Re: Olympia Turn Length

From: cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1992 14:14:49 +0000

Scott "TCB" Turner writes
> (Carl Edman) writes:
> >What in effect would happen is that there would be a mini-update
> >(let's say 4 days to a week, to suit the tastes on pace) every
> >single night.
>
> And let's change the name to Empire, too!  :-)

No, no, no, the thing which makes empire so hectic and time consuming
is that some actions take _immediate_ effect instead of only at the
update. This forces any player who wants to win to be on call basically
24 hours a day and learn to type fast. An empire game without immediate
effects and lets say 10 ETU nightly updates would actually be quite
leisurely and not at all require daily playing. Of course, truly
continous updates would be even better and I once designed something
like that, but that story is altogether more strange.

I doubt that there is any other player in Olympia who has as convenient
or quicker access to email than I do, and I certainly would not send in
turns daily if there were daily updates. Daily updates allow you to
react fairly quickly, but there is almost never any need to. Rather it
allows you to send in turns whenever convenient or you've made a major
strategic decision and want to have it implemented immediately.

Carl Edman, aka BtA

References

Re: Olympia Turn Length
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Mon, 01 Jun 1992 05:01:35 +0000