Re: [sfbol-planning] Asynchronous play

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This is a good idea.  My thought had been to allow for the saving of games so that users could pick them back up, but asynchronous play sounds like a better solution.

Aaron

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Devlyn Davis wrote:

> I know it's a little early to be discussing feature
> requests, but this is something that was brought up
> amongst other SIB players and it sounds like a good
> idea.
> 
> Allowing asynchronous play.  Basically, the system
> would become a sort of PBEM mediator for the players,
> although it wouldn't really be PBEM, the user's would
> just send their turn data to the server for
> processing.  The reason that this sounds appealing is
> that SFB can sometimes take a few hours (or more) to
> play a scenario.  There's a lot of folks that don't
> have that amount of time to spend online at once. 
> Asynchronous play would allow two or more players to
> play out a scenario over the course of a day or two,
> playing their turns when they have a few minutes
> available to spend online.
> 
> There should be limits placed on the system such as
> how long to allow a user to make his next move and how
> long a game could stretch out, but I think this opens
> up the system to a wider audience.
> 
> Just having fun with the possibilities...
> 
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