Re: Odyssey vs. Legends

From: "Greg Berger" <gberger@arcadis.be>

Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:00:00 +0000

I have played Odyssey since the first module about four years ago, and have
been in one game or another constantly since then.  To say I am addicted
would be a bit of an understatement.  I could go on all day, but won't,
about what I *like* about the game system.

However, to answer the direct question, what makes Odyssey *not* the perfect
game system is the lack of an automated user interface.  To give a simple
example of the amount of data involved:  I play on a faction (the current
module is for 6 factions of 6-12 players each) of 12 players in one of my
current games.  We each get a turn report every two weeks of about 300-500K
in ascii text format.  We are each running 20-30 characters, and an equal or
greater number of armies and locations.  And each of us is performing
actions each turn that affect the game world, whether it is using markers on
the map, bashing monster dens, conquering locations, or just reconning and
mapping.  You really can't hope to keep up with the game without carefully
digesting each of the twelve turns, a process which took me several hours
each turn, and included manually transferring map data to an Excel
spreadsheet I use as a map.  (One of my allies has written some tools to
automatically read turn files into Atlantic Enquirer, but I have not been
able to get it to work for me.)

The guys at Gamer's Den are working on a GUI, so I have hope this great game
will become even greater in the near future.

bergjeff@erols.com wrote in message <6jd8v0$l6s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Is there anyone out there who has played Odyssey as well as other PBM
games?
>What don't you like about Odyssey that other PBM games have? Why is Odyssey
>not the perfect PBM game of its type?
>
>
>I want to know.
>
>                      - Jeff
>
>
>
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Odyssey vs. Legends
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Wed, 13 May 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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