On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:37:21PM -0500, Dave Ahn wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:42:04PM -0500, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote: > > > > I disagree. There are too many people with bad connections out there. > > Broadband is here. While a lot of people do have bad connections (including > modem-only), I think that most people who try out netrek for the first > time will either already be computer-savvy or be at least network game-savvy. > If their connections are really that bad, then training them for a couple of > hours on their local servers won't go very far in retaining them when they > get rewled repeatedly the first time they login to a real server. As a game player, I am much more likely to futz around with a game where I don't have to worry about other people at first. Playing against other people when you don't have any idea what's going on is intimidating. -Tom