Telemecus
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Thanks for giving me time to get back to you - I wanted to make sure I contacted all in the team, and with different time zones, people travelling and so on it needed a while to communicate with everyone. At the beginning we said we would not see each others threads and it said so in the very first post of the sign up thread. A game of War in the East takes a lot of time normally, and we have put maybe more time into making this team game work. And being a team game means we need to communicate with each other so it is more exposed than a solo game. So it can feel bad and that you have had your time cheated from you if it looks like this has been taken advantage of. As the issue is it can look like we have an unfair advantage in knowing Soviet team information I thought it was best to address that directly. Can I suggest we give everyone on the Soviet team all information about the Axis side from the first turn until and including this one. I will make screenshots to cover all the hexes we control in the Soviet Union now. Also I will collect up all of the detailed team instructions for every turn. Some of it is still scattered in private messages and files, so it would take me a little while to collect absolutely everything together - but I will do that during this turn and post when it is complete. I would like to do this anyway for our AAR as a future record that anyone can use. It includes very detailed things, like how much rail cap we each use, so a lot of it may be boring unless you are interested in that too. I can put these in the game dropbox for all to see and post them in the thread for both sides. And you should be able to look at and post in our AAR until we send the save for this turn back to you. Basically it would mean we have nothing left that is confidential. As this would at least match everything we could have seen from your AAR we could not have any advantage. And as there would be more than that it would mean it would have been to our disadvantage if we had deliberately seen the others AAR. Does this seem fair? It is something we need to know from all the Soviet team as I know if it does not you will lose the motivation to play and we have no game at all. I know M60A3TTS' messaged me with the suggestion to freeze armies for a turn. My worry with that is it could create new contentions rather than solve the one we have. Someone can always say that it was not enough, or that it was too much and was used to change the game. Again it could leave players on both sides demotivated and see them leave. There is no objective way of knowing, and it is not necessary as we can exactly match and go further in the exact issue of information. It also opens the pandora's box of what happens next time, there have been so many occasions of this that it probably will happen again. The game would become so distorted that players on both sides might just not feel they are playing War in the East anymore. I think we also need to pause the game for a while to work out a solution. I think it was when the first game file came from the Soviet team that I rushed in and posted a whole message before realising it was in the Soviet forum - presumably it is still there. I have been looking at the forums almost daily and clicking with abandon on different threads. So, but for a bit of luck, it could have been me. Given that it could cause so much anger or distrust it is something I want to do more to avoid now. I do n't know if there is a software solution. Or maybe I just have to accept that during this game I have to change my habits and not look at the forums regularly, casually or while multi tasking; or even at all. But I do need to work something out, and the others in the Axis team and I imagine Soviet will want to as well. There is the bigger issue of trust and fun, and if we have lost that then anything else we do will not make a difference. Do players on both sides feel if we do the above it will make the game good again?
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