[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 2 May 2006 at 9:43, Kristian Thy wrote:

> 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.

And you would continue to do that, if exchanging messages back and forth 
were delayed by three or more hours? Possibly even turns?

I know for a fact that at least one realm does almost all it's planning using IM.

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

Not yet. The current in-game messaging system works almost as good as 
IRC/IM. Wait until all your in-game messages start getting delayed.

> 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.

Unless they send the reports via e-mail. Then they'll have it faster than you will.

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

Hmm... Going outside the game to circumvent things that the game mechanics 
make inconvenient?


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