Re: Conquest and Destiny

From: playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 08:45:06 +0000

In article <3cc70c$h6q@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, playrofgms@aol.com
(PlayrOfGms) writes:

gl8f@fermi.clas.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
In response to your letter to me:

>>    First, I would like to apologize in advance for any violations of
>>netiquette.
>
>It's fine to ask if others are interested in the game, but posting a
>hunk of the rules isn't very bright. The game was announced a while
>ago; the rules are available for ftp, and it's on my monthly list.

For starters, that "hunk" of the rules was nothing but a very small
part of the intro, less than 1K, which I posted because I thought that
people might want to have at least a little background, and why should I
muddy the water when the GM already did the work?  The entire rules file
runs around a meg of ASCII, I should post that instead?  And if the game
was announced when it first opened up, that was a year and a half ago.  I
think there might be just a few people that haven't been around that long.
 With the number of thinly veiled ads as so-called "responses", I thought
I might at least be honest.  Next time I'll get my friend to post a bogus
question, so I can give him a 100K response.

>>    C&D allows a level of depth and detail that no game I have ever seen
>>has ever matched.
>
>Then you haven't played many other games, I suspect.

Try again, I've been playing PBM's since snail mail was the only way
to play, and once every two weeks was a high speed game.  I wonder how
many you've actually played.

>> Still, what was the last time you played a game against
>>300 live opponents?
>
>Many PBM games are of this size.

And almost all of those compartmentalize the players into groups of
ten or so.  C&D doesn't.  You're all on the same playing field.  Also, I
have seen only a couple of games where the playing field was truly 3-D,
and those did not reach the level of detail that C&D does.
    To make that clear, C&D is based on 3x3x3 cubes, going down four
levels from quadrants to subsectors, with 531,441 subsectors, each of
which may contain 9 systems, which may contain up to three stars and 9
planets, which each may have up to 26 moons, and each planet has around a
dozen variables to it's basic makeup, with close to a hundred if it's been
developed.  Do you see why I said that there was a high detail level?

>> If you like, mention my name, I'll get free credit.
>
>Bzzt. Here's where you go really wrong. The net doesn't exist to get
>you free credit.

>-g

Okay, this was the one that frosted me.  Where in that statement did I
imply that the purpose of the net was to get me free credit?  While we're
on the subject of what the net is for, I think I could find a few that
don't think that it's for playing games at all.  I bet I could find a lot
that think it's not for the distribution of pornography.  I'll bet I could
even find some academic types that don't think it should be used for the
dissemination of idle chatter and personal opinion (After all, it did
start out as the ARPANET, for trading purely scientific information
between government funded labs).
    Fortunately for all of us, no one is in a position to decide what the
net is for, including you.  I made a post that was unmitigated
advertisement for a game I like very much, and didn't pretend that it was
for any purpose than to get more players so that I could have more fun.
If I also want to get a little free credit to play that game, why not?  I
do not run the game, and any free credit I get will be exactly that,
credit, not cash.
    I said send all flames to me, but this is nothing but flash and smoke.
 Do not make the mistake of thinking that just because someone is coming
from AOL, that they haven't played THIS game.

Dave

References

Conquest and Destiny
playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)
Sat, 10 Dec 1994 12:30:04 +0000

Referenced By

Conquest and Destiny
playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)
Sat, 10 Dec 1994 12:30:04 +0000