Refering to the title, the only way I see "Longer waiting lists for better games" is that when the next game is going to start within a month, there isn't much incentive to play a losing hand. If you were going to have to wait 6 months to start, you'd probably keep playing the poor situation.
Darrell
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I can't see many players wanting to wait 6 months and I think it would destroy the game.
Prime example - when we took over Allsorts they had 2 2950 games with mostly the same nations taken on both games! Contacting them we managed to get a game out of it, but some had dropped from waiting. Same with some of the 1000 games I have tried to set-up recently - taking around 4-6mths meaning that I get around 3-5 players drop from boredom.
From that perspective alone I don't think that longer waiting lists of the number described below would be feasible. I think we have a working method that is fine at present. Some players want to play longer games - that's okay with us as well - and we'd encourage them as well!
Clint
Refering to the title, the only way I see "Longer waiting lists for better
games" is that when the next game is going to start within a month, there
isn't much incentive to play a losing hand. If you were going to have to
wait 6 months to start, you'd probably keep playing the poor situation.
--- In mepbmlist@y..., Middle Earth PBM Games <me@M...> wrote:
I can't see many players wanting to wait 6 months and I think it
would
destroy the game.
Yikes! It would destroy my interest. I've been delighted by how
quickly you guys have started games, both the grudge matches I
usually play in and the few individual games I've joined. Of course,
on individual games I have usually been pretty flexible about which
nations I would play.
Actually, I always found it odd that GSI used to take weeks to start
a game even when you sent them two full grudge teams. I could never
figure out whether they were desparately short on Neutrals or just
didn't feel like rushing.
Mark Jaede