Please keep things positive. Best advise I believe is to try out different sites. Find what works well for you. If you don't like it, don't go back and try another site. Nothing says you only have to play on 1 site. At one time, I played on about 6 different turn-based game sites.
As many of you know, I stopped visiting Game Driven site awhile back ( http://coan.net/gd.html ), but I got an e-mail today from someone telling them they closed the game site down (of course after they accepted his $200 lifetime membership - which means the lifetime of the site, not his lifetime)
Anyway, like I said - I don't visit the site, I tried a few minutes ago and it did not work - so I was wondering if it is correct that the site is closed, or are they just closed for repairs or some other temporary reason.
coan.net: That site owner is a nut job anyway. Some people shouldn't be allowed to own pay to play sites especially people like that site owner. He was on one serious power trip when we all played there. If you didnt kiss his butt he kicked you out!!
rod03801: Well it had some cool ideas - players would join a colony - limit to the number in each colony - and in there, you could buy houses and stuff for the house with fake money you earn playing games and such.
But after that, things go south. First, they had like 20 games on th site, but a colony could only have access to like 10 games at a time - and the players of the colony had to vote for which games. (me, if I'm playing - I want access to all the games).
Of course this information is from when they first opened, not sure what they had done since.
Games - they had some of the regular - plus some unique ones like a card-poker game which was pretty fun - basically it was a single player game, but made into a 2-player game where each play their own game - highest score wins. Um... I think their battleboat game was interesting - with different boats/tanks & different backgrounds. Um.... plus some of the "regular" games like chess and such.. can't remember.
Had some cool ideas, but I think the owners idea was to have a community site that just happened to have a few games - and did not want a "game site" so could care less about concerns - like mine about wanting to play all the games not just a limited selection. In my opinion, if they focused on both - they would have gained a lot of turn based game players.... well that and if the owner wasn't such a .......... well, you can fill in the blank.
rod03801: Well I'm still curious - isn't there any players on here that also played there? If so, are they closed for good - or is it just hardware issues or something where people can't connect.