[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Laoch]

It has all been said previously, but I'll put my 2 cents in as well.

" BattleMaster is designed to be a light-weight game. Most online games 
require that you spend hours every day if you want to achieve anything, and 
reward only the most dedicated players, which usually means those with 
nothing else to do with their day.
BattleMaster is meant to be played alongside your other activities, and you 
will not gain much advantage from spending more than the few minutes a 
normal turn takes."

Quoted from the front page. I believe this new realistic message system 
completely takes away from the "lightness" of the game. People who love to 
play the game, but only have time to login maybe 5 minute a turn are going 
to have a hell of a time. They must now login a lot more in order to see 
that they did not miss any messages or orders.

There is already often a time lag between messages because people can't 
respond to them in RL for 6 hours, now they login and respond...then it 
takes another 4 hours for their mesasge to arrive. This takes away from the 
FUN of the game. The beauty of BM is that it is able to nicely combine 
realism with a lot of fun aspects. This will take away from the fun.

Also can you imagine the chaos of attempting to figure out exactly when 
messages were sent from people trying to have a conversation from different 
areas. Discussions and simple fun conversations are going to be impossible. 
Person A B C and D are having a fun conversation. Person A B and C are in 
the same region, person D is 3 regions over. No it would not be realistic 
for person D's messages to arrive instantly, but when that person's message 
to person A's comment arrives 5 hours after the conversation has 
ended...conversation is then pointless.


I love adding realism to the game! Especially if it has historical 
significance, but I think this would drastically decrease the fun and 
lightness of the game. You HAVE to learn to balance realism with what is 
fun. I do not believe this new message idea takes that into consideration at 
all. 




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