RE: Vanilla 1900 vs. "kitchen sink" games

(Quoting Garry)

>
>The conclusions I would suggest are:
>
>A>There is an overwhelming demand for 24hr no-press games. (Possibly of any
>variant.)

I can certainly agree with this. I tend to Master one 24-hr no-press game at 
a time and in all bar one case (I think) they've filled within 24 hours - 
well within - and without any kind of publicity. Read into that what you 
will, but I take it as meaning that people like the idea of getting into 
another game without spending 6 months of their lives stabbing people who 
live halfway around the world. :P


>
>B>Standard 1900 game are more popular than modified ones, but not by as 
>much
>as you might think. Or possibly people are hungry for any game and are
>playing modified games in spite of the rule changes. But if there was that
>much objection to the rule changes I'd have thought that the difference in
>take up would have been more significant.

I'm tempted to agree with the idea that people are hungry to play a game of 
any description - and, moreover, *will* play a game of any description.
When I was new to the USDP, the first game I joined was an Empire game (the 
10-power North American one). Why? Because it was pretty much the only game 
on offer at the time. It really is a classic case of "if you build it, they 
will come". Of course, the flipside to that is that people sign on for games 
which they might not fully understand - especially in the cases of Xtalball 
and Payola.

>
>C>A lot of people are not subscribing to the dpj-games list. How do we
>advertise this better?

Assuming we are still in desperate need of both lists, one theory would be 
to send a reminder about the existence of dpj-games every month. I'm not 
sure of the mechanics of so doing, but that would make sense, wouldn't it? 
Alternatively, if there's some way of modifying the information which any 
new joinee gets on joining the dpjudge group to say "Also, you might want to 
join dpj-games", that might get people moving in the right directions.

Just my two cents.

Harry

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