Mosehansen games ?

[Thufir]

Regen said:
3 times now games that I have originally signed up for have been restarted cause various people have borked something, and when the game is restarted some dufus has taken the spot I was originally signed up for. Any thoughts on how to avoid this, or is it just inivitable?

I've hosted several games on mosehansen now, and I can say that there's no convenient way to avoid this, but that it is certainly not inevitable. One of the largest contributing factors is the fact that when you upload your pretender on top of an existing pretender, it does not successfully upload, but the UI gives you the impression that it has. This is a bug that IW needs to fix (I think I read in a post somewhere that this bug was introduced along the way, in one of the patches).

One thing that I think helps is if the game owner forces players to use the signup thread, rather than letting people claim spots via signing up on mosehansen. Another thing that is helpful is to not allow people to play anonymously. Since there is no forum or PM mechanism on mosehansen to allow communication, confusion is increased by letting players claim a spot simply by uploading.

To this end, Esben has indicated that if a game owner needs to kick someone off who has claimed a spot, but is not anonymous, he will do so manually if requested via PM.