[WarInEur] The nature of the game...{i.e. not for the faint of heart}

[Don Lazov]

Paul,

I looked at that site but could not figure out how to register, nor search on games. I could not find any WIE mentioned here.

???

What am I doing wrong?

--
Don Lazov
~Best Regards

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Paul S. Person" <psplists at earthlink.net>
> Why, yes, AHIKS (http://www.ahiks.com/) has been doing exactly that
> for 40+ years. Granted, they are oriented on paper games, but they do
> arrange PBEM (email) matches, and the newletter had a review of
> Cyberboard. BWIE (any version) is, of course, exactly the sort of game
> they arrange matches for; they might be willing to extend this to
> CWIE. 
> 
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:56:03 EDT, you wrote:
> 
> >Playing CWIE is like marriage or contract IMHO, till death do us part  or if 
> >all the ifs and buts are clearly stated up front. Enter a game only if you  
> >intend to play all the way through to the end, or a mutually agreed to end  
> >point.
> > 
> >While some might want to say or that you can stop play in the middle  of a 
> >game unexpectedly, and play if there is a mutual agreement made  to end, I have 
> >to wonder, if once one side asks to end the game, if the other  side really 
> >has a choice, because you now know the other side doesn't care any  more. What 
> >you say.... Honey we have to keeping fighting on for our Allies  sake!!! : - )
> > 
> >That is why once we get past production, we need to develop some mechanism,  
> >be is a site or blog or central clearinghouse, whatever, that posts who is  
> >looking for games, AND who has dropped off games where the other side wanted to  
> >continue on. That way we can know who will not be a committed long term  
> >relationship. Is there some venue that exists now to post that info?
> > 
> >When I was playing on the Hexwar site, it was very frustrating when  players 
> >would drop out of games without a word. Especially if I was closing on  the 
> >key objective of the game, such as capturing Moscow, and they dropped  out.
> > 
> >Carl
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