If someone likes setting up games and doing the occasional hosting (chiefly when rolling back one turn), you might wish to let me know now, for the betterment of humankind and the like - or plain old KOTH, but it doesn't sound quite as grandiose.
As you may know, I'm running SEIV in a non-native environment, going through the Wine compatibility layer (SEIV is the only Windows program I still run here). Somehow, quite probably because I'm not exactly a master of that moby program, its functionality has gradually decreased with each system change, update, and so on. I have been unable to do any turn processing for a few weeks, and I'm having a very tough time playing the game in the first place now.
I'll try to reinstall Wine and SEIV from scratch, but that will probably wait for a few days after the bulk of my exams has come and gone. If it doesn't help, it will probably be best to find someone else to do the game creating/hosting (where needed). Even now, the inability to roll back games or reset passwords is quite annoying... though at least it isn't *that* frequent.
The corollary is, I'm also not going to do my turns unless I can kludge Wine into more or less working (not trying to crash my X server prior to the Empire Dialog screen would be a start). So Renegade, you should either hope for a quick resolution, or none at all; in the latter case, you could claim one of the quickest victories in the history of KOTH.
(We are at turn 22 or so)