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shovah said:
how does playing pbem make you remember to do it more? i mean surely its just as easy to rememmber to go onto the server as it is to send your turn file?
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It is because you get an email when a new turn is out on PBEM but you don't on a server game. In fact, I keep the turn email sitting in my inbox until I send in my 2h file as a constant reminder that it is due.
Of course, I check my email maybe 10 times a day. I am guessing that not all people do this.
Zooko and some others started a thing where the server automatically sends out an email when a new turn is up. This helps greatly when it works. I did get a stale once because the notification thing failed and the turn hosted without me remebering that a turn was due around that time. That can't happen with PBEM unless your email server messes up (which has been know to happen). This is why I post on this forum about specific turn files due so people have two independant ways to check that their turns are needed.