I agree with everything you said in post 117, WW, and I apologize if I made you feel I was lampooning you. I was not. Them? Sure.
I also could have been clearer that I don't expect the developers to be there on the weekends, but I do expect a skeleton crew that can fix the fact that no one can log on, especially when the problem appears to keep repeating over multiple days or multiple weekends. Having said that, I do feel that if the log on issues are related to something in the code from a patch or update, then the developers need to be there on the weekends fixing that, or someone that is there needs to have the authority/ability to revert to a previous snaphot of the software to remove that problem temporarily, until the developers get back in on Monday.
I acknowledge that I have once again forgotten that this is not Goko, this is another group of folks taking their shot at implementing Dominion. So saddling MF with legacy angst over their predecessor's ineptitude is indeed unfair. I don't even know if MF chose to use any Goko code, or whether they started from scratch. However, the facts are:
1) They've had a long time, and it is still not working
2) Other people had a long time, and apparently gave up
My inference from those two facts is that one of two things is true: a) It really is so difficult that extraordinary resources are required, or b) the two groups of people attempting it have been incompetent in one or more of the many possible activities required (fiscal management, allocation of resources, hiring talent, accurate evaluation of the scope of the project, procurement of raw materials, writing actual code, etc.). I guess a third option is that they just don't give a flip and aren't really trying, but I tend not to dwell on that.
Given that a single individual has done it, and done it well, we know it can be done, and done without extraordinary resources. That would tend to invalidate inference "a". There are sites that reliably handle , day in and day out, an extremely large number of players logging on and playing games that are much more resource intensive than this attempted implementation of Dominion. That alone leads me to believe that inference "b" is correct. If so, the situation should be correctable, but someone has not figured that out, or can't or won't change anything. I fully expect that MF will eventually abandon their attempt as well.
Until that happens, then at least during intermittent server failures, I'll continue making fun of Making Fun. It is something to do while I can't play Dominion online.