Re: Mobius???

From: tuff@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoff Tuffli)

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 18:48:25 +0000

In article williams@unccsun.uncc.edu (Dewey Williams) writes:
>	Has anyone heard of or played the PBM game MOBIUS?  I was one of
>many ply-testers for the game, which was ran by the designer for about
> a year.  The game was then sold to a commercial PBM company ( ? Tiger, or
>Flying Buffalo).  It was a very good space game, with equal amounts of
>economic/diplomacy/combat situations.
>	I also wonder if a game such as this could be played by e-mail
>without stepping on any copyright toes.  I have my original set of rules.
>Anyone want to give an opinion?  (do I have to ask?)
>
>Dewey Williams

Flying Buffalo is indeed the company it was sold to. I've played
it once, and it is indeed a superb space conquest game, though quite
complex.

A friend of mine mentioned speaking to one of the owners of FB and
apparently what happened is twofold: first, the person who FB gave to run
the turns started slacking off, with the turns farther and farther apart.
Second, while it is a very good game, the reality is that games of that
complexity simply do not attract the same player-base as simpler PBM games,
and that this, combined with the turnaround problems, accounted for its
loss of popularity.

To the best of my knowledge, Flying Buffalo still runs it, and my
information is several months out of date,so it is totally possible that
they have resolved the turnaround difficulties I hear about.

Geoff Tuffli
	tuff@ellis.uchicago.edu

New World
	Editor

References

Mobius???
williams@unccsun.uncc.edu (Dewey Williams)
Tue, 01 Jun 1993 16:40:14 +0000