggestions, because unless my memory has failed me it didn't. It was just an obvious opportunity for useful automation (I could never imagine having the patience of the people who ran PBEM games by hand), and I thought it would be fun to try. You did help me with a command line command for starting new games which has proved quite invaluable (and which I appreciate), but that is different. Sorry to say that, but it annoys me - unlike Sombre I don't really mind people saying a lot of stuff and not doing it, but it is somewhat grating people taking implied credit for ideas they didn't even suggest.

If my memory has failed me of course, which it sometimes does, I apologise.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

It annoys me Gandalf when you say (as you frequently do) that the LlamaServer arose from a community discussion, or from one of your suggestions, because unless my memory has failed me it didn't.

Nahh. The thought of Llama server was more the comment about promised credit lines. Not a big deal. Luckily Im not one who does things for credit. But thanks for remembering.

[lch]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

It annoys me Gandalf when you say (as you frequently do) that the LlamaServer arose from a community discussion, or from one of your suggestions, because unless my memory has failed me it didn't. It was just an obvious opportunity for useful automation (I could never imagine having the patience of the people who ran PBEM games by hand), and I thought it would be fun to try.

This is kind of off-topic, but I have to add that I had similar plans for a fully web-automated Dom3 game server (I still do), though as a non-PBEM server, and I had been working on it infrequently, when your game server popped up and monopolized the market. Which is perfectly fine, since it's good for the player community and you doing it saves me a lot of time and trouble to maintain it, which I can put into other projects instead. That's one such "obvious application" that I was speaking of, which doesn't require that one carefully reads through dozens of suggestions to think about. A lot of things that popped up over time could be expected. Some other things popped up which I wouldn't have thought about, too, of course, as somebody else can be creative and have the required motivation and determination to realize something, too.