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DaveV
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 11:23
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Another factor in favor of SP is cost. As a congenital miser, it would kill me to be paying by the minute for MP. All of the time spent on waiting for the game to start, chatting, bathroom breaks and disconnects that I shrug off now would be costing me money, and the meter in my head would be running the whole time. PBEM is a good alternative in this respect, also, since you only have to connect to transfer the save file. |
rah
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 11:58
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I have a cable modem (which is a flat rate of 39.95 a month), so the more I play, the cheaper it is per minute.  Any excuse is a good excuse. RAH
Of course, my daughter makes sure we get our money's worth every month through on-line chatting.
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solo
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 12:23
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La Fayette, Yahtzee is a game played with 5 dice, where you get points for rolling different combinations. There is some strategy to it, but you don't have to dig too deep into the gray matter to figure out the probabilities. Talking to the dice seems to influence the results more, but I am still researching this. The game is made by Milton Bradley, who also put out an excellent game called Axis & Allies, which on first appearance seemed childish, since you are given little plastic replicas of soldiers, ships, tanks and planes to push around the game board, but the dynamics were so well designed and balanced that it became a favorite for me and other lovers of wargames.drake, maybe in Civ III we will be able to build junkie units and will have bags of dope on the commodity list. This would add some realism to the game.
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drake
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 12:26
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Thanks solo, but I knew that  Lafayette is the one that asked  |
solo
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 12:32
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just noticed my error after posting, but you beat me to it drake! are you sure you are not on something yourself? |
drake
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 13:01
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drake, maybe in Civ III we will be able to build junkie units and will have bags of dope on the commodity list. This would add some realism to the game.
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I definetly think a black market like idea would be interesting in civ......but of course it ain't happening. I'm not on anything, but if I was and needed to score, I know what town I'd go to |
Everyman
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 14:36
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I betcha the overwhelming majority of Civ II players are SPs.I heard that for a real-time strategy game like Age of Kings, the ratio is something like 10 SPs for every 1 MP. Real time strategy games are more geared towards a multi-player environment than a turn-based game like Civilization, so I would infer that the ratio of SPs vs MPs for Civ II is much greater than 10 to 1. We could always do a poll at Apolyton but the sampling would be far from repreentative. Does anyone happen to know if Civ II's publisher has done any marketing studies on the ratio of SPs vs MPs? |
SlowwHand
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 18:20
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Originally posted by rah on 05-10-2001 11:58 AM
I have a cable modem (which is a flat rate of 39.95 a month), so the more I play, the cheaper it is per minute. Any excuse is a good excuse. RAH
Of course, my daughter makes sure we get our money's worth every month through on-line chatting.
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Rah's got the same sick sense of cash flow I do.
Cable. I love cable so much.
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War4ever
b.02-15-99
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posted May 10, 2001 18:44
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Originally posted by SlowwHand on 05-10-2001 06:20 PM
Rah's got the same sick sense of cash flow I do.
Cable. I love cable so much.
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oh yah baby..... love thy cable...... if i had to pay by the minit.... i would crap myself i think.... | |
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