Re: Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal
"Peter J Richardson" <pjrich-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:11:26 -0000
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------=_NextPart_000_038C_01C4F423.84AEFDF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Looking at the map Russia only seems to have 9 centres. 9 is a long way sho= rt of 18. You don't need to see the diplomacy to be able to work that out. Regards Peter ----- Original Message -----=20 From: [email protected]=20 To: [email protected]=20 Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:01 AM Subject: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal >>Somebody wants to throw in the towel in a *final* in 1903? >>What wimps. :-) I am always struck by the bravado of people who are not playing is a game= to think they know enough to comment. Speaking as someone actually in the= game (and who did not propose the end-vote), the end-of-game proposal make= s perfect sense in the context of the game. Even though the game is only 6 turns old, I have literally hundreds of em= ails from this game to provide a broader context. I'm sure most other play= ers do too, totaling over 1000 emails most likely. To think you understand= the internals of the game by reading a call for an end vote is like lookin= g at a still shot from a movie and saying you know the plot. However, as the game is still going on, it would be silly for me to expla= in all the reasons here. --Bruce The near-death Germany Yahoo! Groups Sponsor=20 ADVERTISEMENT =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wm02-chat/ =20=20=20=20=20=20 b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] =20=20=20=20=20=20 c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service= .=20 ------=_NextPart_000_038C_01C4F423.84AEFDF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>Looking at the map Russia only seems to have 9 centres. 9 is a long way short of 18. You don't need to see the diplomacy to be able to work that out.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV>Peter</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A [email protected] href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A [email protected] href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:01 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>>>Somebody wants to throw in the towel in a *final* in 1903?<BR>>>What wimps. :-)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am always struck by the bravado of people who are not playing is a game to think they know enough to comment. Speaking as someone actually in the game (and who did not propose the end-vote), the end-of-game proposal makes perfect sense in the context of the game.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Even though the game is only 6 turns old, I have literally hundreds of emails from this game to provide a broader context. I'm sure most other players do too, totaling over 1000 emails most likely. To think you understand the internals of the game by reading a call for an end vote is like looking at a still shot from a movie and saying you know the plot.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>However, as the game is still going on, it would be silly for me to explain all the reasons here.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--Bruce</DIV> <DIV> The near-death Germany</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <tt><hr width="500"> <b>Yahoo! Groups Links</b><br> <ul> <li>To visit your group on the web, go to:<br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wm02-chat/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wm02-chat/</a><br> <li>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe">[email protected]</a><br> <li>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <a href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/">Yahoo! Terms of Service</a>. </ul> </tt> </br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> </BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_038C_01C4F423.84AEFDF0--