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[Discuss] Dwilight

Chris Ager cager at sover.net
Sun Jan 13 22:13:31 CET 2008


> Hm, that's an excellent point.
>
> In BM it is exactly the other way around - the general sending orders to
> everyone is FASTER than sending them to the marshals and those sending
> them on.
>
>
>
> Maybe we should dig out our old idea  about message system delays again
> - with a twist: The more people you send to, the longer the delay. Say,
> one minute per person on the recipient list? Of course that also means
> we have to find a way to prevent people from just scripting sending to
> everyone individually, but that would be simple - we just add the delay
> not per message, but per turn or something.
>
> Just a quick thought.
>
>
> General sending to 60 people: Orders will reach them one hour later.
> General sending to 3 marshals: Orders arrive after 3 minutes.
> Marshals sending to 20 people each: Orders arrive after 20 minutes.
>
> Even if the marshals are not online, it could still save time.
>

I think that would be a great idea, an effective incentive to use the duchal 
armies instead of the whole. It might need some more to change the way 
battles are currently done but it is a great start. 




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