RE: [eia] untitled

["Nate Ellefson" <nellefson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I sympathize with these concerns entirely, but to reiterate: Joel isn't
at home now.  Even if we'd sent in our political orders at the beginning
of last week we would, right now, be stopped at the reinforcement phase,
because Joel doesn't have his map or any of the other information he
needs to send out orders.  And we're cognizant that discussions have a
point of dimishing returns, but, in terms of actual content, Joel's
probably been able to send in an email every three days or so; it's not
as though thirty emails have gone back and forth.

If people being unavailable is impacting the game to the point where
people are finding it unplayable then we should maybe think about
putting into place procedures to try to mitigate the impact.  To be
frank, I don't have a problem with the game going slowly, but this might
be a good discussion to have.

What does everyone else think?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:eia-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:57 AM
> To: public list for an Empires in Arms game
> Subject: Re: [eia] untitled 
> 
> 
> I think the point is that several of us are becoming 
> concerned for the 
> continued existence of the campaign.  Some players have said 
> in the past that 
> the game would be unplayable (by which I understood them to 
> mean that it 
> wouldn't be worth playing) if it became a real-time game.  
> The December turn, I 
> believe, went over three weeks, which was disheartening.  Now 
> the January turn 
> has almost two weeks in, and we haven't gotten through the 
> political phase.  
> Very worrying.  So while I don't agree with Jim flying off 
> the handle, I share 
> his concerns.  Maybe whatever negotiations are going on right 
> now simply cannot 
> be resolved at this time, regardless of how logical each 
> side's point of view 
> seems to them.  I can't tell you how many times this happened 
> between me and 
> Danny.  :-)
> 
> -JJY
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Thus spake "James Helle":
> > > Well, I've checked my email every day for the last week 
> and a half 
> > > to see
> > if
> > > any progress has been made.  So far I've been disappointed on a 
> > > regular basis.
> > > 
> > > Since my reinforcement phase is the last one and it will 
> likely take 
> > > Joel and Nate another two weeks to "consult" each other 
> on what they 
> > > should do
> > in
> > > their reiforcements (after they waste another week in 
> "diplomacy") I 
> > > will check back in a few weeks.  Talk to y'all later.
> > 
> > Look, first of all, I haven't been home since last 
> Saturday. Second, 
> > Nate and I are not just sitting on our hands like you seem 
> to imply. 
> > Just because you're not doing anything at the moment, it doesn't 
> > follow that nothing is happening.
> > 
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