Re: Conquest and Destiny

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 22:04:55 +0000

In article <3cmbai$aof@newsbf01.news.aol.com>,
PlayrOfGms <playrofgms@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <3cc70c$h6q@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, playrofgms@aol.com
>(PlayrOfGms) writes:
>
>gl8f@fermi.clas.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl)
>In response to your letter to me:

Please do not post my email.
Please do not post my email.
Please do not post my email.
Please do not post my email.
Thank you.

> 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.

The game was announced on the net recently. The rules are available
for FTP. A short description of the game is on the PBM List, which
gets posted monthly. As you can see, it's fairly well advertised.

If you had posted a message saying "Hi! Does anyone want to talk about
Conquest and Destiny?" and give a _short_ description, that would be
fine. It's been tried 2 or 3 times before and nothing came of it, but
you never know.

> 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.

I do appreciate your honesty.

>>>    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.

Start counting: NukeWar, Star Web, Universe II, Beyond the Stellar
Empire, Realms of Sword and Thunder, Fillet Wars, Moebius II, Stars of
the Dark Well, Hypercruiser, and I'm sure I've forgotten two or three.
There are many folks who have played many more games than I. My point
was that other games have a level of depth and detail which go beyond
C&D. There are also other games of similar size, mostly open-ended,
but even a few closed-ended.

>>> If you like, mention my name, I'll get free credit.
[...]
>    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?

You didn't. But one benefit to you for your posting is that if folks
mention your name to Dan, you stand to profit. That is frowned upon on
Usenet, and I would appreciate it if you avoid it. This is obviously a
minor case, but your acceptable use policy (AUP) for America OnLine
frowns on this kind of thing.

>    Fortunately for all of us, no one is in a position to decide what the
>net is for, including you.

I don't force anyone to do anything, nor did I make up the etiquette
that the net runs under.

>    I said send all flames to me, but this is nothing but flash and smoke.

And I did, and then you posted my email. Please don't do so again.

References

Conquest and Destiny
playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)
Sat, 10 Dec 1994 12:30:04 +0000
Re: Conquest and Destiny
playrofgms@aol.com (PlayrOfGms)
Wed, 14 Dec 1994 08:45:06 +0000