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Originally Posted by vfb
What other problems have you had with it, Calahan?
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Not so much a problem, it's just I've really come to dislike an encroaching hosting deadline, which easily and regularly results with quickhosting.
From playing in Pasha's RAND game, and the fixed hosting days and times that has (since he hosts it privately), I've found it really helps my enjoyment of games, and I feel in far less of a 'rush' doing my turns.
Since with Pasha's RAND game I know I have all of Tuesday / Thursday / Sunday evenings, to do my turns in. But for example with the llamaserver, and entirely due to the quickhost, and on a 48 hour schedule, the following scenario almost always happnes occurs.
On Tuesday evening I might have until 10pm to do my turn, but then come Thursday that could be down to 9pm, then Saturday it's 8pm, and by the following Monday it's 7pm. So over the course of the week the amount of time I have to do my turns in the evening has gone from about 4 hours to 1 hour. Which either leads me to having rush my turns, or ask for regular delays. Neither of which I like doing.
It also doesn't help that I'm not a player who likes doing two turns in one evening. As I like to do a turn, look at any new turn that might arrive (or look at it the following morning), and then think about that turn over the next day or so. I like my thinking time
So the next game I organise will have the quickhost turned off after the first 10-15 turns, as then the game will host at the same time each day thereafter (and so won't suffer from an encroaching deadline)