Re: time to think about PBEM articles

From: bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard J. Bampton)

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:11:59 +0000

In article <1992Aug28.021742.2586@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>I'm going to be writing an article on Galaxy with advice to novices,
>since none of the other zillions of players care to write one ;-)
>
Top 10 reasons why none of us are doing so:

10) My mailer crashed when it ran out of disk space. Do you think that
 10 games is too many?

9) We're too busy trying to suggest new ideas.

8) None of us know how to write anything more complcated than
  "Die mutant scum!"
    or
  Galaxy game <foo> turn orders for killers
  W newbie
  D Battleship 100 1 50 100 0
  P <homeworld> Ship Battleship
  Q

7) Hey! If you go and write such an article, who are the experienced
  players going to knock off first?

6) I'm too busy knocking off a newbie.

5) Not now! I'm in the middle of treaty talks with one of my neighbors.

4) I'm writing a turn analizer that can do that. And more.

3) I'd rather be playing galaxy!

2) I'm too busy running my own game so that everyone else can enjoy
  the fun!

And the number 1 reason:
1) What do you mean? Isn't everyone a galaxy expert?

(:-) 's all over the above text
--
Howard Bampton             Internet: bampton@cs.utk.edu
Even the walls of Jerchio fell.....

References

time to think about PBEM articles
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:17:42 +0000