[Discuss] Theoretical realistic messaging

[Mickey Leroy]

a new sort of paraphernalia, "Messagers", next to scouts/healers/banners/...
Messagers!
if you want to write a message to someone you need messagers who carry the
message for you

On 5/2/06, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:
>
> On 2 May 2006 at 9:43, Kristian Thy wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 01, Rob Croson wrote:
> > > What are you people smoking?
> > >
> > > Delaying messages hours, or (/me shudders...) turns, will only serve
> > > to completely invalidate the in-game message system. People will
> > > simply not use it. Armies will resort to out-of-game communications,
> > > such as IRC, IM, e-mail, yadda yadda yadda... (Not that the ruling
> > > councils, generals, and marshals don't already do this anyway. This
> > > will just guarantee that everyone else will start using them, too.)
> >
> > What are *you* smoking?
> >
> > 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?
>
> I know for a fact that at least one realm does almost all it's planning
> using IM.
>
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> > 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?
>
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Mickey
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