Hi Everyone:
Near the top of any page on the dipsters.org site, there is now a navigation tab that reads, "Hosting Games".
This contains instructions on how to host Dipsters games along with a number of game templates which you may use and modify in creating your games.
Enjoy!
Alan
Back from a series of vacations and looking to GM my first game EVER. Haven't seen much in the way of Judge selection. Seem to recall reading awhile back that it was polite to ask a judgemaster for permission prior to setting up a game on their judge. Is there a shortlist of Dipster friendly JMs? What's the story on that USDD judge?
Perhaps I'm over analyzing the situation. However, I don't want be guilty of any GM faux pas.
Thanks and sorry about the noob question.
Mark
USDD judge has one game waiting to fill. If it hasn't filled by the time it has waited a year, it will be deleted, and the judge will be shut down. If it does fill, then the judge will be available until the game is complete (plus a little time for EOGs.
USAL is open and available for new games: usal@dip.game-host.org
Alan
Hi Mark:
It is very nice to contact the GMs prior to creating a game on their judges but I do not think that it is necessary.
There are a number of JKs who run very reliable Ken Lowe judges and who are also members of Dipsters.
USAL: Alan Lange
USAK: Chris Babcock
USAZ: Todd Lawson
DEDO: Millis Miller
Sam Tyler, who I believe subscribes to this list, currently runs USDP, which is probably the most popular judge but not a Ken Lowe type judge.
There are also reliable Ken Lowe judges where the JKs are not members of the Dipsters Group:
USOS: Nightshade (Dejan Milosavljevic)
FROG: Philippe Lalande
This is not a complete list by any means but it represents the judges I use most of the time.
Best Regards,
Alan Mennel
I really want to encourage GMs to use USAK.I know there's "How to GM" material out there still that tells people to contact Ken Lowe if the want to start a game, but that's not USAK. I will mentor, train, shadow... anything to get more GMs using the judge for their games as long as they fill and complete.
The math is real simple. It costs just over $1000 a year to run the server. If there are 250 players, the average cost per user is $4 a year. If there were twice as many players the average cost per player would be half that. The only way to double the number of active players is to double the number of games.
I run the USAK house games so that players can always find a forming game in the most popular configurations on USAK. That means USAK doesn't lose players because they can't find a game when they want to join one. Retaining players better and having a "go to" judge to find a forming game should make it easier for GMs to fill their games quickly. So the house games seed a positive spiral. It will work better for forming games once I have more game information on the listing page, but it's already been great for finding replacements. The average time to replace an opening in a novice game on USAK went from 10 days to 1 day when I placed the replacement positions on the USAK game list page. I think I can have a comparable improvement for forming games with the next improvement.
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