Ich's Games

[Meglobob]

Wraithlord, to be fair to Zachariah before Fearsome Legions he must have hosted 6 - 10+ server games which were all completed.

llamserver and Pasha are indeed both excellent, gold star+++, hosts.

[llamabeast]

Thankyou.

lch is also a very reliable guy indeed - it's not his fault that Gandalf's computer exploded. I'm sure Gandalf will be trying to fix it, but of course lch can't do anything and probably doesn't know exactly what's going on.

It's frustrating that there is no access to the game files either, otherwise the games could be transferred.

[Lingchih]

No blame to anyone, but 3 of my last six MP games have ended because the host dropped out. I would support some sort of hall of fame/shame for game hosts. And I would nominate Velusion and llamabeast for the hall of fame.

[MaxWilson]

Hmmmm. Rather than a hall of fame/shame, why not have a "backup" host who receives copies of the game files throughout the game? You'd have to trust him with copies of the game files, but if he had to take over hosting you'd have to trust him anyway.

-Max

[llamabeast]

Sounds like you've been spectacularly unlucky Lingchih. Such things are generally very rare, as Meglobob says.

[Lingchih]

llamabeast said:
Sounds like you've been spectacularly unlucky Lingchih. Such things are generally very rare, as Meglobob says.

I guess it has been a fault of only playing server games, and never PBEM. The PBEM hosts (llamaserver, pashadawg) seem very reliable. I would note, though, that Velusion's server has also always been reliable, although he has dropped out of the games for a bit. He still hosts Fallacy though, for which I am grateful.

I have to say, that if I was hosting games, I might find it tiresome at some point. But I would definitely try to get those games sent over to someone else who could host, rather than just going AWOL.

[WraithLord]

Meglobob said:
Wraithlord, to be fair to Zachariah before Fearsome Legions he must have hosted 6 - 10+ server games which were all completed.

llamserver and Pasha are indeed both excellent, gold star+++, hosts.

I didn't know that, and its good that you've mentioned this.

My point about worst, was that this was my worst personal experience of this kind. I have no idea what happened there. I recall that the players, including myself, have PMed and emailed him but never got a response. The worst thing about this is the abruptness in which the game stopped and the complete lack of information (up to this day) what has happened there.

[JimMorrison]

If his server just went down out of the blue, and he stopped responding to any communication..... You might consider being more worried than angry.....

[DonCorazon]

If you read the original thread I think the players were more worried than angry.