Re: -- MEDIEVAL STRATEGY --

From: s337186@student.uq.edu.au (Bradley Jayakody)

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Carlos Gustavo wrote:

> You again! Hello my dear friend!
>
>       I was starting to get disappointed about your lack of combativeness...

Hmmm, if I took all my time giving responses to SPAM, there ain't enough hours in
the day.  I haven't replied, cos I did what I said I would do, put your heading
(the one you usually used) in my kill script, so I wouldn't have to read about
your game, or anyone else complaining about your game.

> after all it is a requirement of all strategy masters, isn�t it my
> little Fuhrer?

Strategy master?  Are we arguing about your policy about continued posting, or
on a different topic altogther?

> Now, I will tell you a secret: every day about 250000 people join the
> internet, some searching for knowledge, others saying idiocies (yes! you
> are holding a mirror my friend!), others trying to find new friends,
> others playing games, etc...

Hmm, and let's see how many more "reputable" games advertise.  I haven't
seen an add for VGA planets in years or an add for the new Xpace game more
than once or twice, you on the other hand I have seen about 20 times in
the space of a month.

> I believe that one in a thousand has the unfortunate idea of choosing
> the same groups as you. So, that makes about 1750 a week (250*7=1750 -
> 250 because 1 in 1000 is the same proportion as 250

Well now, if, as I original suggested to you, you put your game in someone
like Lindahl's site, when someone was looking for a game to play they would
look there.  And Lindahl's site gets enough advertising, non of it as
repetitive as yours or even as annoying.

> in 250000; 7 because there are seven days in a week; do you
> understand?).
> I think 1750 new people in a week deserve an add showing a game they
> might (or might not) want to play.

Hmm, so now missing out on a month or so of gameplay is so horrendous a
crime that you will go straight to jail, do not pass go.  On the other
hand you are annoying all those people who are already connected on the
net...wonder who is in the majority?

> And I think one add per week doesn�t hurt anybody...

How many PBM games are out there?  Couple of hundred?  Okay let's see each
of them post once a week(though I think your weeks are about 2 days long),
wow that won't piss anyone off.

> As a last thought, consider this message... it took me about fifteen
> minutes to write. Think with me, my little fuhrer, if there were more

No, you just have no life.

> people nagging me about my posts, do you think I would burn fifteen
> minutes of my time with your majesty?

No, there are people who would have just auto put you in kill script for
e-mail kill.  I just killed your original heading, as while I don't care
about this game, I did feel inclined to listen to anything else you may
write about.  Also with all that SPAM out there you think every netactive
person has time to respond to all of 'em?  I regularly read rec.games.pbm,
which is normally a rather small group, so that's why I complained.

> How is it to feel alone? What do you think about someone who criticises
> a game before giving it a try? How this co-relates with you being the
> owner of some games of the same type?

Hmm.  Well I've run a MUD before as well as a hume moderated game.  On
both occassion's I put up an ad once and got a reasonable reponse.
Why would I try the game when I disagree with the GameMaster's policy on
mass postings.  It ain't my idea of an understand GM.  Alone?  No, just
one of the few people who can be bothered to complain about this SPAM.

Word of Mouth is worth alot more than SPAM advertising, and you ain't
getting much of word of mouth advertising.

And why every time I have a whinge you try and get me to play?  I did
initially try and get the game, web site was down first few times I tried,
then I logged in, took way too long to start up, and I gave up.  If you
can't even maintain a stable web site, how the heck you going to maintain
a PBEM game?

Bog, to sum it up, you just suck, and no amount of me or anyone else
whingeing is going to change your little mind.

References

-- MEDIEVAL STRATEGY --
Carlos Gustavo <lord.ubik@mail.telepac.pt>
Sat, 05 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: -- MEDIEVAL STRATEGY --
s337186@student.uq.edu.au (Bradley Jayakody)
Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: -- MEDIEVAL STRATEGY --
Carlos Gustavo <lord.ubik@mail.telepac.pt>
Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000