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- Subject: Re: Just out of curiosity...
- Summary: Questions to ponder
- Message-ID: <28DEC199217090166@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:09:00 GMT
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- >SUBJECT: Where is empire headed?
- >
- >The coders out there are doing some good stuff. However, I have
- >to wonder if our game is becoming just too damned complex. For
- >instance, there are players here at Kansas State that would be
- >lost without the Xemp client. The number of commands is just
- >daunting to these neophytes who have come to rely on the client to
- >do the work, instead of learning the commands.
- >
- I don't know about the rest of you .. but I can still get every
- thing done by hand. Empire has had the advantage of causing me
- to learn to type faster. When I first started I was typeing about
- 25 WPM, now I'm in the neighborhood of 70 - 80 WPM. No I don't
- believe the game is becoming too complex, although there is a lot
- of information out there.
-
- >As a matter of fact, scripts and piping out to egrep to isolate
- >info were seemingly foriegn concepts to these relative newbies.
- >Take away xemp and they are toast.
- >
- By all means, take away the xemp/tcemp, let them find out how
- to play without the help from the program .. and then after they've
- learned the game .. :) .. they can go back to doing what they did
- before, if they find it expedient.
-
- >
- >BUT, back on the subject, is the game becoming to complex?
- >
- No, the game isn't becoming too complex.
-
- >OR, is it just coming into its own? Is empire entering its
- >golden period of enlightenment? The tools and "new" clients
- >allow people to play without having to have the knowledge that
- >was hard to gain in the days of yore. (Notice, i said "play"
- >not "master")
- >
- Who's a master? I thought we were all Initiates.... :)
- Empire is a game, that as far as I'm concerned, of LUCK, skill,
- even more LUCK, and tenacity. He who can stay on the longest
- without making the most mistakes, wins ... or am I wrong?
- But then dumb luck comes into the equation.
-
- > james seymour/camel/camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
- >
-
- As I was saying, dumb luck falls into the equation.
- Take for example, I'm co-ruling my girlfriends country in the
- game being played out of mazda.?.?.?........ heck ZOG, you know
- where the game is being played from. Back to the subject, This is
- my girlfriends second game. Right now she's on top of the power chart,
- better than I could do. Is she a good empire player, Hell, I don't
- know......If she's not a good empire player, then how did she get
- on top of the power chart, LUCK -- or skill?
-
- Well, I'm getting that look from her...... Looks like I'm in trouble.
- :)
-
- You descide....
-
- Stuart_Hall
- aka Corwin
- aka CTE -- Co-Ruler (My Girlfriend wanted to play)
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