Subj : Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
To   : NICK ANDRE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Aug 29 2024 10:12:00

> MP> My experience is that serious players will play it for quite a while when
> MP> they are first starting their game, but then spend much less time in the
> MP> door once they are maintaining their current game.

> I have at least a few regular callers who play the hell out of Lord, even the
> Inter-bbs leagues I do with Fido and TJ's system.

Yeah, yours is about the only board where I can find anyone to fight with
in League 1.

> I stopped playing TW altogether when others started using those stupid helpers
> and scripts. To me that defeats the purpose of playing a game "fairly" and
> wheres the fun in having several people playing it, just to run scripts back
> and forth. When I started meeting people from Netmails, Echomail, message
> bases on other boards I used to call... that was far more fun.

Yeah, it seems that for some being able to play the game well is more fun
while, for others, being able to "scam" the game is the fun part.  I have
never been good enough at any of them to learn to scam them, so I guess I
am in the former camp.

Mike

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