Epic Heroes Mod MA game(finished)

[llamabeast]

Server was acting up deliberately. The mail server (a different machine entirely, and not mine) was being funny last night, and the llamaserver mostly couldn't reach it. To stop people staling unfairly it postpones hosting on each failure. Er, so if the mail server is down for an hour I think the server postpones hosting by a total of 2 hours, to allow an extra hour at the end for any messages that might have been unable to reach the mail server to arrive.

I believe the server will have put an automated message on the front page to this effect, but being as it always seems to happen when I'm in bed I've never actually seen it.

[Xietor]

It is a couple hours until host, and only 2 people have their turns in. I had to submit mine twice earlier, so there may have been a few issues.

I am going to push back host an hour and keep an eye on it. Get your turns in!

[jutetrea]

So anything exciting been happening? Board's pretty quiet.

[Tuidjy]

*sigh* For some reason I am kinda bored with this game. It was supposed
to let me get accustomed to Dominions III. That it did, but now I realize
how many things I did wrong, and it's kind of a drag. I am still learning
from it (thanks Xietor) but I always take my turns in the last second, and
am less careful with the lives of my men than I usually am. And there is
no roleplaying to do so, yeah, I'm quiet :-)

[LoloMo]

The pacifistic Agarthans, having no real strategic talent, and thus having NAPPed themselves into a corner are currently sitting around twiddling their thumbs, waiting for some foolish nation to declare war on them, and thus explode the entire world into war once more =)

[Xietor]

Sua Sponte I have delayed hosting by 1 hour due to almost half the players not yet doing their turns.

Since we are getting few stales, i am assuming people are deliberately waiting until the last minute to do their turns. This laziness baffles me since force host is not on.

[Xietor]

Due to recent events on the forums, under the thread title "mists of deception" a major bug has been exposed.

As game administrator, I am going to take the same stance Velusion took in the Big Game:

1. Mists of deception is banned. Casting it will be dealt with on a case by case basis, but you most likely will be put on AI. It is a major bug and is on the short list to be fixed.

2. Battlefield enchantments are supposed to disappear when the mage casting the battlefield enchantment leaves the battle or dies. Some spells stay up after a mage retreats or dies. While we cannot do anything about mages dying, it will be considered an exploit to deliberately cast a battlefield enchantment and have the casting mage deliberately retreat(ie cast ritual of returning or script to retreat).

I know we are all honorable players and do not want to win by using what has been labeled as an exploit by the developers. Apparently it will be corrected in the next patch. Understandably, most of us have used and have had these tactics used against us. But we are all going to have to adjust our tactics.