[Discuss] Re: Poll: Who read and understood that this is a lightweight game?

[AJ]

On 9/14/05, Thomas Dalton (aka Tango) <thomas at vcarter.freeserve.co.uk> 
wrote:
> 
> "Apparently you also have trouble reading entire messages. The general's
> comments explicitly state "if you cannot participate in the turns,
> patticulary near the end and beginning". Last I checked, BM had two turns
> per day. 2 + 2 (before/after turn change) = 4."
> 
> The end of one turn and the beginning of the next are the same time. 1+1=2


Not everyone has broadband connection and not everyone uses an always on 
internet connection. For those who use dialup connections, in such 
situation, it would be cheaper for them to logout and login again than 
remain connected for the entire duration. And you may say the turn hardly 
two minutes to execute, but the turn change times are random and very 
likely, deciding and giving orders requires scout reports which themselves 
might get delayed. Look at the situation from an all round perspective.

And he didn't order anyone to log on, he asked them to consider if they were
> active enough - if they had a way of running their BG without logging on 
> at
> the beginning of each turn (as I do in my BGs) I'm sure it would have been
> fine.
> 
> If you don't expect those giving the orders to be online at the beginning 
> of
> the turn, you're expecting those that follow them to be on at the end of 
> the
> turn. Which is worse, a few leaders needing high activity, or everyone 
> else
> in the realm?


Neither. If you dont have the foresight to give orders one turn in advance, 
then give a chain of command. Someone lower down the order gives the orders 
if the higher one does not login to to give the order. The end point is, you 
dont need absolutely high activity(more than two logins, even that can be 
optional) to run a realm efficiently. 

aJ


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