rhondabrwn
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Joined: 9/29/2004 From: Snowflake, Arizona Status: offline
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The big factor intimidating me from doing PBEM is that it locks you into a game partnership for the length of the game, kinda like adopitng a puppy. Sure, it's lots of fun at first, but you are making a huge committment of time and effort to the puppy (or the game). It scares me to think that I just do not have the time or energy to be locked into feeling obligated to send daily turns... and I would feel so bad if I had to let someone down by abandoning a game in progress. At least the AI is totally insensitive if I save a game and then never come back to it again (and I have plenty of partial games out there). I guess I'm one of those people who never master a game sufficiently to even know that there are problems with the AI Actually, if I knew there was some gamey strategy to outfox the AI, I wouldn't use it. If you are going to deliverately take advantage of something like that, why play at all? I never understood my boys downloading cheat codes to give them unlimited funds in Sim City and invulnerability in fighting games and so forth. To my mind, it removed all purpose from the game and reduced any victory to inconsequence. So, if there are novices out there who would settle for a guarantee of one turn a month (maybe more, of course, but no promises), I might be their girl.
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