How do you administer your games?

[Mint Berry Crunch]

Do you easily find reliable players who volunteer to admin your game?

What about technical stuff - let's say you're on holiday and your site is screwed up, what mitigation or back up plan do you have?

[G7470]

I wouldn't say "easy", especially if you're somebody who has trouble with trusting other people to run your game. However, before your game even gets going, you should always have a couple of reliable people to back you up just in case. It's just like going on vacation and you want someone to watch your house for you. You don't want a random stranger watching your house, do you? Heck no! You get someone you can trust to keep an eye on things - which is basically what you would want as well to keep an eye on things as an admin while you're away.

As for technical stuff, the same rules apply - have some people to back you up technically so that the game just doesn't die while you're gone.

~G7470

[Mint Berry Crunch]

I'm presuming we are talking about friends helping you out here? Is there a possibly you could hire a contractor to look after it?

[G7470]

In the cases I mentioned, yes. I guess a possibility for that could be opened up, but personally, I would pick a friend to look after it over a contractor any day if I had the choice.

~G7470

[Mint Berry Crunch]

Yeah in my case I don't think I have friends who are free on demand.

[Veramys]

I had a few friends that I met on a game I played and we've been friends for years. When I coded my first game they are the ones that helped me release it. So we ran it together but I did all the coding.