Re: Sample Turnsheets (was: Charging for rules)

From: James DeBenedetti <silver_skull@citlink.net>

Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 03:46:18 +0000

In article <20000907085336.02627.00000027@ng-bj1.aol.com>, MadCentral
<madcentral@aol.com> wrote:

> I dont find that the cost savings by email are particularly high, because the
> most expensive thing I have is my *time*, and email players are significantly
> higher maintenance than mail players.  I like to personally respond to my
> players, and so in the end, email players end up costing me just as much, if
> not more.  Thats certainly not true of everybody's setup, but its true of mine
> because of the way I like to work.

Hmm... Why do email players require more maintenance than postal
players?  Do they have more questions, issues, or complaints?

> The point is, you cant look at your
> turn on your lunchbreak if you are a spot welder if you are playing by email
> (well, no easily.)  You cant take your turn on the bus (without special
> hardware.)  You cant spread your maps all over the kitchen table.  And you
> cant hear them thud on your doormat.

I work in an office and I'd like the chance to skim my turn as soon as
it arrives, not later that evening when I finally get home.  I also
have to stand up both ways when taking the bus, so it's difficult to
look at turns while commuting.  Maps I always make by hand, and my
mailbox is a metal box half a block away from home - no thud for me.

> If you want to play loads of
> turns, you can play an online game and play hundreds in a few hours...

Most online games don't have the depth of strategy that commercial pbm
games do.  I'm more likely to enjoy a Flying Buffalo game developed in
the 70s or 80s than many of the free games out there today.

References

Re: Sample Turnsheets (was: Charging for rules)
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:53:36 +0000