PlanetsCentral

Damned, I noticed this thread much too late.

I expected as well, the the game is somehow finshed, likewise happened in Pleiades6 recently. This incontinuous bahviour of the automated host is really confusing and may result in avoidable mistakes.

Can't we simply declare a game to be at it's end?

I'm not sure what you want to say?

PlanetsCentral rolls a die to determine if a game ends. If I say "the game ends in turn 80 flat", people max out their bases in turn 79 as if there is no tomorrow (because there actually is no tomorrow). This doesn't give a good view of the strength of an empire. Making the end a little more uncertain attempts to weaken that effect a little, because you still must be able to defeat someone steamrolling you by turn 82.

This is probably uncommon among VGAP hosts, but you can get used to it

I have tuned the parameters to end games a little faster than originally configured. However, nobody asked to completely abolish it, so I kept it.

However, if needed, the server also supports a classic "end in turn X flat" condition, or even ending a game manually.

--Stefan