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Marick posted 02-21-99 09:19 PM ET
For any of you that is interested I posted a short primer on how to get a PBEM game up and running in the Multiplayer forum
Marick
Scrubby posted 02-21-99 09:51 PM ET
Sorry, Marick, I'm too lazy to go over there to the forum but I wanted to say that in my experience the PBEM is best begun as a hotseat game. My friend and I started a PBEM as hotseat for about half an hour and then went to PBEM. PBEM in the early game is just silly -- emailing turns which basically (sometimes) last two seconds -- "Turn Complete!"... just isn't too fun. If you wanna play PBEM SMAC do yourself a favour and start it hotseat or use the Time Warp option to accelerate your start!
Deadron posted 02-22-99 02:22 AM ET
Hmm. I know Brian Reynolds was a big-time Empire player -- and this is one that Empire handled well. It would let you play several moves at a time in the beginning, by calculating whether you could possibly bump into someone else within X moves. Saved a lot of hassle.
(Empire also perfected auto-forwarding and other things in ways that AC could learn from...)
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Author	Topic: Basic SMAC PBEM primer posted in Multiplayer
Marick	posted 02-21-99 09:19 PM ET For any of you that is interested I posted a short primer on how to get a PBEM game up and running in the Multiplayer forum Marick
Scrubby	posted 02-21-99 09:51 PM ET Sorry, Marick, I'm too lazy to go over there to the forum but I wanted to say that in my experience the PBEM is best begun as a hotseat game. My friend and I started a PBEM as hotseat for about half an hour and then went to PBEM. PBEM in the early game is just silly -- emailing turns which basically (sometimes) last two seconds -- "Turn Complete!"... just isn't too fun. If you wanna play PBEM SMAC do yourself a favour and start it hotseat or use the Time Warp option to accelerate your start!
Deadron	posted 02-22-99 02:22 AM ET Hmm. I know Brian Reynolds was a big-time Empire player -- and this is one that Empire handled well. It would let you play several moves at a time in the beginning, by calculating whether you could possibly bump into someone else within X moves. Saved a lot of hassle. (Empire also perfected auto-forwarding and other things in ways that AC could learn from...)