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Replacements for Martha and Vasilii Sorry, no, this isn't Shadowdancer putting up the next chapter... :) In the "real" PBEM game, both the players of Martha and Vasilii have had to drop out of the game due to real life commitments. The players have done a great job of bringling life to...

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. The cargo might have encouraged the crew to make a decision which starts the chain of events which puts them where they are now, but to say that it helps get the crew into the situation seems a bit of a stretch to me. Of course, then again, I'm the GM...

Maybe, maybe not. :cool: Ron

Well, that is partly because the characters BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP and then BLEEP went and BLEEP BLEEP which caused a BLEEP while BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP. Otherwise, the story arc might have been over by now. ;) Ron

That's at the start of the story hour: they all die during jump due to the virus brought onboard at the Aleif refueling station. Ron

After much persistence and patience, I've been able to add things to my cart, but I haven't been able to check out yet. I think that the trick is to just click on the Add to Cart button and wait. If you get a "Connection refused" message, click again. If you get a "Not signed in" or a...

That, I don't know (just shot way beyond my limited understanding: again, I do application interaction design). I would imagine that there are some practical considerations such as still needing a performant web server to handle the requests and requests and manage the queue as well as what to...

My understanding (a layman's understanding, relatively speaking: I'm an interaction designer, not a web backend guy) is that it's a combination of high bandwidth + high web server capacity + performant database server + performant payment server that is required to handle something like lots of...

Come, come now. It isn't exactly the same sort of failure as last year. Okay, we're all stuck trying to register, true, but last year, I wasn't even able to get into the system, let alone trying to get to add something to my cart. That's different, right? ;) Ron

That would be my guess as well. I mean, really, how many of the diehards are not going to go next year because of the Event registration problems? Handful, at tops? Of course, I'm not a diehard (though I'm trying to register), and I'm considering going elsewhere next year for my vacation...

I can, but only intermittently. My guess is that it's on the same server (or at least trunk). Ron

I'm back in, but i've lost the one thing in my cart. Maybe they just rebooted, and I'm back to trying to get to the page to add things again. Joy. Ron

Hey, I got a response of sorts. It said that one of my events was added, then it had an error. Then I got kicked out completely to a page saying "You are not signed in. Server is busy. Please try again later." <sigh> Ron

Oh, it probably was tested, but the people didn't test properly: wrong procedure, wrong input, or just the wrong test load (basing the number of people trying to hit the server based on an inaccurate estimate. Ron

Well, it depends. Vasilii and Saro have switched out players particularly often (both 4 times I think, though Saro has had the same player twice). One person had Marcus before Davy took him over (and eventually moved Marcus offstage so that he could roll up Kevon). Vargas has had 2 players...

Definitely, especially this long story arc which started with the weapon permit. In some ways, I think that some of the best plot developments have been out of me being inspired out of something that the characters have done or, in some cases, scrambling to stay ahead of the characters. Some...

Thank you! I personally would have preferred that they not have taken Holly up on her offer (since that would have given me a hook for later adventures), and you can't say that didn't give them a chance to back out. That's okay: the crew managed to get themselves into some interesting...

Ooooh... Cyber-ninja death weasels from the Imperial Ministry of Justice! <scribble> <scribble> Ironically, fears of someone yelling "Halt! Imperial Ministry of Justice!" *is* on the minds of at least some of the characters in the actual game at this time. Ron PS: I agree with R_Kane: The...

The first one is from Shards of Honor (the Emperor talking to Cordelia). The second one is from the end of Komarr (Miles presenting the Barrayar pendant to Ekaterin). Yes, if GURPS Vorkosigan *EVER* comes out. It's what, 2-3 years late by now? :p Ron

Correction: Vasilii's *PLAYER* at the time. I wasn't sure if he was roleplaying the character really well or aspects of his own personality were coming through. At the time, I had two seemingly contradictory Bujold quotes which seemed to apply. The first (paraphrased): "An astonishing flight...