Re: Diplomacy rules ?

From: bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:29:42 +0000

Quincey Koziol <koziol@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes (in reply to Karel Driesen):

>	Also, possibly the reason that people play PBM games is because they
>_don't_ have access to the Internet with all of it's free PBEM games.

Well, I sincerely hope that this isn't the _only_ reason! :-)

For example, I  play  PBMs (besides PBEMs)  because  generally
(this doesn't mean _always_)  they  are more  complex; ie.  they offer
players a larger variety of rules, orders, and playing strategies.

Ok, there may be many PBMs with less rules than Diplomacy, for
example (which hasn't _that_ many,  compared with some PBMs  I  play);
however, I think  there is still a  greater variety of  PBMs to choose
from, and you may pick the one that you think it's worth its cost!

On PBEMs, you can  "afford" to play simple games  (they can be
lots  of fun, too!), as  they  are free...  and  there  are a few more
complex (I'm  thinking about Olympia, for instance),  and  you can try
them, too, for free.

So, even with access to the Internet, many may me playing PBMs
just because they _can_ offer more...

>	Personally, I believe that the overlap between people on the Internet
>and people of play PBM games is vanishingly small...although you and I appear
>to be one of them.

Is that true? You may  be right...  Speaking  strictly from my
local point of  view,  I know just   two  or  three  persons  who play
regularly PBMs  and PBEMs. I know a  lot of them with Internet access,
but who don't play any PBEMs (just PBMs), and  a  lot of them who also
have access to the Internet, but who play just PBEMs...

So, you may be right after all... but the reason _why_ this is
so still eludes me.

- Luis Sequeira

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References

Re: Diplomacy rules ?
koziol@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Quincey Koziol)
Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:57:23 +0000