Re: BSE (USS bashing)

From: btb4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRADLEY T BRAUN)

Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 23:18:11 +0000

In article <CnM854.MtD@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (
Greg Lindahl) writes:
>In article <1994Apr2.025439.27334@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>,
>Bradley T Braun <btb4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> wrote:
>
>>If you are playing the US version, don't worry.  Things always seem worse than
>>they really are.  Large, protracted conflicts are unusual in this game,
>>although combat of some sort can usually be found by those interested in doing
>>so.
>
>Spoken by a USS player -- you guys certainly know where the percentage
>in war is, or at least you had it figured out in 1984-1985. At that
>point, however, the moderators had a vested interest in discouraging
>general mayhem, because running battles was very expensive for them
>relative to other types of activities.
>
You should see the new system, instituted in '89 (as I recall).  The way
battles now run, your enemy can find out about the battle and send in "battle
response turns" to send in more ships/anti-boarding troops.  The fact that, if
you are planning to get into a war, a single battle will often take
several weeks, with expensive weekly turns and battle reports, and that you'll
need a large reserve fleet for "battle response turns" of your own, puts a
real damper on all but the most committed of adversaries.

BTW- for those of you who don't get the smug USS reference, we were in a major
war about ten years ago that effectively demolished what had been the most
powerful affiliation in the game, the USS.  "If you go war, a great
affiliation will fall...."

--
Brad Braun
btb4@lehigh.edu
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