Re: Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

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Re: Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

Honestly, if the person was really that annoyed, they would have just left and found another group to join.  the fact that they didn't tells me that they were just using your lack of experience to troll you.

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Re: Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

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Re: Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

@3, thanks for the explanation. I talked about this on the Skype group, and they said the same thing. WE even tested it, and that is exactly how it works. If the creator leaves, the second person in line gets hosting duties, but the party still uses the parameters set up by the person who originally created it eg. number of turns, the game list etc.You know, the only reason this never occurred to me was that I don't do online games at all, other than CP. Perhaps if I had, this would be a second nature idea, but right now this idea is a bit, well not mind-blowing, but I guess it's still a little wild to me.I mean it makes perfect sense, but when I started with CP, the central server was not a thing yet, and when it did become a thing I didn't really understand it so I didn't use it much at first.Same thing happened with Skype actually. Back in the good 'ol days of Skype 3.8, the host's Internet connection was responsible for holding a conference call together, at least that's what I was lead to believe. If the host dropped, everybody did. But as Skype's interface changed, I didn't use it as much. Now I'm getting back into it, and am told that the creator of the group has little bearing on the call quality or stability now. I don't really know what to believe in that case atm, Skype has always been a little convoluted in certain things to me underneath its clunky but simple interface.So yeah, judging by how Nidza puts it, I guess I have a lot to learn when it comes to how online things traditionally work. Not surprising really, at least I know what's going on!

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Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

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Solved! a bizarre, infuriating, wtf Crazy Party experience

Edit: I've figured out what happened here thanks to post 3, so this topic is little more than a log of past experiences and perplexities. Original text is below for posterity's sake, but  you don't have to read it or respond if you don't want.Original post starts here:Hi all,I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not out to start throwing flames. The real purpose of this topic is to discuss a technical goof-up that makes no sense to me. Ideally I would keep it short and sweet, but I'm so flustered right now, both because of the technical weirdness and the unpleasant exchange it brought on, so I can't help but detail everything that happened, even the unimportant stuff lolShort version: I was waiting in the central server for a minigames party to start, and after leaving the game window for a few minutes, I came back to find out I was actually hosting a party myself. Having only hosted once or twice, I had no idea what was actually going on, and paid a price for my naivety. I only found out what truly happened after looking at the speech log, and even now I can't quite figure out how it happened. I'm desperately trying to piece this together for my own sanity.A much more in-depth account is below.It all started when I tried to do a recording for a friend to show how Crazy Party works online, and why I enjoy playing with other players. This was going to be a private recording I only share with him.So I connected to a minigames party. At first there were only two people other than me. Then there were three, then there were four. Then one left. This is pretty busy, I told myself. So I decided to get the recording ready. I left the game in that state, as I alt tabbed and went into Reaper to set things up. As I did this, I could still hear people coming and going, since Crazy Party does play those sounds even when you're in another window. If I heard the start sound, my plan was to start the recording real quick and then alt tab back to the game.So about two minutes later, I'm fully ready and am sitting there waiting for them to start. A few messages come in, but I don't read them because I figure they're just deciding whether to wait or not.Curiously, I checked the player list, and I found that there were only 2 players. Me, and someone I hadn't seen before.  Wow, I thought to myself. Did everyone really clear out like that? I've never seen that happen before.I assumed the player I now saw waiting was the host. I could've sworn he wasn't the host when I first joined, but whatever. I'm easily distracted from remembering names, so I wasn't going to question my memory. I casually asked, "What's going on?" And that's when it unraveled...It started with these messages. "God. Start! S, t, a, r, t!" Sheepishly, I said I don't think the host is here. I've been in online parties before, I know the host can't just disappear and that the host has to be the one to start the party. But what else was I to think?"Oh my God," he responded. "Hit control enter!" Completely perplexed, I did as he said and the game started. Then he proceeded to yell at me because I apparently didn't have auto-enter key enabled... Buddy I did. I even checked to make sure.I already didn't like how this was going, he didn't seem to have patience. He clearly was confident he knew what should be done, and I was an idiot for not doing it. But being a good sport, I decided to stick it out. Maybe I was reading it wrong.During the first game, he asked me if I was trying to infuriate him. My fingers were tantalizingly close to slamming alt F4 and then desperately trying to forget the incident. But I didn't. Instead, between games, I told him, admittedly in a rushed message full of typos, that I'd never had to use control enter to start a game in my history of online CP games, so I'd appreciate it if he was a little more patient. Or something like that.I was cooking up some really snide comment to send right before the last game ended, something he wouldn't have time to respond to. Mind you, I normally would think that is a horribly immature thing to do, but I was ticked off, and those of you who actually know me (I know most of you don't, but speaking to those who do), will know that I'm not naturally a snide person and I hardly ever have a mean thing to say to anyone. so anything I could've said would probably not have been that bad.As it turns out, he beat me to the punch. Just as I was deciding not to go through with the snide comment, he took the opportunity to send one right before the last game ended and the party terminated. The message was something along the lines of "Got ya good, n00b!" Though tbh that's only my best guess; the message had more typos than accuracies. I've got to hand it to him though, I barely registered the message receive sound; it cut off too quick, so he definitely had his timing down or something.I'd