Until Fizzer gets on it, I think it will continue to go mostly-on and sometimes-off. It seems that something's building up, then hits a critical point, and then the server recovers. Like some log file over-flowing, or a memory leak causing something to restart occasionally, or something like that. My hunch is that it won't fatally ruin a tournament, just be an annoying nuisance occasionally, like an old TV you sometimes have to knock on its side to get the reception to kick back in.
[Just a reminder, this has been occurring for at least 6-8 hours already. I doubt it's going to suddenly make the servers go kaput.]
huddyj: i appreciate your contribution but i think it will get pretty boring pretty fast, everyone already knows how to play that template and the map is quite small so we'll just be seeing the same games over and over again. i could be wrong ofcourse, but that's what my intuition tells me.
yeah, think so, there was also a template suggested by gnuffles a few months back on ea&o with proper strategic settings which we never used although it was polled twice, guess i can look it up and add it to the poll list aswell.