New & raw web based Dominion II game server

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
Cute, Cohen. You stopped a game slot that you'd been hogging for weeks (started on the ... 7th of July or so), and had someone else immediately recreate it. You think you're slick, eh?

Uh, Cainehill. As much as I know you love to hate Cohen, you really can't blame him for this one: The Battlefield folks, apparently devoid of a server for hosting Dom2 tournament games, have chosen to use the Mosehansen server, as their most logical choice: It's a neutral server not owned by any of the players. As Cohen happened to be a staffmember (a questionable move, which, I feel, among many others lately, is undermining the Battlefield's legitimacy as the Official Dom2 Tournament Organizing Service), it's only reasonable to expect him to operate such a game.

Since, of course, everyone has been rather irate with Cohen, obviously, the owner of The Battlefield has decided to take charge of the matter personally. I don't sense Cohen's involvement in this decision.

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The fact still remains that Cohen, and The Battlefield, have played dog-in-the-manger with a slot for going on three weeks without starting a game.

As you say, TB taking on Cohen puts them in a dubious light. Them also not using their own machine (c'mon, hosting Dom2 takes way less than hosting a website like that) is dubious, as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
As you say, TB taking on Cohen puts them in a dubious light. Them also not using their own machine (c'mon, hosting Dom2 takes way less than hosting a website like that) is dubious, as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

This is true, although for reasons that similarly baffle me, other people, who also have websites of their own, have been known to still lack the ability to run Dom2. Perhaps it's because their shell is actually crippled and unable to run processes? I've heard of this sort of thing happening, where every time you logout, the system kills all of your processes.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
... as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

That little detail was not mentioned when they approached me :-( I resent that very much. My server is for fun, not for profit, and besides, I'm not sure that for-profit serving is allowed in the contract with my ISP.

So quite possibly, if this is true, they will have to move. It even rhymes...

(And my server is not public domain! It's my server --- I just choose to lend it to the dom2 community for a while)

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
... as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

I wasn't aware that the Battlefield was for profit. Because I sure as hell haven't sent them anything. In fact, they owe me $50.

This doesn't sound terribly profitable. Where'd you hear they were for profit?

[archaeolept]

ehh, all this cohen and related slot hogging is pretty dismal. really, I think he's used his lifetime supply of slots...

anyways, Esben thanks again for all your trouble. hopefully you don't find this slot-whoring too much irritating drama.

Is it your plan to delete defunct games? since even ancient games still seem listed on the server. I don't know whether they cause any resource drag, (probably not), but they do clutter up the game lists.

for the record, all games that I have been in are now over:

BigGame
Battle_for_Heaven
Crowded_Land (yay me!)
Twelve_by_High_Magic
SixManAran

-ok, this Last i can't swear to, but Wendigo was quite dominant as of turn 40 or so...
I'm pretty sure its just been staling for ages

edit: also
toolsfools
Godhood

and those testgames probably don't need to hang around (just guessing)

[ July 21, 2004, 15:47: Message edited by: archaeolept ]

[Cohen]

As far as I know The Battlefield has nothing about "for profit".

And running a website doesn't always mean having a PC at disposal.
Even usually you take only the domain, and you've remote access only to your website harddisk space, not to the entire computer, nor you can install things on.
In Italy at least it works so, unless obviously you'rent someone who sell web space to other (who usually have the server farms)

[Zapmeister]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
IN 4 hours, the game will host again, and if all human players stale again I'll kill it...

...The timestamp match this. Really weird. Anyway, I'll stop this game now.

Strange. Two games gone, and no new ones in the open list (that I noticed). Yet the server is still saying that it's full