what can happen to a kickbot? Just.. ran out of juice?
It was on a server that got shut down. I don't think it ever got started up properly again.
I found the config files for it (RSA keypairs and the scripts that made it actually work) but it looks like I can't log in with it. LogMeIn must delete users that haven't logged in in a long time from their server (that's the only thing I can figure, there aren't any other status/error messages besides "failed" when it tries to connect to Hamachi. I can tell it to generate a new keypair and it works, so it's not like the linux client has stopped being able to connect).
I might try seeing if I can contact logmein and get them to transfer control of the networks to a different account (I would think I would be able to prove that I have control of the bot account since I have its RSA keypair and it was the admin of all of the networks).
Otherwise I'd suggest just making a new network when you need to set up a game. You can just delete it again afterwards.
Another option that might be a possible one would be setting up a different VPN server that we can directly control (openvpn is one that comes to mind, I'm not sure how well it would work for OP2 though). Are there really that many people though who can't play using netfix?