Ich's Games

[JimMorrison]

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]

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

[Endoperez]

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]

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

Gandalf's Servers

[WraithLord]

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.

[Aezeal]

Since llama is nearly always up maybe the other servers could send him a copy of each turn ? (as suggested before) (of course I have no idea how difficult this would be, and how much of a hassle it would be for llama... but I'm volunteering him anyway )

Seems like someone should hurt that Zach guy though :G

[Gandalf Parker]

WraithLord said:
I agree hall of shame for hosts is too negative.

Let me chime in totally agreeing on this. That would be like a hall of shame for people who almost climbed Mt Everest. Or people who almost achieved world peace. Im sorry but I do not recommend shaming people who almost hosted a game perfectly. It might work better to thank them, mention the things they did right, and then mention somewhere that they might want to ask the other hosts for a hint on.

I will also mention that its not the hardware, or the software, that tends to kill most hosts. Managing the game is nothing compared to managing the users. So if a host dies the players might want to look there for the problems first, and take their own steps to not let it happen to their next host.

(ok, old grumpy server rant mode /off)

[lch]

SsSam said:
No response from either Gandalf or Ich.

I have detailed the situation in a separate thread in the MP section, here: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=610156

I don't know why another thread was created here again, as I linked to that thread in all of the games that I have been hosting at the time. Also, I haven't given any updates as there was nothing to report - and I got obsessed with RentACoder.com in the meantime. If you'd have checked my profile, you'd have noticed that I was practically offline from the Shrapnel forums for a week. Since I have no interest to start hosting new games unless the old games are back, I've taken a break. If there was any development at all that I could inform you about, then I'd have done so.