I'm sorry to keep bringing this up. However, this time I thought I would do it in a way that makes it very easy for people to chime in with their view points.
I'm complained in the past about delayed games which was frustrating. I haven't played a single (non-blitz) multiplayer game that hasn't had server problems.
And now is appears very possible that a large multiplayer
game is gone. We still had 10+ active players and around 40 turns into the game. I don't want to tally up all the hours I spent on this game... mostly in preparation and build up to what WAS soon to come.
It is certainly understandable that a "real life" emergency can occur. If something happened to my family I can assure you that keeping the Dom3 game running would be the last thing on my mind.
However, you are still affecting many people. I would guess that their have been 100's of hours put into this game collectively by the people playing it.
And what if the cause of the game ending is not some emergency. Perhaps the host has simply "moved past" dominions or is unhappy with how they are doing in the game? This doesn't seem to be an acceptable risk to me.
I think shrapnel (or Illwinter) should setup an official game server. Please place your vote and your comments.
Thanks for your time,
Adam Schroeder