Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

Nor for me. Llamabeast said he'd kick it off on Friday - I'll ask if there's a problem with the server.

Edit: As yet, no reply.

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

For some reason, www.llamaserver.net shows that the max number of players for our game is 22 when it should be 10. Could that be a reason?

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

Sorry guys, I'm doing a poor job of coping with all the llamaserver stuff at the moment - I have a big deadline coming up at work, no internet access at home, and 3 games to get sorted/started - eeek!

I will endeavour to get it started later today, but it may end up being tomorrow. Really sorry about the delayed start. No internet access at home (and hence basically none at all at weekends) is really proving infuriating! Thankfully the cursed staff of British Telecom are meant to get us sorted by the end of this week. So, only 41 days instead of the stated 72 hours...

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

I've had my problems with BT as well. Service being cut off for no reason, then reattached to the wrong phone number...

Funny thing is, I went with them because they had a good reputation for quality of service. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../firedevil.gif

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

No problem I am just grateful that you are willing to host our game, many thanks once again.

BT are hopeless!

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

I don't know about BT (cos I'm not British) but if I ever migrate to the UK, now I know I won't be using them!

And thanks for hosting our game llamabeast!

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

BT really are spectacularly bad. Unfortunately they still have a monopoly on connecting phone lines, although you can choose someone else to operate the line once it's connected. Actually we did consider cable - but the relevant company (NTL) are notorious for bad customer service so we decided against them! Aaargh!

Anyway - can I just confirm you want to play on Urraparrand for when I get to start it?

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

Yup - Urraparand's the one.

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

BT is just like Swedens Telia; they own all the lines but "lease" them to other companies. It's a pain in the *** for the consumer it is. It has gotten better in recent years though.

Re: Slow Boat to T\'ien Ch\'i - Recruiting
 

NZ are probably worse off though - there is (AFAIK) only one ground telecomms company there. Telecom are also one of the two mobile operators.

Prices aren't exactly great. When I was there in the spring, data transfer was NZ$10 per megabyte.