Re: Legends; you've peaked my interest

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1993 02:53:52 +0000

mebonar@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu:
>Legends sounds interesting.

We've piqued your interest, have we?

>How much do turns cost?

It's up to you.  You can play a toe-in-the-water position (a single
ultra-powerful character with one faithful sidekick) for $5.  You can
play a major position, with multiple characters, armies, locations,
for anything up to a maximum of $24.  (There are different sized
turn-sheets available, and the larger ones allow you to issue more orders.)
Many players take the first option initially, and do their initial learning
(and make their initial mistakes) with a small position.

>What is the turn around time on turns?

The game doesn't run on a schedule, so there's no such thing as a
late turn.  The only limitation is that at least two weeks must pass
between turns.

>How much time does a moderate position take?

A few hours.  It depends on how much time you want to put into it,
how much diplomacy you engage in, etc.

>How long does a normal game take (how many turns)?

Two to three years, probably.

>Are new games opening up regularly or do new players get
>		stuck in already started games?

Both.  New games open up fairly regularly (though it often takes a
few months from the time you send in your setup until the game is
properly launched), or you can enter any established game.  Players
entering established games are given bonuses to skills and characteristics
to partly even things out.

>How fast does the game progress?

I'm not sure how different this is from "how long does it take".
Progress is quite gradual, at least at the start.

>How much attention is required?  (ie if some of your moves are
>non-optimal does it basically doom you to being a weak	pawn from then on?)

The game is quite forgiving of such moves, partly by virtue of its
very size.  Two hundred players start off on an 10,000-province map.
That said, it's really easy to mess up any specific plan through minor
order-entry errors.

>Do most people start as part of a group of friends?
>Do you need friends to get anywhere in the game? (by friends I
>mean an group that starts the game together and totally cooperates.)

No.  Each game has a number of factions contending for the victory
(with up to twenty-five players in each faction), and once you decide
on a faction (which needn't be for a while), the other players in
the faction will be your allies.  (It's a group victory.)  If you
enter the game as a Hero, though, you'll want to link up with a larger
neighboring position as soon as possible:  A Hero's high-level spell-casting
and/or military capabilities with a ruler's resources and armies make an
obvious alliance.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
   Go alike, yet each believes his own
		--Alexander Pope

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Legends; you've peaked my interest
mebonar@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu (MsciDave)
Mon, 08 Mar 1993 23:22:29 +0000