Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?

From: keenuward@hotmail.com (Rob Alexander)

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:20:58 +0000

spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve) wrote in message news:<433ffd38.0301111849.15bc8593@posting.google.com>...

> Its a tradeoff.  1 week seems right to me.  Less would place too much
> presure on people who either 1) dont have so much free time to devote
> to the game and 2) those who have a lot of diplomacy to do.

Have a look at Phoenix for an example of an alternative turn scheme.
Essentially, the game runs every weekday, however positions maintain a
queue of orders to work on. Each positions can store up to 5 days of
'time' at once, so will normally generate a turn about once a week
unless the player wants more or has to respond to game events.

One day in Phoenix won't allow you to get very much done, so players
are generally thinking of a week or more of action at one time. As
each ship, colony etc. is a separate position, most players will get
one or more turn results every day, rather than having everything
appear once a week. People generally seem quite pleased with this.

One concern, however, is that in the event of an unexpected battle you
will need to respond with new orders within 24 hours in order to be
maximally effective.

>My idea
> was that if a player didnt put in any orders for 3 weeks in
> succession, their position would be killed off, although their account
> would remain valid as long as it was paid up.  They could start
> another position.

I'm not quite sure this is necessary, what do you see as the key
benefits of doing this? It would, I suppose, prevent players wondering
if their allies/enemies are still playing or not, which is a problem
in some games.

> The game will not demand time, as actually entering any orders is a
> trivial thing that might take 5 minutes.  However, the amount of
> brainspace and diplomacy the game takes up would be dependent on the
> player.

I'm with you on this one, this is something that PBM/PBEM supports
very well.

rob

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Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:49:40 +0000
MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 02:36:15 +0000
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
richardhutnik@hotmail.com (Richard Hutnik)
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:21:34 +0000

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Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:49:40 +0000
MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 02:36:15 +0000
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
richardhutnik@hotmail.com (Richard Hutnik)
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:21:34 +0000