Re: MEPBM - two week email games?

From: Eric Myerson <eric.myerson@worldnet.att.net>

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Mark G Jaede wrote:

> I would be curious, however, to hear GSI's reaction. I bet if they
> consistently offered 2-week email games the hobby would tend to
> segregate itself into email and postal games. Would that be good or
> bad?

I just sent them an email, haven't heard back from them yet.  They gave
one of their reasons for dropping the three-week games as "everybody has
email," which, while patently untrue, IS a reasonable observation.  I
know that email play facilitates diplomacy to a great extent, I too find
phone calls difficult and expensive.  One week turnaround just isn't
enough time to send your results to your teammates, receive reports from
them, digest it all, and post your order plans for comment.  Or is that
too much diplomacy?  I have not yet tried a two-week all postal game,
the only two week game I was in as a standby I played by email.

I think that it mmight just divide the middle-earth community into the
emails and snailmails, but with the ease of diplomacy through email, I
am not so sure that that is a bad thing.

--
Eric Myerson     eric.myerson@worldnet.att.net

"Faith and Reason are like a pair of shoes on your feet:  you can
travel farther with both than you can with either one alone.

--- Brother Ailwyn, Babylon 5: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

References

MEPBM - two week email games?
Eric Myerson <eric.myerson@worldnet.att.net>
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM - two week email games?
Mark G Jaede <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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MEPBM - two week email games?
Eric Myerson <eric.myerson@worldnet.att.net>
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM - two week email games?
Mark G Jaede <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000