Re: Play By Email Games : Advice

From: hcobb@fly1.berkeley.edu (Henry J. Cobb)

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 20:57:29 +0000

I've been running a non-RPG. (SFB).

The true idenities of the players are hidden (even allies), so
that inter-ship chatter can be limited to game segments to avoid an
advantage to those players who seem to lack a life to compete with
their netting. ;-)

SFB assumes efficient defences in its game balence so the biggest
problem the players have had is in dealing with guided weapons.

You should think of this as a bunch of small missile armed
fast attack craft with phalanx defensive systems that are sufficently
effective to let both sides stand and exchange fire, but the limit to
feedback in tactics 'suggestions' tends to have ships wander a bit out
of line.

In order to keep the game going, I've combined several movement
impulses into each weekly segement, so the players are talking about
what happened last segment while getting into new sorts of trouble in
the current one.

Player independence does not seem to have greatly inproved
reliability in handing in their turns on time, so I suspect that if
I run another game after this one, I'll ask everybody to submit a fleet
and assign the two admirals to command the winning entries with everybody
else being a captain under a clear chain of command.  This might avoid
the "Gee I'dono, which way you wanna go?" type comments I've been
seeing... ;-)

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References

Play By Email Games : Advice
c9e-al@danube.Berkeley.EDU (HakLien Chua)
Sat, 15 Feb 1992 23:27:45 +0000
Re: Play By Email Games : Advice
jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Sun, 16 Feb 1992 22:41:26 +0000
Re: Play By Email Games : Advice
seawasp+@pitt.edu (Ryk E Spoor)
Mon, 17 Feb 1992 01:39:43 +0000