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MarcelJV -> RE: PBEM efficiency ....... (8/8/2005 6:41:23 PM)
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The all North American games can work. If you have 8 players and 2 in each time zone (EDT, CDT, MDT, PDT) then you can do a turn a day. The key is to have the order of play follow the east to west movement of the sun. This will speed up the game greatly. You can start in any time zone, but after France is decide the rest need to go in a east to west flow.
Example.
Country-----Time Zone
France-----MDT
Britian-----MDT or PDT
Sweden-----PDT
Prussia-----PDT or EDT
Austria-----EDT
Russia-----EDT or CDT
Turkey-----CDT
Spain-----CDT or MDT
Even with this in place I would expect no more than 1 day a turn, but most likely 1 turn every 2 days. In my current 8 player game we get about 1 turn a week, maybe 2 if we are lucky.
The assumption with this is that each player could play their turn after working hours and pass the turn on to the next player, this way in about 4 -5 hours everyone will have played the turn.
It would be better if you can find 8 players in the same time zone to play TCP/IP then PBEM. That way you get to fight detailed combat against each other.
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