[Discuss] I hate this kind of orders: "If you have X hours left until you arrive, delay your Time pool down to Y hours"

[Aaron Champion]

On 12/8/06, Matt Runyon <m.runyon at comcast.net> wrote:

> Perhaps you know different players than I do.  I know people (myself
> included in one case) who when we couldn't log on one day would have
> loved to be still with the main army when we got back.  Real people can
> already be controlled via the marshal formations.  And if they don't
> want to be in the army, they can move back.


And we both probably know people who are just the opposite.  You're
suggesting an arbitrary imposition instead of some kind of enticement to
participate.  Additionally, you're also suggesting a philosophy of "if you
can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."  Sounds like tons of fun.

"Significant size" is the key phrase.  Look at the numbers of people in
> the armies we're dealing with.  Even the Romans routinely had armies in
> the thousands, up to ten thousand or so.  When was the last time you saw
> a BM army with more than ten thousand soldiers?  People get confused
> with CS, but the numbers of soldiers are considerably lower.


BM isn't to scale, so don't draw comparisons between army size on the same
scale.  40K CS should be just as hard to manage as Napoleon's 400,000, if
not more so given the technology of the time.

I could, perhaps, say the same thing to you.  I was making a suggestion
> that I thought sounding interesting and fun, and might resolve some of
> the issues people have brought up.  I'm not forcing the idea, merely
> putting it out there to see what people thought.


Your suggestion seemed to preclude the consideration of the hundreds of
other people who aren't Marshals or Generals.  I can appreciate that it was
a suggestion and not a demand.  Just the same, my suggestion to relax was
not directed entirely at you.  The difference is that my "enthusiasm" in
this debate is in response to an infringement on the amount of control I
have over my own characters, not on the effectiveness of my strategy and the
game's/other people's inability to fall in line accordingly.
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