Halls of Valhalla: Forseti Middle Era Open

FAJ · #1 July 27th, 2007, 04:34 PM

Yeah, I have played in PBEM games before, I just didn't know if there was a difference between this and that. To be honest, it is more hassle than it is worth.

You can count me out on this.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #2 July 27th, 2007, 07:00 PM

What particular is the problem? Is it the PBEM, or the time settings? I can change the latter.

FAJ · #3 July 27th, 2007, 08:09 PM

Its the former.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 July 28th, 2007, 12:32 PM

Question for non-interested people who've read the thread.
If you've looked at this proposal, and decided its not for you, what turned you off of the idea?

RE:FAJ
It's hardly that much hassle, my blather aside. Or at least I hope to convince you so. If I can't, well, sorry to see you go. It means we're further from getting the game up.

The pretenders a minor hassle, but only setup once. Its a matter of taking the pretender with the most recent timestamp and sending that one it.

With a good email program/website, it remembers where you've saved last, saving you quite a few clicks. It also remembers the 'subject' after a few letters, so you don't need to type up Chupacabra every time. I send my turn to jaguar and chupacabra with about four keystrokes.

On the plus side, this system results naturally in a backup of every turn in case something goes wrong.

llamabeast · #5 July 28th, 2007, 02:31 PM

There seems to be a fairly wide-ranging antipathy towards PBEM which I can't really understand - I'm pretty sure that if people tried it they would find it much less annoying than they imagine. I would say that for me it adds maybe 10 seconds on to either side of taking the turn. Ah well.

Incidentally LP, you don't need to type "Chupacabra" every time anyway - you don't need to put anything in the subject line (except for when you send your pretender in).

Sleet · #6 July 28th, 2007, 05:01 PM

Wouldyou be up for setting up a epic heroes mod (Map: no preference)?

By the way, I like PBEM better, (for one, sometimes the reminder of the email file is good so I don't miss a turn!)

Halaster · #7 August 6th, 2007, 04:20 PM

Hi.

You still looking for players? If so, I'd join in. Faction and age don't really matter, I'm just looking to get into the whole PbEM stuff. Single player gets boring after awhile...

CU,
Halaster

tibbs · #8 July 31st, 2007, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Question for non-interested people who've read the thread.
If you've looked at this proposal, and decided its not for you, what turned you off of the idea?

RE:FAJ
It's hardly that much hassle, my blather aside. Or at least I hope to convince you so. If I can't, well, sorry to see you go. It means we're further from getting the game up.

The pretenders a minor hassle, but only setup once. Its a matter of taking the pretender with the most recent timestamp and sending that one it.

With a good email program/website, it remembers where you've saved last, saving you quite a few clicks. It also remembers the 'subject' after a few letters, so you don't need to type up Chupacabra every time. I send my turn to jaguar and chupacabra with about four keystrokes.

On the plus side, this system results naturally in a backup of every turn in case something goes wrong.

I think llamabeast runs a great server system. It's just that if I have a choice between email and tcp/ip I'll go with the latter. They seem like a step backwards from TCP/IP servers.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #9 July 31st, 2007, 04:29 PM

As Llamabeast said, Atla is ready and awaiting pretenders. I'll start up a thread for it a bit later, and select a 'b' mythological norse name for the next game.

davegg · #10 July 31st, 2007, 07:18 PM

If atla is open I would like to play ulm