Rado S wrote: > =- Mark Mielke wrote on Tue 1.Apr'08 at 17:07:19 -0400 -= > >> Might it be possible for you to express your request in two lines >> for those of us who are too slow to follow? Something with >> substance, that can be answered in two lines? >> > > 1) Netrek is a game, games need fairplay, netrek doesn't have it. > 2) Dealing with fairplay in netrek would turn more people active. > 1) Netrek rules have been 'fair' since the beginning. If anything, the rules have been against anything that would upset game play in the standard mode, precisely because people like the game to be fair, without surprises. Even though I haven't played in over a year - I could jump right back in and start ogging away. 2) I think you are speculating without evidence. The decline of Netrek is due to many factors, none of which have to do with 'fair play'. Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark at mielke.cc> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20080402/90bb8143/attachment-0001.htm