What do you consider acceptable PBEM turnaround?

[reverend]

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.

[Pyros]

At least once per day (depending on the time zone this could go up to three turns per day).

[narwan]

Three turns per week (average; so it's okay if it's less now and again).

[Skirmisher]

Pyros said:
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.

[Wdll]

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.

[Pyros]

Skirmisher said:

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
Oldrocky post at Blitz

[Skirmisher]

I think I might have trouble keeping up to three or more turns per day. But on the other hand I haven't played a turn in my current game for about 6 days now. Each day I get no turns in my email.
I want to see what my cluster munitions are going to pop next!

[PanzerBob]

Me, I have 3 Campaigns and 1 Scenario going I try to shoot for 1 turn a day, occasionally other things come up. If I know I'm not going to be sending turns out, especially over several days, I'll send an email out to that effect. I think most people do try to get the turns out, me I'd rather see well-done turns than rushed. IMHO

[Skirmisher]

How are those PBEM campaigns working out? Is it basically like playing an AI campaign,except its not the AI?

As far as turns being well done, thats a big reason I try to keep unit counts down at all costs in a PBEM. If your dealing with huge armies on the largest maps, it's expected that it will take much longer to process.

The game I'm currently waiting for is small. France (me) vs Netherlands 2008 It's a 100 H X 120 W map, but we only get 5700 points each and 2 air. So theres not an excess of units on the map. Turns are quick. Shouldn't take a week to get a single turn done.

I have also played a few opponents (who I won't mention) that completely forget about an ongoing game, and it never gets finished. The last such game I was doing pretty good in too, then boom nothing.

[Skirmisher]

reverend said:
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.