Geocties now has an hourly limit of 4.2MB. Say if a release is 700KB that a maximum of 6 per hour, excluding browsing. Which is generally not bad overall. But what when a release comes up there is usualy a much higher numbe of people visiting than usual, and hence higher browsing and downloading in a shorter period of time. Then the 4.2MB might be a pain.

Could just wait and see, but it’s probably time to go to change host anyway, shouldn’t keep using “kostatus” in the address for the game.

Tripod is the best alternative I see, but while Geocities works out to be bout 3GB bandwidth p/m (though with the evil hourly limit), Tripod is 1GB p/m (but without the evil limit).

I propose we change the name. Several reasons.

1. The “woods” theme hasn’t been used very much, and I don’t think it will be anytime soon, if ever.
2. “Woods of Torbin” is a bit too long of a name for people to type into an address bar. Having http://www.geocities.com/woodsoftorbin/ is a bit silly, so the acronym wot is used, but this acronym is too common. Googling for it would give you millions of result and no sign of our game anywhere near the top. Even googling for “WoT game” would give you something else - The Wheel of Time.
3. Using “WoT” in the URL is too ambiguous (not to mention them being taken most of the time), using “kostatus” as I do now is a bit silly.
4. Adding “RL” for Roguelike at the end of the name would not make sense in this issue. WoTRL? YUK!

So as much I have gotten used to and attached the name Woods of Torbin and WoT, I think we will need a change.

I haven’t thought up a definite replacement yet, it’s hard. But here are a few proposals (I am not too warmed up to either one actually):

• Torbin
• TorbinRL
• Kostellas (Kostatus+Atholas=Kostellas, a bit ridiculous though… And sort of like naming a city “Stalingrad” after yourself)
• Something in a foreign language typed up in English. I like Papaki’s name.

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