Re: New PBM Announcement

From: scrtdrgn@ezl.com (Erik Stephans)

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <59899682wnr@antsnest.demon.co.uk>, tim@antsnest.demon.co.uk says...

>I'd love to hear the justification for that charge, paying for the honour of of
>being allowed
>to play a game (as opposed to paying for the turns) oddly enough isn't on my top
> 10 list of
>reasons to try a new game.

Then don't. Setting up a player's position isn't as easy as just writing
 their name down & starting to charge them for turns.  The goverment,
 starting population, starting popularity, resources, initial military,
 etc all have to be set up, and this doesn't even take into account a player
 that wishes to create his own race, character classes, etc. And this doesn't
 even take into account the time it takes to actually setup the bookkeeping
 aspect. You're not paying for the "honor" of playing the game, but for the
 time it takes to set-up your initial position.
 I've already said I'd send out the rules (which include the set-up sheet),
 but I'm not wasting my time setting up players that don't really want to
 play. Most other commercial PBM's charge a set-up fee, and $10-$15 is a
 reasonable fee.  Maybe when I get enough players I'll remove the set-up
 fee, but until then it's there, and if you don't want to pay it, you don't
 have to play the game.

Erik Stephans
        President, Black Pyramid Games

References

Re: New PBM Announcement
scrtdrgn@ezl.com (Erik Stephans)
Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New PBM Announcement
Tim Lomas <tim@antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: New PBM Announcement
scrtdrgn@ezl.com (Erik Stephans)
Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New PBM Announcement
Tim Lomas <tim@antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Sun, 15 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000