[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Kristian Thy]

On Mon, May 01, Rob Croson wrote:
> What are you people smoking?
> 
> Delaying messages hours, or (/me shudders...) turns, will only serve 
> to completely invalidate the in-game message system. People will 
> simply not use it. Armies will resort to out-of-game communications, 
> such as IRC, IM, e-mail, yadda yadda yadda... (Not that the ruling 
> councils, generals, and marshals don't already do this anyway. This 
> will just guarantee that everyone else will start using them, too.)

What are *you* smoking?

I've played BM for over 3 years, been King, PM, General, the whole
gamut, and not once have I used IRC or IM, nor been asked to use IRC or
IM, nor met someone who do for other than OOC.

Quite frankly, using IM isn't the magic bullet people seem to think.

Oh, and for the person saying that realms would be at a disadvantage
giving orders a turn in advance because of spies: Said spies would take
just as long (or longer) sending their report home as the General would
have to move back his orders, so that's just status quo. And the enemy
would have even less time reacting due to the tardiness of their own
orders, so this in actual fact makes spying less effective.

And for the people (Gloria) complaining about it making RP difficult:
There's an RP mailing list. Guess what it's for?

\\kristian
-- 
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deyr sjalfr it sama,
en orðstírr deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getr.


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