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Old July 22nd, 2008, 09:24 PM
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Default What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaround?

What do you ,players of WinSPMBT ,consider to be an acceptable amount of time to play your turn?

I'll use my current PBEM as an example. I get a turn from my opponent, I play it, I send it back. This might take half a day tops, and usually is much faster. Now my opponent usually takes about 5 days to get back to me.

Do you consider that a long time? Why is a 20-30 min turn taking 5 days on average?

So what are you folks getting for turnaround time?
And what is acceptable to you? What do you consider too much?





The games I play are usually small to medium in order to keep turn time short as possible.
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Old July 23rd, 2008, 12:11 AM
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Default Re: What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaround?

Whenever I PBEM, I use a preferences document that I have saved on my PC. I send it to my opponent to agree with or adjust, so we're both 'on the same page'.

It includes things like:

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Visibility:
All realism preferences ON (settings at 100%)
Fast artillery: OFF
Map Size:
Max. 15% artillery
Onboard arty only (unless otherwise agree)
No assigning artillery until your first move turn
No choosing allies or captured equipment without agreement

I also include:
Turns: 25 (About 7 to 10 turns per week)

I find most opponents average about 7 turns a week.

Personally, I couldn't fight a battle with 5 days between turns, I'd lose the plot. It could be your opponent has taken on too many games. Have you asked him why the slow response?
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Default Re: What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaroun

Two days. (Which incidentally is the time defined by lawyers as 'reasonable response time for e-mail correspondence) Three days if life interferes.

There is such a thing as real life, and after spending nine to ten hours developing software, there are simply times when I don't want to do anything else on the PC.
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Old July 23rd, 2008, 06:34 AM
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At least once per day (depending on the time zone this could go up to three turns per day).
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Default Re: What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaroun

Three turns per week (average; so it's okay if it's less now and again).
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Old July 23rd, 2008, 06:27 PM
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Default Re: What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaround?

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Have you asked him why the slow response?

No , I figure he's doing them as fast as he wants to. There's no point in me trying to rush him, even if it is annoying to me.
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Old July 23rd, 2008, 06:33 PM
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Two days. (Which incidentally is the time defined by lawyers as 'reasonable response time for e-mail correspondence) Three days if life interferes.

There is such a thing as real life, and after spending nine to ten hours developing software, there are simply times when I don't want to do anything else on the PC.
Real life is often used as an excuse when people don't feel like doing something. Doing the turns is either important or it isn't. I mean if one's real life is that hectic, and there's little time for anything else. Why get involved in anything else? One's plate is allready full.

Two days sounds like a reasonable max to me.
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At least once per day (depending on the time zone this could go up to three turns per day).
Are you still retired ? I like your perspective on this.
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Default Re: What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaroun

Till mid September I have all the time in the world, so I can play several turns per day without a problem. In fact winSPMBT is the only game I play now, together with online Renegade, though I do have thousands of games.
After mid September, I will be able to play at least one turn per day, some days more, but not as many as now.

I have 4 running PBEM games, 5 my max so far, and one of them sends a turn every couple of days, one every day one turn, one 1-3 turns per day and the last one 1-5 turns per day. All acceptable of course. If the opponent doesn't have the time I can accept playing only one turn every 3-4 days, but if it goes even more than that, I might have an issue playing with him/her again since by that time I will have problem remembering everything about the game in progress.
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At least once per day (depending on the time zone this could go up to three turns per day).
Are you still retired ? I like your perspective on this.

Try to get in contact with Oldrocky.
Oldrocky will give you 3+ turns per day.

check out this one
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