Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?

From: bampton@tyco.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <Pine.SGI.3.95L.980628181350.12402B-100000@tower.york.ac.uk> TK Whipp <tkw100@york.ac.uk> writes:

>On 27 Jun 1998, Howard the Energizer wrote:

>> A player shouldn't have their empire messed with by the GM/AI engine
>> until they lose it.

>my original post did distinguish between null orders and missed orders...
>I think its unusual to be unable to find time for a two line email!

Um, I can think of several (all of which I've seen/done)-
  ISP goes down.
  Delay in orders so you miss the deadline.
  Vacation/family emegrency.

If the GM accepts advacne orders, case 3 could be worked around, the
other two cases are beyond the player's ability to predict. I see the
beyond player influence cases for maybe 1% of the orders in a game
(i.e. once every several turns).

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References

Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
TK Whipp <tkw100@york.ac.uk>
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
bampton@tyco.cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GALAXY : How to handle dropped players ?
TK Whipp <tkw100@york.ac.uk>
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000