arsan wrote:In my case, the "time problem" probably means that if i have a free afternoon i want to play for 4 hours doing maybe six or seven turns straight and then possibly i will not find time to play for 3 o 5 days or maybe for a couple of weeks.
Difficult to do this on PBEM...
Heldenkaiser wrote:... Of course, occasionally you meet someone new and eager who wants a turn every day (some even claim several turns a day) from one and the same match ... but he is usually disappointed soon and then usually starts playing like everyone else.
Hobbes wrote:I only play around 6 or 7 turns a week as Union, I guess on average about 40 minutes a day. I have a feeling people who play Athena would put at least this amount of time in?
Cheers, Chris
arsan wrote:Hobbes,
i think it will make you happy to know that Rafiki and i are going to begin an "extremist" PBEM april 61 campaign
I expect Rafiki to send me his first turn when he finds some free time (april maybe? :innocent .
If everything goes smooth we could hit january 1862 turn before 2010!
Regards!
arsan wrote:Hobbes,
i think it will make you happy to know that Rafiki and i are going to begin an "extremist" PBEM april 61 campaign
I expect Rafiki to send me his first turn when he finds some free time (april maybe? :innocent .
If everything goes smooth we could hit january 1862 turn before 2010!
Regards!
arsan wrote:Hobbes,
i think it will make you happy to know that Rafiki and i are going to begin an "extremist" PBEM april 61 campaign
I expect Rafiki to send me his first turn when he finds some free time (april maybe? :innocent .
If everything goes smooth we could hit january 1862 turn before 2010!
Regards!
PascalB wrote:For me, PBEM is really a disapointment...
I dont know why but I always have problems with the games I play.
I have 3 games atm and I'm inactive since a few weeks coz I have many crashs and problems with attached files or saved games or saving games...
I could only finish 2 of my 7 attempts...
I hate to deceive the guys who gave me their trust at the start of the game...
But I hope to resolve all these problems ASAP !
Hobbes wrote:I’ve had a dumb idea. You could have a team of several people who don’t have time for PBEM who all get the file. They could at least agree on a rough strategy to attempt at the start of each year.
As each file is received whoever happens to have time makes the turn.
Players who don’t have time may if they want have a look at the file and make a few comments on that turn if they wish to try and influence the one making the move.
Might be fun, might not.
Hobbes wrote:I’ve had a dumb idea. You could have a team of several people who don’t have time for PBEM who all get the file. They could at least agree on a rough strategy to attempt at the start of each year.
As each file is received whoever happens to have time makes the turn.
Players who don’t have time may if they want have a look at the file and make a few comments on that turn if they wish to try and influence the one making the move.
Might be fun, might not.
Hohenlohe wrote:That was sometimes played with EUII in our Si-Games.com-Forum some months ago. I personally have not always the endurance for such a long PBEM-Play, but would like to try one after some months of playing with the ROP game or the AACW-Game.
But I prefered it on German, because I often miss some verbs in English which I have simply forgotten.In our forum we have two very good players which have a good experience with the AACW as a PBEM play and I think that they will give ROP or PON a try.
I think that Athena gives you a decent challenge on very hard, but most veterans are able to defeat her easily because of some failures she will always make. For example in AACW I often got the impression that Athena sent her forces from Washington to Harpers Ferry without necessary reason. So that only the main Washington Garrison remains and I could easily storm the capital with my main forces from Manassas or even Alexandria and got an early victory and sudden death for the Union. Only in the Clovis mod SVF the AI behaves in an other way.
greetings
Hohenlohe
gchristie wrote:Out of curiosity I'm wondering of those that play by email how many elect to play the shorter AACW scenarios? From what I recall, players looking for a pbem opponent in this forum almost always opt for the full campaign. Given that time constraints are an often mentioned reason for not playing by email, I'm wondering if playing one of the shorter scenarios might be the obvious pbem compromise, and if so why players don't choose to do so more often?
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