[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Chazar:
Bad luck. I got a stale turn now and I dont know now why my prophet and his army vanished. It shouldnt have hosted again after 12.00h anyway...

Yep, sounds like it re-hosted when the server came back up - I didn't get to see the results of my battle the turn before, but happily only lost troops, not commanders.

Alternatively I can also offer to host the game myself now, as a good friend of mine allows us to use his DSL-connected routing PC (a solution I havent thought of before), so we might consider to simply restart the game with the 4 starting provinces as intended if everyone else wants that as well, saving Norfleet the trouble to take care of our game.

A possible problem with this is that your friend's DSL probably has a dynamic IP address, which will change if he reboots or the DSL connection is reset. This winds up being a real pain, since the game is then stalled until the host informs people what the IP address has changed to. (He might have a static IP, but most DSL providers either don't provide statics at all, or charge extra to set one up.)

I'll go either way - restarting with 4 provinces, or continuing the game as is. The restart would probably take a while for everyone to get their pretenders in before it could be started.