Thomm Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 Merry Christmas everyone ! I have a question for those who play by e-mail: how long does it take you to finish a game ? Can you plot your moves simultaneously ? Do you usually play in one session or with breaks (days even ?) ? The reason I am asking is that I finally finished my first CM game (Reisberg, Total Victory for me, the Allies ) and it took me about four hours, which is quite long (on a working day, at least). I found it very rewarding, by the way: mortar attack on a mis-identified gun (just an empty house), a commando raid on a 88, 3D stealth moves using 'trench cam' and so on ! Very interesting, indeed ! Nevertheless, I seldom have time to play that long in one continous session, so I wondered how this works with play by e-mail ! Regards, Thomm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 Thomm, Generally email play is done at the rate of one turn per day. A ten turn game should take roughly ten days at that rate.. Basically if you wake and there is a turn waiting you will plot it and send it to your opponent who plots his moves in the evenenig and sends the results back to you. Of course, you can choose to meet them on ICQ and swap files there but I think simply emailing one turn per day is what you're after. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lokesa Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 I've done a turn a day games as well as all night marathons. I prefer marathon gaming myself and generally, once started, will play 3 to 4 hour blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 My PBEM rate has varied from 1 turn every couple days to 4 turns a night (that was against Goanna in AU; his afternoon coincides with my pre-beddybye time, so we would talk on AIM and exchange turns. UNfortunately, some problem startred murgling the files I was sending him and he couldn't any movies, so we had to quit after only those 4 turns.) DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomm Posted December 23, 1999 Author Share Posted December 23, 1999 And is it also common practice to play more than one e-mail games simultaneously ? I can imagine that this would be quite time efficient because one could compensate the time lags of different opponents. By the way, wouldn't multi-player games become quite easy to program if you use a chain e-mail that originates from player A, who sends it to player B, then is forwarded to player C and so on until it comes back to A for evaluation and the loop starts again ? Would be fascinating I think ! Regards, Thomm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted December 23, 1999 Share Posted December 23, 1999 I'm currently playing 4 games. Two will beon hold until my opponents return home, the other two will go on hold after tonight until I get home. I've started an Excel spreadsheet to help me keep track of where each game is, and make sure I'm not holding up the process. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guachi Posted December 24, 1999 Share Posted December 24, 1999 My very first PBEM game took a week. We were doing three or four turns a day. The three I have going now crawl along at one turn per day. Fun games but moving slowly. I suspect most games I play will likely be the one turn per day type. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_PanzerLeader Posted December 24, 1999 Share Posted December 24, 1999 I'm currently involved in at least 10 pbem games - id have to count to be sure but there sure are alot of player folders :-P ------------------ SS_PanzerLeader....out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arien Posted December 24, 1999 Share Posted December 24, 1999 i'm one of those game folders panzerleader.. i have 3 games going and play one turn a day maybe two if i am lucky.. once in a while i play by icq.. then i get in about 5 turns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted December 24, 1999 Share Posted December 24, 1999 Currently involved in three games at about a turn each a day. ------------------ --- Dan Brown dbrown@owc.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted December 24, 1999 Share Posted December 24, 1999 One or two moves a day...more on the weekends and I try to keep four games going at a time....I have suffered only minor withdrawl symptoms at that rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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