Re: Empire Deluxe

From: kfagans@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Kenn R. Fagans)

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Kjetil Friden <cezton@nvg.unit.no> wrote:

>Ade (agiles@melb.alexia.net.au) wrote:
>: G'day All,
>
>: I'm looking for people to play by mail the game Empire Deluxe.
>: Basically we ftp the saved game to each other after each turn, it's very
>: simple.  If your interested mail me for further details.

Get in touch with Dave Bott (david.bott@Dartmouth.edu).  He maintains a
list of PBeM Players for Empire Deluxe.

>Empire Deluxe is not well suited for such play.  I have played this for
>some time, and we got tired long before we met.  A game can take 500+
>turns and imagine swapping the files 500 times, and waiting for the file
>to go through 6 players!

True, True ... it can be very frustrating ... a couple of things that
help a great deal:

Keep to 2 or 3 players
	Roughly 50x50 maps
	Set production handicap at "Advantage 3"

if you have "faithful" players then 4 players seems to be OK, but 5 or 6
seems to be almost impossible.

>Another thing is that it is easy to cheat ...

Cheating seems to be minimal ... consists mostly of people exploiting the
"I'll just keep replaying the turn" variety.  Not a big deal, but you
should be sensitive to the possibility.
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References

Empire Deluxe
Ade <agiles@melb.alexia.net.au>
Wed, 08 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000