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Originally Posted by Skirmisher
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Originally Posted by DRG
Here's what I don't understand about the "allure" of live on line play.
Even on this thread it was mentioned that getting players to commit to a PBEM is hard and a stock PBEM allows players to pick the time they have to play a turn. On line co-ordination would seem to me to be a few orders of magnitude more difficult to keep on track especially with a large game.
Don
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I can totally understand this perspective. It would probably be very hard to find opponents that were willing to sit down for 3-6 hours and PLAY a TCP-IP game.
I ask people if they want to play SP3 Online and there's really NO interest.
I've even copied the CD several times and sent it out to some people,hoping to pick up a game. It hasn't happened. |
Most players of these games live in
different time zones. Even in the same time zone, some may work shifts etc.
So as well as getting someone to commit to probably a 4 or more hours solid chunk of time to play an involved game - you need to be on the same clock cycle. Or someone in say Finland has to play in his wee hours of the morning with his eyelids propped up by matchsticks against someone wide awake and fresh on the other side of the world.
PBEM totally rules out the problem of having to commit to any large
single block of time, plus it completely removes the time zone problem.
Andy