Subj : Re: The Arcadian Legends
To   : Scott Adams
From : Herman
Date : Tue Sep 16 2003 03:02 pm

  Re: Re: The Arcadian Legends
  By: Scott Adams to Herman on Sun Sep 07 2003 23:44:02

 >         Its systemic of the game.  We had a TAL33 league but I
 >         dissolved it last month after about 7-8 years due to
 >         no players.  Just folks don't seem to llke it as much
 >         as BRE/FE.

I think it's more a matter of players being used to BRE/FE, but TAL didn't
really enter the picture until after most of the dialup BBSes were declining in
popularity.  It's not so much the quality of the games that keeps them popular,
it's more the quality and quantity of the players.  

Example, on a new telnet BBS that nobody has heard of, a player will log in,
enter a game, see no other players, and leave.  On a BBS with an active
userbase, a player will log in, enter a game, see other players, and will be
much more likely to stay.

TAL could take off, if first time players enter the game, and see that it's
actively being played on even one BBS.

In area code 807, we never had the MBBS craze before the internet took over,
at one time, TAL was about as popular as BRE and FE around here, while in other
cities, MBBSes were the craze.
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