Re: Cat23's Very Own Site

Ok. Thanks for the explanation, Peter. As you put it it seems like 
rather not - but I really don't know.

Luis.

Peter J Richardson wrote:

> A game queue is a list that you can sign up to saying that you wish to 
> play in a game (despite there being no games on offer at the time), 
> and then when a GM opts to start a game instead of posting to 
> Cat23-NGame the GM just goes to the list and takes the first seven 
> names and assigns them seats in his game.
>  
> The drawbacks are that the players on the list may have lost interest 
> for one reason or another by the time a GM picks them off the list, or 
> the seven names may not get on with one another or the particular 
> game. If one of the seven had gone on vacation (for example) by the 
> time they were selected off the list it could take quite a long time 
> to get a game going where the players were chosen from a game queue.
>  
> Regards
> Peter
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>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Luis <mailto:[email protected]>
>     To: Peter J Richardson <mailto:[email protected]>
>     Cc: Cat-23 DipKnights <mailto:[email protected]> ; Cat-23
>     NGame <mailto:[email protected]>
>     Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:32 AM
>     Subject: Re: [CAT23-Ngame] Cat23's Very Own Site
>
>     What is a game queue? Does it mean that if I want to join game
>     no.3 (maybe because it's a variant of my like or whatever) I have
>     to wait for game nos. 1 and 2 to fill up?
>
>     It would only make sense among same type games, standard
>     typically. Otherwise I don't see it.
>
>     Luis.
>
>     Peter J Richardson wrote:
>
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: "The White Wolf" <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     To: "Cat-23 DipKnights" <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>; "Cat-23 NGame"
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:18 PM
>>     Subject: [CAT23-Ngame] Cat23's Very Own Site
>>
>>     > - Chris Babcock has also suggested a game queue
>>     > system, which I personally agree with wholeheartedly.
>>     > It should make filling games a bit quicker and show
>>     > potential GMs where the interest lies, as he pointed
>>     > out. My only concern is that we should give people the
>>     > option of removing themselves from the queue if they
>>     > decide they've been waiting too long, something else
>>     > came up, etc.
>>
>>     Game Queues have been discussed in the past. In the days when
>>     Cat23 was active you could fill a game quicker by
>>     taking seven names off the Cat23-NGame list than you could taking
>>     seven off the queue and then waiting for them
>>     all to confirm that they were still interested. That may not be
>>     the case any more so maybe a Game Queue would
>>     now have a place, though I think that any GM should have the
>>     choice of whether to use it or not.
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Peter
>>
>>      
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