Re: Legends

From: phy6drhj@ast.leeds.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article H0x@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU, gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <griffithD9nsDA.6Mn@netcom.com>,
> Jim Griffith <griffith@netcom.com> wrote:
> >dstallard@aol.com (DStallard) writes:
> >
> >>From everything I've heard, the Legends game penalizes you for doing well
> >>in the game by charging you more.  Is this true?
> >
> >No more than any other company.  They "penalize" you by causing you to want
> >to issue more orders, which cost you more money.
>

This is a typical "customer" point of view.  Perhaps you should think
a little more about what goes into running a PBM game.  See below.
Yes, I am a customer, NOT a GM.

> But many other games don't charge you per order.
>
> That's one area that PBEM really shines in, since you don't have to
> pay a typist to type in each order.

Boy, Legends really can't win, can they.

As your position grows you ultimately NEED/WANT to give more orders.
This is the same in ANY game that involves any facet of Growth.
They used to get moaned at by the players for having a ranged of fixed
sized turnsheets at fixed prices.  This meant that when you "moved up"
to a new sheet you often had lots of order block that you did not use
but were still paying for!  The game was capped by the largest size
order sheet so you couldn't buy a win.

To answer this criticism, Midnight games have developed and electronic
turn editor (so you can submit by e-mail, disk or paper) but you only
pay for the orders you USE.  This was done in answer to player pressure.
The game is still capped so you still can't buy a win.

If the game does go completely electronic there is a bit of a question
mark about whether you should have to pay more.  No larger printouts and
postage to pay.  This is not the case and probably never will be with
Legends.  I suspect a large fraction if not the majority do not and will
not have e-mail.  As long as you have postage costs a larger turn will
cost more.

There also has been some moaning about the price per order.  Do not
forget that Legends is a complex game.  New scenarios are being
developed all the time and the code is being upgraded.  They have to
pay the staff to do that so think a little bit before you start
comparing it too PBEM games that are free.  Most I suspect can't
match the complexity of Legends.  Even games like VGA planets, that
makes its development money out of registration fees does not have the
depth that I get from doing a Legends turn.

Dean

References

Re: Legends
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Legends
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000