[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Mark Moss]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 09:16 -0400, Timothy Collett wrote:

> But that's the problem--orders *already* have to be given, in some  
> cases, less than an hour after the turn in order for a good chunk of  
> people to receive and follow them.  If we can't get current orders  
> out until *hours* after the turn, we'll end up with 1/3 of our army  
> always being half a day behind, at best.

It would be a big change in game play, but keep in mind that your
enemies face the same problems.  Once solution would be to actually make
use of the realm hierarchy.  Give the marshal, who presumably is with
his army, the orders in advance (i.e. Attack this region on this date,
or go and plunder on the east side of some enemy realm).  He can then
give the message to his army at the appropriate time with no delay.

Bonus points if you can allow your marshall some leeway in how he
implements his orders.  For example, to call off an attack against an
unexpectedly large opposing force.

> I also worry about what some people have mentioned: that realms that  
> already make heavy use of out-of-game means of communication, such as  
> IRC and MSN, will end up sending orders that way, bypassing the  
> delays in messages, and gaining an extremely unfair advantage over  
> realms that don't use it to that degree, or refuse to use it in such  
> an abusive manner.

This sounds like a job for...<voice>The Titans</booming voice>.

> And there's little to no way to detect this in  
> order to punish it.

That's the problem.  The titans would have to come down very hard on
offenders they do catch to provide an effective deterrent.

Mark Moss






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