Re: Space Empires

From: canute@gridpointgames.com (Canute Bigler)

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

On 12 Jan 2000 19:00:52 GMT, tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
wrote:

>Henry <htp@mac.com> wrote:
>
>[snip good intro to the question]
>
>>
>>Is a proper turn-based PBM game defined by the rate at which you receive
>>orders?  Submit orders?  Or does it suffice to merely have a 1:1
>>correlation between orders and reports?  Between action and reaction?
>
>I'd say anything in which you can do other things (in Real Life) in between
>one set of orders and the next, or between one set of orders and receiving the
>results of those orders is turn-based.  Anything which requires an ongoing
>period of attention is real-time.
>
>Anything down to days is almost certainly turn-based.  Minutes down is
>pretty much real-time.  Every hour (or thereabouts) is odd - you can't do
>a lot in between, but it's faster than most people would think of for turn-
>based.   All IMHO, of course.
>
>Interesting question to raise though... what's everyone else think?
>
>Regards,
>Tim.
>

I agree with you Tim.  Anything a day or greater would be turn based
to me, but anything less than that begins to become more real-time.
But then of course you have to ask what about games that are
real-time, but you only get so many turns per day, like the old BBS
door games?

Canute
Canute Bigler
Predsident, Gridpoint L.L.C.
canute@gridpointgames.com
www.gridpointgames.com

References

Space Empires
Rich <spacemaster@SpaceEmpires.com>
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Space Empires
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Space Empires
htp@mac.com (Henry)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Space Empires
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000