Whatever ny differences with Harley may be, I want the company to prosper. Since Harley is so variant crazy, let me propose this:
For the pickup games the Noldo and Cloud Lord are put out for bid. They go to the highest bidder within a certain date. That is an "English" bid, or a "sealed" bid, not a "Dutch" bid.
In 12 years of play I never got to play either position. Just recently, I picked up a dropped Noldo position but the CL still eludes me. Since I have more money than good sense, I can finally play the Cloud Lord.
Ed Mills
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From: Middle Earth PBM Games <me@MiddleEarthGames.com>
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To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [mepbmlist] Re: ME One nation choices
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:31:05 +0000Yes but each player turn takes us time to run. So less money coming in more
turns to run is a bad thing for us. Hence a bad thing for you the players.Clint
At 19:19 26/11/03, you wrote:
> just a feeling; People have a max of 20� a month unless in steady jobs (and
>have cars ;-)), so what matters is the "gaming time" that can be obtained
>for the money, which in order words mean 3 nations would be better than 2
>(playing 2 in one game or 1 nation in to different games). So if more people
>were to play additional games or nations the changes to fill up a game or
>filling of a game faster would be increased, either because th eplay more or
>that the would be willing to play different nations. Does this make sense?
>
>Cheers
>Lars Bagge
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Middle Earth PBM Games
>To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: 26-11-03 20:11
>Subject: RE: [mepbmlist] Re: ME One nation choices
>
>At present I am not 100% sure what the situation with players paying for
>
>turns is. Would they pay more if things were run better? Would players
>
>pay less if they had the opportunity (Easy answer yes). BUT if that
>meant
>less service, less variants etc would they then pay less? If by
>reducing
>the costs would players run more nations? Don't know and no easy way to
>
>find out.
>
>PBM is a shoe-string industry - we're seeing many PBM firms go to the
>wall
>as they cannot earn enough money - and despite a leading player in the
>field with Harlequin we're not what I would call rich by any stretch of
>the
>imagination. (Out of the 5 ME staff there are NO car owners for
>example). Out of the 10 Harl/ME staff there are 2 car owners - a beat
>up
>13 year old Fiesta in both cases. That's the reality of running PBM...
>
>Clint
>
> >Hi
> >
> >I believe we should turn the discussion around so to come up with a way
>to
> >make people interested in playing the less interesting nations by some
>other
> >way than increasing the payment for the interesting ones. Here is one
> >suggestion:
> >
> >1) The more games you attend the less the cost per game
> >2) If you play more than one nation per game the less you pay for the
>second
> >nation
> >3) The cost can never be reduced below 3� and are of course following
>the
> >general price development
> >
> >This might make people want to play more and they will become less
> >interested in a particularly nation since they might want to attend
>another
> >game playing whatever nation.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Lars Bagge
> >
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If we're variant crazy then it's only because that's what the players want. Aren't you a player of Grudge, Wotr variant, 6v6 Grudge game, alternate 12v12 game with special rules and other such? I don't see that as a bad thing though. Glad we can offer such games.