Re: Real-time or Turn-based?

[Morbus Iff]

>I don't think the transport medium much matters, but IP based networks
>seem to be the way to go, IP is pretty much universal; modems over
>POTS lines will disappear in the near future.

The near future? I don't want to get on a horrible discussion about Bell
Atlantic and their hidden agenda, but working at an ISP in New Hampshire, I
know that no time in the near future will we be totally rid of POTS lines.
We've been trying to get a PRI from them for about 3 months...

>said that long-distance network play failed for them. Not for any
>technical reasons, but because it was much easier for the
>socialization that created the rivalries and the sense of community to
>happen when everyone was frequently in the same room together.

Would there be a way to work around that? Sure, they said it didn't work,
but damn, wouldn't it be great if WE could get it to work? I would think
that network play with Quake wouldn't work - you really dont' have
interaction besides blowing the shit out of each other. But Ultima and to a
lesser degree, Diablo seem to have made a move into a communal bitbucket...

>> The only thing I could think of it this regard is to implement some
>> sort of Wandering Mind mechanic. Sure, we don't want to watch every
>> single bite of my date, but as we boring engage in conversation with a
>> horrible AI (note to self: get Turing on game dev team), we day dream.
>
>Hey! I hadn't thought about flashbacks for the temporal filler! Thank you!

No prob, that's what I'm here for ;)

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