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Originally Posted by chrispedersen
Just for the record sept.. I don't have *any* other games.
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Smart man. One other game is probably doable. But I certainly don't recommend more than that.
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Originally Posted by Squirrelloid
Seriously, I subbed into this because the team really needed someone. I had not planned on playing in such a massive game beforehand, and I stepped in because there was a need. Heck, I didn't even sign up for an alternate spot.
Regardless, 4 days is not an unreasonable amount of time per turn for a team game at this stage. I might have a turn in before it hosts given the current hosting time.
Perhaps I should sub out. Not that there seems to be an overabundance of people desiring to sub into this game. But its becoming increasingly clear that allowances for real life aren't living up to expectations. My team is already down a player, however, so it feels wrong leaving them in the lurch.
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I appreciate your commitment to team. There have been plenty of allowances for real life and I will continue to make allowances when appropriate.
There are not many active team games to reference on Llamaserver in comparison with the huge number of FFA, but if you take a survey of the team and regular games there, the average is around 72 hours for games that are at or around turn 50 which is right where we are and where we should be. We also started at 32 hours, which is more lenient than most, we were at 40 hours till turn 20, which again is longer than FFA because I realize the communication needs. I haven't taken at look at the dom3minions team games, but I suspect it is probably the same. When we had huge size teams we never
Regardless, we've been far exceeding our scheduled hours on a regular, repeated, and consistent basis for quite some time now. Some of which is reasonable and could not be helped, some of which could be in my opinion. Which does concern me, because it means either I am not giving enough time to players (and the hosting interval increment needs adjustment) or players just don't have the time. Heck, when we had 12 people on a team in NvV we didn't have this problem, so something else is going on. Hence the reason for the incorporation of a that disclaimer for game 2.
Speaking of which, we should be at 72 now. I am adding 8 hours to the clock and will follow-up with Gandalf to make sure we are at 72 hours for the next 10 turns at least.
I do place a greater emphasis on team identification, immersion, and communication than many other small size team games which attempt to avoid this via smaller teams and various other artifices designed to limit or avoid these natural complexities. I certainly don't want anyone ever to complain they don't feel like they are part of a team when playing my games. I can't force communication on people, but it is really the only thing that seperates FFA games and SP games from team games.