Re: MEPBM Advice

From: cleavr@aol.com (Cleavr)

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

A good way to go your first time in the game is to find someone else and
join a game together.  If they are experianced, so much the better.  You
will get more enjoyment out of having someone to bounce ideas off of, and
thus the game will be more fun.  As to your question of which scenario,
its really a matter of personal preference.  Players having 'vast sums of
knowledge' is a fact of life in both scenarios, riddles and encounters
being the main exception (but catching up fast in 2950).  Another reason
to join as a team is that your game will generally experience fewer
dropped positions, since groups of players tend to support each other
through rough times.  Its an empty feeling when you are doing ok, and you
realize 3 or 4 of your opponents stopped playing a few turns ago -- now
you know your team will win, it doesn't matter how well you play from here
on out, and you are going to spend $6.50 a turn to play out an already
decided fate.   If the 1650 scenario interests you slightly more,  choose
that one and give it your best shot!  As a veteran of more than 15 games
completed, I think you will find fostering cooperation among your
teammates as much (or more) fun than running your own turns......Good luck
and good hunting!

Russ

References

MEPBM Advice
kgp8d@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Keith G. Parker)
Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000