Re: Ongoing Strategy Games.

From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 15:01:42 +0000

From article <1993Jul8.112848.9101@cm.cf.ac.uk>, by pmf@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers):
]
] Why not try doing it the way the Legends games do? Give the players a list
] of possible orders as long as your arm. Require parts of the to be written
] in a particular order (Force manipulation then Transfer and Training then
] General). Have some quite complex order formats.
]
] With this method controlling a small position is easy, its a short task to
] check everything you have written. When you get to `big' positions and have
] 200ish orders to write you are bound to make mistakes which usually foul
] you up. eg. Our faction leader in RTI 3 (UK) was going to transfer a Priest
] into a force belonging to me, he wrote the wrong Character number on the
] order, it failed, the priest then left with the force he wasn't supposed to
] be in any more and ended up miles away. The position was so big he didn't
] have any spare movement orders (the number of movement orders doesn't scale
] linearly with the size of the order sheet) so the priest is now on his way
] back, approximately 3 months later!
]
The trouble with this method is that it is not very fun. I generally believe
that PBM games should not be won or lost based on typos in orders.

References

Re: Ongoing Strategy Games.
pmf@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:28:46 +0000

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Re: Ongoing Strategy Games.
pmf@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:28:46 +0000