From: Gavin Wynford-Jones <GavinWJ@compuserve.com>
to suggest that an additional payment of seventeen pounds
fifty is not expensive just isn't living in the real world.Oh give me a break... That same argument has been used against deposits
since at least 1979, when I first saw it and the proposed deposit was five
pounds (a far higher sum in real terms than the twenty or so I would
propose today). You pay the sum once and you get it back at the end of the
game. If paying such a sum would cause you such great financial problems
then maybe, to be frank, paying for a game is the least of your worries.
*** For lots of players this would be out of their range I think.
2) Who is to decide when a position is unplayable?
The software already does this, if we are to believe the fronsheet.
*** Um - I don't think you think this - a position is "unplayable" when a
player does not want to play it - different players different levels.
3) All of this makes more work for Clint!
No more than the current system. It's a small programming change in the
accounts software.
*** Um - we don;t have access to the coding at present - we would have to
totally re-write it to allow for any real change - time and money.
1) If your position is wrecked and you drop, do you lose the deposit?
No. See point 2 above. If the software says the position is not viable,
you're OK. Otherwise, kiss the cash goodbye.
** Um
Deposits are, in my view, an ill-thought out, short-termist solution to
a problem that would end up costing Harlequin more business than it
gained.S'funny, they worked really well for Chris Harvey. But then he ran his
games as a business not a charity. So, what would you suggest, holding
player's firstborn as hostages...? <g>
*** Yes - but it would stop new players dead from joining I think. (The
firstborn bit as well 
)
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Gavin
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