Re: Big PBMs

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:53:11 +0000

>>Active players.<<

I guess a big *commercial* turn-based PBEM game would be considered anything
over 500 players.  There are, maybe, ten of these in the world?  Of course,
even thats misleading because a game with only five players who controlled a
million positions each would be huge, wouldn't it?  In some senses, anyway.

>>Anyone can make a PBM that requires a 1 Gig database or 1000 differnt orders,
but I consider both a sign of trouble, not excellence :-)  <<

While I consider that comment silly.  Sure, it would be poor if the 1 GiG
database was just because of bad data structures and needlessly repeated data,
and 1000 orders would be rubbish if they were all needed to move you one square
North.

But equally, if those 1000 orders represented unprecedented depth and
imagination, and if that 1 Gig was chock-full of well designed detail, then
that wouldn't be a "sign of trouble" at all. It would be a sign of the sort of
hard work sadly missing in some areas of PBEM these days.

Steve T.

References

Re: Big PBMs
"Enno Rehling" <enno@despammed.com>
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:56:29 +0000

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Re: Big PBMs
"Enno Rehling" <enno@despammed.com>
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:56:29 +0000