MP Game - Yarnspinners - Page 5

Cheezeninja · #1 September 13th, 2004, 01:10 AM

Karacan, by way of his girlfriend, has requested that we suspend Yarnspinners until wednsday because he's in the hospital getting his appendix out. I for one don't have a problem with it, and a couple others have expressed the same feelings in the post about his hospitalization.

magnate · #2 September 13th, 2004, 03:56 AM

Fine with me. Do I have to do something on the server to stop the game hosting?

Alneyan · #3 September 13th, 2004, 09:51 AM

I *think* you need to log in on Mosehansen and change the options there (postpone the next turn hosting for example). I am not sure if you can disable all automated turns though, or anything along these lines.

magnate · #4 September 13th, 2004, 05:08 PM

Well, I logged in to Esben's server and clicked "stop game". It said hosting in 240 minutes (which is odd, because I thought it hosted on Wednesday), so I thought it best. Someone let me know when Karacan is back and I'll restart it. Turns are in from Alneyan, YellowCactus, Cheezeninja, Petar, Puffyn and Yvelina. Still waiting for turns from Jarenko, Mark and Sheap - and Karacan, of course.

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Karacan · #5 September 19th, 2004, 05:58 PM

Before this game drops from the participants' consciousness, would anyone be willing to host it as a pbem? I am pretty sure that Esben will send out the fatherland file on request.

I am notoriously unreliable for hosting larger games, I am afraid, but if there is really noone else, I'll do it. magnate would be the best bet for that, though.

Alneyan · #6 September 19th, 2004, 06:10 PM

If needed, I am also able and willing to take care of the hosting part. I would be the one benefiting the most from going the PBEM road (since I cannot be expected to be able to do TCP/IP), and so it might be fair to make me work for that advantage.

Hosting would be a matter of minutes though, especially as this game runs twice a week. And am I the only one who finds the hosting part to be almost fun to do?

puffyn · #7 September 19th, 2004, 09:39 PM

PBEM is fine. It would be nice to keep this game going. I'd have no problem hosting either, but since we should reach some sort of consensus I think Alneyan should do it.

I suppose most game participants can be counted on to check this thread, but is there any other way to make sure everyone is aware of this change?

Alneyan · #8 September 19th, 2004, 09:49 PM

Emailing and/or PMs might do the trick for players not checking this thread. Players not having send their turns again would be nagged through these means; hopefully they would all be reached by emails/PMs.

Speaking of which, how much time should be given if/when the switch to PBEM happens? In other words, how much time would be considered "reasonable" for players to send in their turn files?

Karacan · #9 September 19th, 2004, 09:54 PM

First of all, get Esben to send you the respective files. I think if we can switch to Pbem until end of next week, we're good.

PMing people sounds like a good solution. I'll PM you my email address.

Karacan · #10 September 19th, 2004, 09:57 PM

First of all, get Esben to send you the respective files. I think if we can switch to Pbem until end of next week, we're good.

PMing people sounds like a good solution. I'll PM you my email address.

And yes, at least to my knowledge, you're the only one thinking hosting is fun.

I don't like organizing, sending out the right files to the right people, counting if everything's in, answering questions... yuck. I did enough customer support jobs, thanks...