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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
- Subject: Re: 24-Hour Warp
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.200227.7043@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:02:27 GMT
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- In article <abick.725654327@cunews> abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick) writes:
- >In <1992Dec29.163343.356@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
- >>I am not about to try starting a new game at my level of inexperience but
- >>would certainly be more than willing to join a game with 24 or 36 hour
- >>deadlines and a _short_ grace period, no longer than 24 hours. I would
- >>prefer to play standard or standard gunboat.
- >
- >Me too.
- >
- >>Anyone else want to start a warp game?
- >
- >I'd gladly join. (Though, making it a gunboat game would have little
- >meaing since we would now know 2 of the players. And so would anyone else
- >reading this!)
-
- Ah, but they wouldn't know WHICH powers we were.
-
- >>I understand that no new games can
- >>be started on the Washington judge, that there are many games on the
- >>Washington judge in need of players (but these are games with a week
- >>between turns, apparently), but don't know what the policy is on the EFF
- >>judge.
- >
- >As far as I know, anyone can make a game but there has to be a Master
- >running. This seems to be a small problem since people want to PLAY games
- >and not run them. I have being doing "list full" almost everyday checking
- >for new games but the only ones starting have no Masters and are destroyed
- >before they even get started.
-
- >I still support the idea of No Master = No game but wish that some Masters
- >would post addresses so players can ask them to Master their games. How
- >does that sound to everyone (especially would-be Masters)?
-
- I sure wish someone would start some warp games. I'm really angsting
- today. I did list fulls on both judges to see what was out there for me
- to play in. Someone was advertising that a game, wasp on the Washington
- judge, had had four powers go CD. Thinking I would not only be doing the
- other players a service by taking up one of the powers that had gone CD
- and carrying it on, but also that I'd get to get into a game, I joined and
- thought "well, here we go." Two other people joined and that left Russia,
- with two units left, as the only CD power.
-
- *Then* an observer and one of the original players started saying that the
- three of us who came in should let our powers go CD and let the original
- players back in (assuming they ever come back).
-
- Ack. Now I'm being mean and nasty for having done what I did. I just
- wanted to play and can't find any games that look promising unless I'm
- willing to step in and swipe someone's power out from under them.
-
- Please, someone, start a warp standard game or two and let us all know.
- I'm dying to play but am beginning to wonder if I'll ever get to see the
- results of a set of orders I personally issued.
-