This game is an expensive coaster

Kagetora · #1 May 26th, 2001, 06:51 PM

Also if you would like to check out http://seiv.pbw.cc I would be happy to oblige you with a game against real live humans. It's not as fast as TCP/IP I guess, but I have a game there that is up to turn 45 in three weeks. At this rate we should be well past 100 turns in 6 months.<<<<

I have certainly done marathons before. The main problem I see with this is you have to have reliable people that keep the turns moving. My biggest concern is I would spend months and as soon as I start beating somebody they would quit. With TCP/IP my friends and I could play an entire game in a weekend or 2 weekends at most. It's just too much time and effort for me any other way. Although, I am happy some of you enjoy it.

Suicide Junkie · #2 May 26th, 2001, 06:56 PM

Yo, if your friends are willing to all get together to play direct-connect TCP/IP, then why can't they play PBW?
If you're all playing and submitting turns at the same time, there's no reason why you can't do 20 turns a day on PBW.

bob f · #3 May 26th, 2001, 07:00 PM

rder <<<<<<

That says it all.

Dracus · #4 May 26th, 2001, 07:02 PM

You are still comparing apples and carrots.

Software companies never sell finished products, if they did then there would not be any need for patchs, add-ons, etc. Name one game that was sold as a finished product and had everything they said they would like to include when they first made it known they were working on the game.
Even your OS is not completed. (I.E. In Nervada, MS stated that Win98 would end the blue screen of death problem. They turned on the computer and it core dumped. Bill was so red in the face. They released the product 4 weeks later to the gen public but if you bought a new system, it came with it installed. <I have win98 a month before it was released to the stores.> They then later still came out with Version 2 which was still not complete and made a number of patchs.)

Do that and You may just convince me.

I am out, I got a mod to release (no time given so no one will hold me to it.)

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 26 May 2001).]

Kagetora · #5 May 26th, 2001, 07:03 PM

This is the best action to take rather then post that we are lacking in brain area or a false statement that your dog can beat the game.(A MORE BELIEVEABLE STATEMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN:<<<<

Look I don't know you and you didn't have to post your resume. The thing about my dog was supposed to be a joke. I didn't think it was all that subtle that anybody would think my dog actually played it. I don't question people's intelligence unless I am given reason to. But, to me that is enough reason to.

Kagetora · #6 May 26th, 2001, 07:06 PM

Yo, if your friends are willing to all get together to play direct-connect TCP/IP, then why can't they play PBW?
If you're all playing and submitting turns at the same time, there's no reason why you can't do 20 turns a day on PBW.<<<<

Well I don't know but 20 turns in a day still seems awfully slow to me. How many hours are you talking here? Have you tried it? I haven't been able to play this game TCP/IP yet but I have played others that way and I would think 8 people could do the first 20 turns anyway in an hour or 2 at most.

Kagetora · #7 May 26th, 2001, 07:12 PM

Software companies never sell finished products, if they did then there would not be any need for patchs, add-ons, etc. Name one game that was sold as a finished product and had everything they said they would like to include when they first made it know they work woking on the game.<<<<<

Actually I buy games that have been out a year or more off the bargain bin all the time and I go to the website to check for patches and while there is usually at least one that fixed bugs, not to finish the game I have gotten games that didn't have any at all. The most recent being Jagged Alliance UB, which is a great game btw. However, you are using faulty logic. I can say that all bank robbers have robbed at least one bank but that doesn't mean it's okay to be a bank robber. They all need to finish their games before they sell them as a matter of ethics.