Newbies and powerful nations

mepbmlist
#1

What about having an experienced player hold the hand of a new player for the first 10 turns for a reduction in the experienced players turn costs. ME benefit by new players learning faster and not dropping as often. Experienced player gets a financial incentive.
Sort of like Big Brother ME style.

Mark Stuckey

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From: "weenierogue" <weenie_rogue@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mepbmlist] Re: Newbies and powerful nations
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:28:43 -0000

Hi

I'm newer than a newbie because I am waiting to start up my first
game, namely BOFA but I have been following this thread.

Having read the input of some experienced players, I would hate to
have the finger pointed at me for letting the team down or ruining
someone's game or making someone's ratings drop, just because I
didn't play my chosen nation (be it a key nation or not) the way
it's "supposed to be played." With this in mind, I would be inclined
to not bother with any of the other games after BOFA cos it just
seems like lot of hassle on a new player. If for some reason I didn't
have time to answer or send emails, I don't want to be accused of
being uncommunicative and unhelpful. The pressure to "perform" seems
very high which to my mind, is not fun.

I've played PBMs for over 6 years and had never heard of MEPBM until
recently (ooh I hear you all gasp!) so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
If I had seen similar discussions about what newbies should and
should not do and how they can spoil games for older players, I don't
think I would have ever started playing any PBM games at all.

I appreciate that not all PBMs are as geared towards teamwork as
MEPBM but I don't think I have read anything that assures me that as
a newbie I will have a much fun unless I do as I am told.

This is probably just me being very negative, but there's not a lot
that has been said that has assured me that I will have a lot of fun,
for fear of putting a foot wrong.

cheers
weenie

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#2

Who's going to pay for this?

I have tried this with some variation and had some success but also without any success in around 50% of them as well.

Clint

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What about having an experienced player hold the hand of a new player for
the first 10 turns for a reduction in the experienced players turn costs. ME
benefit by new players learning faster and not dropping as often.
Experienced player gets a financial incentive.
Sort of like Big Brother ME style.

Mark Stuckey