Re: Suggestions for games?

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

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 21:08:40 +0000

In article <griffithCzFyuF.68x@netcom.com>,
Jim Griffith <griffith@netcom.com> wrote:

>I can suggest one game that you might enjoy - Phoenix.

I know gamers like to recommend games that they themselves play in,
but in this case the game you suggest only meets 2 of their 4 criteria.

>	- the only turn entry errors are your own.
>	- emailed turns, emailed turn results.
>	- it's pretty cheap - $2.50 per turn or so

These are pretty normal for all-email games. Not having to pay a
typist means the company's costs are much lower.

>adequately describe to you how nice it is to be able to *guarantee* that
>nothing will go wrong on your turn, unlike Legends, where you sit there
>hoping and praying that you didn't screw up or forget something, so that
>you have to wait two weeks to fix it.

That sounds nice, but it's not possible in many game systems, because
you're interacting with other players, or the actions of other players
affect your turn, or parts of your move depends on map features that
another player told you about but the turn checker doesn't know you
know about. In such games, syntax checking is about the most you can
hope for.

What do other folks thing about a forecaster? Is it possible for the
games that you play, and do you make a significant number of errors
that it would catch?

References

Suggestions for games?
minnotte@stat0.stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)
Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:36:39 +0000
Re: Suggestions for games?
griffith@netcom.com (Jim Griffith)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 02:27:49 +0000

Referenced By

Suggestions for games?
minnotte@stat0.stat.rice.edu (Michael Minnotte)
Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:36:39 +0000
Re: Suggestions for games?
griffith@netcom.com (Jim Griffith)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 02:27:49 +0000