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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: Turn lenght (6/11/2012 3:15:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Icedawg
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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Not counting watching the previous turn, about 20-30 minutes.
Wow! I don't even get through altering my LBA orders in 20-30 minutes. Come to think of it, I may not even finish my between-turn-bathroom-break in 20-30 minutes!
I just checked a summary of my Meyers Briggs personality profile - INTJ - and found this quote. INTJs "are the supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against their current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency." That's me as I do my turn - trying to imagine every possible move the opponent (to now just the AI) can make, and developing ideas for dealing with all of those possible moves.
I'm guessing the moose might be an ESTP.
From the same website: "Enthusiastic and excitable, ESTPs are "doers" who live in the world of action. Blunt, straight-forward risk-takers, they are willing to plunge right into things and get their hands dirty. They live in the here-and-now, and place little importance on introspection or theory. They look at the facts of a situation, quickly decide what should be done, execute the action, and move on to the next thing. . . ESTPs have a strong flair for drama and style. They're fast-moving, fast-talking people who have an appreciation for the finer things in life. They may be gamblers or spendthrifts. They're usually very good at story telling and improvising. They typically makes things up as they go along, rather than following a plan."
Is that a close approximation Bullwinkle, or is it way off?
I've taken M-B three times--in grad school, in a job interview, and at a corporate retreat--and I've been an ESTJ every time.
"Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans."
I am very decisive in my personal life, true, and people who've worked with me would certainly vouch for that last bit, aka " he's an a**hole." [:)]
I'd agree with a lot of what Nik said. Almsot nothing in the game needs to be done every turn. My turns are 20-30 minutes, but every turn is different. You check LBA each turn; I set a good level of Rest, give missions, and check in on the summary sceen every few turns, top-sorting by fatigue and then morale and only fixing what needs fixing. Every game month or so I do a top-down review of target strategy. For evolving campaigns which need to hand-held I do that, but harassment, supply-denial, port damage efforts, etc. the guys in the squadron know what they need to do. I don't have to loom.
I find the ship repair game really fun, so I spend time every turn fiddling there, optimizing and shuffling the queue as needs arise. But if there, as in many places, you aggressively use the sorting funcitons in the interface, you can get in and out of PH's repair plan in sixty seconds a turn or less. Ditto sub warfare, another interest. Three minutes, tops, unless I'm coming off a block upgrade and need to build a lot of zones. Even then though I usually do ten or so a day. It gets tiresome, and even a major fleet base coudln't flush thirty boats in a day.
I spend a decent amount of time on a first turn as the Allies, but there again people reporting they spend eight hours or something is crazy to me. Not everything HAS to be done the first day. It's a long war. I flush the ships out of HK, the DEI, the PI, and set up patrol zones and the like, but if I don't get to re-jiggering Oz port expansions until the end of the first week it's not the end of the world. That's more or less my philosophy on everything--it's a long war. If I was spending four hours a turn I'd stop playing. To me the end is as important or more so than the journey, but I don't collect stamps either. I've known people who can spend hours looking at them through magnifying glasses, marveling at the engraving and noting flaws. That's not me.
Is one or the other "better"? No, but when you're built like me playing fast, aggressively, and keeping goals in front of mind rather than the condition of every pilot in the DEI is the only way to win, and I play to win as quickly as possible and as violently as needed. If I took four hours a turn I'd lose my place in the book, wander off, and be meat on the table for the AI. I sometimes wonder what a PBEM game between me and some of the more introspective types would look like. I'd get creamed on the details for sure. But I might do well on the hey-diddle-diddle-right-up-the-middle parts. Sometimes in war the safest course is the most dangerous course.
Reading the other OT thread on M-B it looks like us E types are thin on the ground in here, let alone ESTJs. Interesting, but probably not surprising given the structure of the game. I would also note that AE gets less than half of my game time. I also play COD and similar high feedback, intense games.
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