Re: When to process?

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000

>>This always presumes that you don't accept telephone orders, otherwise
>>you might get some pillock phoning at 23:55 wanting to give you his
>>orders!

>Steve Pritchard wrote:

>I don't normally accept telephone orders but I still get pillocks calling
>me at 23:55 on the Sunday before a Bank Holiday with orders!
>

I had some success for a while charging players an extra $5/turn if they
expected me to transcribe their turn over the phone.  Not that it cut down on
the procrastination but at least I was paid something for the hassle!

Regarding the deadlines.  Once the deadline had passed, I assumed that players
had begun discussing their actions with each other and so I would no longer
accept combat orders.  If I had not already completed processing, I would
accept internal orders (economics, military movements within regions already
controlled that did not affect combat).

Players came to respect that a deadline was a deadline and often commented that
it was a nice change from other games they had been in.  It also led to a
couple occasions when a player would claim to their "ally" that they really did
try to make the attacks they had discussed but the moderator wouldn't accept
them because they were a few minutes late!   Ah, the games within the game ;-)

-John

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References

Re: When to process?
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000