How long do human vs human games (e-mail) take?
 

Hello,

Just wondering how many of you play email or Online and how long those games take generally to finish?

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I have been in a PBW Game (5 Seas of Stability) for over a year now and we are only up to Turn 71 - Its a week per turn game with 19 Human players. 18 still survive, but that number could soon drop.

In a 3 day per turn game (conquista), we started in December and I just uploaded turn 91 this morning.

[ October 01, 2002, 02:19: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

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Wow that is serious dedication,I've never ever played a game that long,how's the game going bye the way?

[ October 01, 2002, 02:20: Message edited by: MaCready ]

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Somes games I've played are slow but others I have played about 100 turns/week. If you set up some times with the other players, you'd be suprise how fast it can go.

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Stability - I'm in 8th position, allied with 15th & 16th and we suround the empire who we think is in 5th place. I'm lossing, but he is taking losses. Now if only I can get my other larger allies to assist me, we could all enjoy the spoils of War.

conquista - Not giving any information away because it could go either way and I know people of listening http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I would like to cast my vote for PBW as superior to email. Convince someone who wants to play against you to join and use it.

There is a potential benefit you can apply when setting up the game with automated turns that you can't get with email.

The game can be setup to run turns after a certain period of time. If a player has missed their turn -- either the AI will play that one turn or they can have nothing happen -- players choice.

It can help move things along.

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Conquista is still going on?

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5 people still standing in Conquista out of the orginal 12.

There is a spare slot for any one who wants it. The Lint Navy - Currently in 4th place. NOTE - Not a Gold Game.

IF - The Vorlons made it to round 61 before surrendering to me. Their Home World still stands.

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So sad to see my former empire so poorly run...

I forget why I left that game, actually. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">For that comment I am going give you a 0 Star Rating http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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0 stars? Bah! You get -3. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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For what it's worth, the oldest continually running game still currently being played on PBW is an affair called "Us against the Computer". It was started in June of 2001. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif It's currently up to turn 180 and appears to be getting about a turn every other week recently. Not sure if it's had faster and slower periods during it's history. That is likely. That's usually how it happens.

On the other hand a game I am in that started on August 4th is already up to turn 94.

But that is slow compared to some of the games I have been in and seen. I had one game where we were averaging 7 or 8 turns a day for a couple weeks. And I have heard of games getting in 25 to 30 turns a day. It all depends on how dedicated the players are.

It also helps to have just a few players. Typically the fewer players the faster the turns.

Geoschmo

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There is also the Turn Blitz game(s). Forced 1 hour turns, so you get 24 turns per day, and the whole thing is over in a week, maybe two.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If it ever gets started. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I will be uploading the first turn tonight.
The first turn will run for 48 hours, and every turn after will be half as long until we start 1 hour turns on the weekend.

EDIT: Assuming that PBW is available by that time

[ October 01, 2002, 20:17: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ooo. Touche' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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good lord, you people play fast. i used to like 24 hour turn games, but these days i cant do better than about 32. the nice thing about PBW, is that if all the turns are in, they run. so even in a game set to have slower turns, they will go quicker if everyone plays faster.

i have a game going that has Lasted a little over a year, and a 300 ship fleet is about to attack my sphereworld. my longest game, i think was about a year and a half (but my perception of time isnt all that great, i could be off). My fastest game Lasted about a month, and that was Furball 1.

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On PBW we usually play 3-5 turns/day until turn 30, then 2-4 until turn 50 and later 1-2 turns per day. Depending on how busy the day is, we sometimes manage to get 8-10 turns in the starting period of the game.
And the best way to do it is to set pbw server to 'after Last player upload' because in that case as soon as all players upload their turns you get the new turn and don't have to wait for the time-out.