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freduk
Joined: 18 Jan 06
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Location: Bristol, UK
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| TheCat wrote: | You young whippersnappers should have been doing this back in the 1970s, when we were sending turns by postal mail. Expectations sure have changed.
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Postal mail! You lucky lucky youth. why, I can remember having to chip out my instructions on a stone tablet and then walk for weeks in the rain and snow without any shoes, to hand-deliver my orders.
You tell that to the kids of today, and they don't believe you.  |
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HappyProle
SBW Developer
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Posts: 409
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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| Play-by-pigeon-mail, or PBPM as we used to call it, had its own set of problems. It got better once the communication protocol was standardized; however, it's still less than perfect, and there's a considerable amount of overhead to deal with. |
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stargate
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Location: North Attleboro, Ma USA
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| HappyProle wrote: | | Play-by-pigeon-mail, or PBPM as we used to call it, had its own set of problems. It got better once the communication protocol was standardized; however, it's still less than perfect, and there's a considerable amount of overhead to deal with. |
Myke --- that is very funny --
one of the best read's ever in a SBW forum post |
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Golux13
Joined: 14 Jul 05
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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You think it's a joke? Not so.
And of course the Wi-Fly protocol has some problems (won't go through Windows, transmission speed drops to zero in the dark, etc.), so there's always Snail Mail, with demonstrated data transfer speeds nearly 25 times as fast as ADSL.[/url] |
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hemp
Joined: 10 Dec 07
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| Is there any way to close or delete a game in wich the current player won't do anything? |
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stargate
Joined: 09 Dec 04
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Location: North Attleboro, Ma USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| hemp wrote: | | Is there any way to close or delete a game in wich the current player won't do anything? |
after 60 days of no activity the game becomes inactive and is transfered to the abandoned games list |
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magnusgb
Joined: 18 Jan 08
Posts: 22
Location: Norway
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Maybe it would be an idea to include in the profile statistics showing when a player usually makes the most moves.
For example, I can make several moves an hours during office hours monday through friday. Evenings and weekends I've got other stuff to do. It would be nice to e able to find players with similar habits.
But I guess the people running this site have other things to occupy themselves with. |
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stargate
Joined: 09 Dec 04
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Location: North Attleboro, Ma USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| magnusgb wrote: | Maybe it would be an idea to include in the profile statistics showing when a player usually makes the most moves.
For example, I can make several moves an hours during office hours monday through friday. Evenings and weekends I've got other stuff to do. It would be nice to e able to find players with similar habits.
But I guess the people running this site have other things to occupy themselves with. |
I play a few games here and contrary to "conventional wisdom"
playing with people who are 8 to 12 times zones away does
NOT mean slow playing games 
playing with people in your time zone does not mean fast games 
how fast a game is played depends of the speed of the players in the game 
also in most games >> fewer players means a faster game |
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Rebelslayer
Joined: 17 Jan 06
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Too true stargate ... however I'm hoping when my baby starts sleeping through that I will not be keeping such weird hours (I guess it would also help if I didn't always check my games after I fix the baby, even at 3am).  |
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stargate
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Location: North Attleboro, Ma USA
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| Rebelslayer wrote: | | Too true stargate ... however I'm hoping when my baby starts sleeping through that I will not be keeping such weird hours (I guess it would also help if I didn't always check my games after I fix the baby, even at 3am). |
it would be nice if a 3am diaper change could diminish your skills |
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daveszum
Joined: 28 Oct 07
Posts: 219
Location: CST
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:19 am Post subject: Slow play vs. no play |
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Folks,
I think we have to differentiate between slow play and no play. I am definitely seeing a trend with some players who are just slow (Reddragon, etc) and some players who are clearly playing only those games that increase their winning percentage (Alexandro, Blue Gecko, etc). I do not have a problem with the former, but the latter should be eliminated from the site. I have inquired about this from Milksheikh today, and await a response. If the answer is that it will be handled, then that is fine. Otherwise, there is no choice but to adjust your strategy accordingly. I don't like it but I also am not the one running the site.......It is merely the rules of the terrain (paraphrased- Sun Tzu) |
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Khloe
Joined: 10 May 21
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Location: USA, Los-Angeles
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| Thanks for update guys |
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Khloe
Joined: 10 May 21
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Location: USA, Los-Angeles
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| It's pretty valuable for you |
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pamelawardtx
Joined: 11 May 21
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Problem players |
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| romefreak wrote: | Hello Fellow Wally Fans,
I am having some serious issues with what I deem to be irresponsible behavior: players who join a game and then go away for 2 weeks. By the way, I have no problem if this happens once or twice, but I certainly do have a problem if the exact same player does this multiple times—over and over and over.
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Many young people are irresponsible in many ways. Young people are particularly irresponsible in matters of education. Many of them simply do not do their homework for a long time in all subjects and then come to the conclusion that before exams they do not have points and they have to do all their homework at one time to be admitted to exams. I usually advise using the cheap essay writing service buypapercheap.net/ that offers homework help to these students because it is quite difficult for students in this situation to cope with all the homework on their own. Many people ask the question of what does student government do and i always answer that it brings all students to the point that they do not understand the lessons, do not understand the material and can no longer do their homework on their own. Of course, there are days of self-government that have a positive effect on friendship in a team, but negatively on student performance. |
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Kandagor
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| I believe the issue of abandonment has more to do not with the abandoners but the abandonees. |
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