Re: Olympia Turn Length

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Sat, 30 May 1992 19:49:51 +0000

In article <2A2724B5.17078@noiro.acs.uci.edu> cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

>Sure. But while I can understand that some people really don't have
>time to send in orders more than once a week, I really don't think that
>it would be _that_ terrible if just in the relatively rare case that
>they are attacked, they might just have to make an exception once. Do
>you ?

Have you ever played the game Empire? From what people say about it,
the most effective attack strategy is to attack late at night while
your opponent is in bed. Or while they are on vacation. That hardly
seems to be a game of skill to me.

Also, you don't seem to get that it's not a matter of people having
the time to log in frequently. Lots of people do not have instant
email delivery. Delays to Compuserve and some foreign countries can be
6 hours to a couple of days. 1/3 of Compuserve's mail was held for 2
days over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, it seems, because of a
screw-up that wasn't fixed until the staff got back Tuesday morning.
Even my email occasionally gets held up by hardware problems, both in
my local machines and our network connection. I'd hate to see a game
in which a typical once-in-a-year failure causes me to get wiped
out. I'd like to think that I'll be playing Olympia for years.

References

Re: Olympia Turn Length
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 30 May 1992 04:39:28 +0000
Re: Olympia Turn Length
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Sat, 30 May 1992 06:46:14 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia Turn Length
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 30 May 1992 04:39:28 +0000
Re: Olympia Turn Length
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Sat, 30 May 1992 06:46:14 +0000