Finding the time to NOT have fun

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I think alot of newbies would have stepped in. I often recommend it in fact. They have a ready excuse if they do bad because it wasnt their nation design. Gives an idea of a multiplayer game and all they have to do is play better than turning it over to an AI. Or at least, more surprising.

Eh.... Not for a 12 hour game, I don't think. Even in the early game, new players suddenly realize that they're in a 12 hour, 2 turn a day game, and balk.

Turning it over to a new player is great, certainly better than going AI especially if the replacement player agrees to keep in mind alliances / wars that were going.

But ... If it's taking the original player 3 hours to take his turns, in a nation he built, where he knows what his plans were, how long is it going to take the new guy?