First time I emailed him, he got the "earthempires.com" shortcut back online but the bots didn't come back. Second time I emailed him the bots came back and ran turns (22:05) but then immediately went offline again. I emailed him a third time about it, nothing yet in reply but he's probably tired of hearing from me by now. In any case, running a techer feels like betting on the bots being up and I'd say I lost that bet this round.
They're back up and running, but they were down multiple occasions this reset which led to me emailing qzjul a lot. He resolved the issue after the third email. It's too bad they were down so much this set, but I'm happy that the admin here is so responsive to email, even if I keep bothering him over and over again, haha.
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