quote:Originally posted by Promethius
I just got into a game on the ICE9 server and ran into a bit of a problem. It seems that the rules for the games are posted on a website - nothing wrong with that, but there was nothing on the intro screen to direct one to their website for rules. I reached this site using StarDock's search engine.
Anyway, I podded a few players in the game and then it sounded as if I had entered a daycare center with all of the crying going on. The sysOp was not involved with this so I really don't know his/her take on the situation.
If anyone decides to play on ICE9, just be aware that they have a website with their rules posted and you will need to visit it prior to dropping a fig outside of dock or chasing someone down by dscan and podding them.
SysOps/GameOps, if you are going to establish rules, put a link on your intro screen to indicate where those rules are. If not, then peeps coming in from somewhere other than the website will probably not know about them and are sure to break them - esp no figs outside of dock or ones regarding gridding.
On 9/17 the hard drive on the server died I’m sorry to say and until the 23 there was simply one game up listed as a temp game that was really only there for players to connect to each other. Do to the large player base that emerged in the temp game rather than delete the game it was closed and allowed to continue when I put up two new games on the 17’th. Its true that on the 20th there was no posted rules on the into page but they were there for the opening of the games on Friday and as you said they are on the ice9 web page at http://www.oregonsouth.com/ice9 and that address is prominently displayed on the log in screen.
Its easy to read a couple lines from a post or two on here from people who haven’t spent a lot of time at ICE9 and have a misunderstanding about what the board is about.
First of all Yes we do run some games that have rules that many people here would not like; these are clearly labeled as building games. We also run unregulated games. Most of the time Half the games are unregulated. The rules are clearly posted by pressing ! At the main menu and on both the main page and the rules page of the ice 9 website. Other than the disruption caused by the crash indicated above the rules have always been posted and have not changed for many months. Many months ago it was suggested by some that the rules to the building games be made clearer so they were changed to their present form and I have not had a problem with the clarity since that time.
I do try to keep on top of dupe problems and do so aggressively but that’s not to be confused with the post about bill gates. That was a player who took it upon himself in one of the building games to police players he assumed were dupes, most of who were not, and he was dealt with as soon as I got wind of it.
Currently there are only two open games running. One is unregulated and one is a building game. I drop by each of these frequently along with the one closed game. I plan on bringing it up to the normal 6 open games over the next 4 to 6 weeks. Most nights there are about 15 to 25 players scattered around the board. Not a huge number but most seem to be having fun.
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Ah well, that just guaranteed I would do my best to #SD# him.