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- From: bc@fccn01.fccn.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
- Subject: Re: Diplomacy rules ?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:29:42 -0600
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- Quincey Koziol <koziol@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes (in reply to Karel Driesen):
-
- > Also, possibly the reason that people play PBM games is because they
- >_don't_ have access to the Internet with all of it's free PBEM games.
-
- Well, I sincerely hope that this isn't the _only_ reason! :-)
-
- For example, I play PBMs (besides PBEMs) because generally
- (this doesn't mean _always_) they are more complex; ie. they offer
- players a larger variety of rules, orders, and playing strategies.
-
- Ok, there may be many PBMs with less rules than Diplomacy, for
- example (which hasn't _that_ many, compared with some PBMs I play);
- however, I think there is still a greater variety of PBMs to choose
- from, and you may pick the one that you think it's worth its cost!
-
- On PBEMs, you can "afford" to play simple games (they can be
- lots of fun, too!), as they are free... and there are a few more
- complex (I'm thinking about Olympia, for instance), and you can try
- them, too, for free.
-
- So, even with access to the Internet, many may me playing PBMs
- just because they _can_ offer more...
-
-
- > Personally, I believe that the overlap between people on the Internet
- >and people of play PBM games is vanishingly small...although you and I appear
- >to be one of them.
-
- Is that true? You may be right... Speaking strictly from my
- local point of view, I know just two or three persons who play
- regularly PBMs and PBEMs. I know a lot of them with Internet access,
- but who don't play any PBEMs (just PBMs), and a lot of them who also
- have access to the Internet, but who play just PBEMs...
-
- So, you may be right after all... but the reason _why_ this is
- so still eludes me.
-
- - Luis Sequeira
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