[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Kristian Thy]

On Tue, May 02, Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> > 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?

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

I know for a fact ten others that don't.

> > 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.

Then what? Half the people I'm talking to are asleep anyway at any given
time.

> > 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.

Then the enemy general will still have delayed orders, putting us back
to status quo on this.

> > 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?

Posting RP?

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