This is a weird one. Has anyone considered running what you might call a TWGS VPS? It would be a situation where anybody can host one or several games on a server run by someone else, paying a fee to do so. Each game op would have admin access to their games. I'm not sure if you can actually create/delete games from the telnet admin interface though. The so-called VPS operator could specify rules to be followed for all games hosted on that server no matter who admins them, and each admin could specify rules relevant to some or all of their games.
I really wish there were a Linux version of TWGS. I'd probably run a game server if I could stick it on my Linode VPS. But I have absolutely zero experience with Wine. I guess one thing I could do is to try to get some BBS software running under Dosemu or something, and run 1.03D or 2.0 as a door, although that'd only be single-user. I don't have reg codes for any version though, and the older versions aren't worth playing if they're not registered.

Unfortunatly I had to remove the twgsop from the twgsop class and return them to a normal user.

I would recomend extreame caution to anyone granting gameop status to any user as they (in my near 20 years experience of being a sysop) generally have alter motives.

Unfortunatly I had to remove the twgsop from the twgsop class and return them to a normal user.

I would recomend extreame caution to anyone granting gameop status to any user as they (in my near 20 years experience of being a sysop) generally have alter motives.

That is not an isolated problem. There are some strange gameops around.

I know of a gameop who considers using photons to deprive players of turns to be cheating, even though banged games have photons enabled. Stock Missile Frigates are for sale at SD. I guess the op thinks a phot invasion of an unshielded planet with a stock MF would work.

That same gameop had an MBBS game running a month back (for all I know still does) but considers megarob to be cheating .

As the developer, I have no problem with anyone running multiple instances of the server for personal use, but only one instance for actual game use. So you can have your own instance for testing, devving your races, etc, but only one instance where games are being played. That's the official policy.

I have definitely attempted to add support for guest-ops on game servers. An op with password access to a particular game should be able to do almost anything to manage that game. I haven't figured out an easy way to allow import/export of TWAs yet, however. But yeah, I'm perfectly fine with a gameop providing other gameops with access to games on their servers. In fact, I think that's a great service to provide, because not everyone who wants to host a game has a server where they can host a game.

If there are any security issues related to per-game admin access, please report it. A player with access to a single game should not have enough access to disrupt any other games on that server.