Re: MEPBM - two week email games?

From: RedEyeJoe <mrredeye@algonet.se>

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

> 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.

A two week game can be to fast too.
I'm playing 2-week Email in every game and sometimes if the teammates
doesn't have time or don't wanna respond in time it can be very itchy
with communication.

I can only imagine how a 1-week email would be....

Anyhow, I can imagine that GSI would refuse to run a 2-week Email game
because every game company around the world who runs ME does that.

> 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.

True, those who haven't email have to either call or use the company to
communicate.
You understand how much that is lost in info because of that.

RedEyeJoe

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
Re: MEPBM - two week email games?
Eric Myerson <eric.myerson@worldnet.att.net>
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000