Are PBEM and MP the same?

[Chris 62]

MarkG seems to think so.

Even as i write this, he has said that withen 48 hours ALL PBEM threads from the Scenario League and the Spanish forum be moved here, in a subforum.

His word was :

People who play IP=PBEM players.

I think it would be interesting to see what the MP crowd thinks about this.

[War4ever]

well not really...but in a way i guess.... it is a form of mp, but not what i think of when i play the game.....

[Flatlander Fox]

Not at all...

MP= Playing RealTime

PBEM= Playing AnyTime you want.

There's also not the save and reload feature available to MPers either.

[DrSpike]

Well PBEM is multiplayer, because more than one player participates. Having said that most people play PBEM or real time games almost exclusively.

[ColdWizard]

pbem is more akin to succession games IMHO.

"ok, i'm done, email to you"

[Alexander's Horse]

Are Chris 62 and MOBIUS the same?

[SlowwHand]

PBEM is MP, but nothing the same. So I vote it as a 3rd option.

[Rasputin]

a number of MP game sin civ have become so slow in final stages that they become PBEM to keep the game going...

Totally changes the Style of play though as there is no longer any diplomacy involved...

Not my personal preference for a MP game, but still it is MP.

[MarkG]

chris, as i said in the other thread that you misread
= is not !=
or
"=" != "!="

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by MarkG
chris, as i said in the other thread that you misread
= is not !=
or
"=" != "!="

got to watch those tricky analytical symbols...

[Chris 62]

Originally posted by MarkG
chris, as i said in the other thread that you misread
= is not !=
or
"=" != "!="

I'm sure your trying to tell me something, but I think my poll also told you about that a bit.

The two gaming types are seperate and distinct, set up a PBEM forum, fine, but don't shove it into MP, they aern't the same.

[MarkG]

I'm sure your trying to tell me something

ok, i'll try it again more slooooooowly

stop talking to the guy next to you and take notice!

= is the symbol used to show equality between two parts

for example if we say

kitten = cool nice beings

we mean that kitten are what they are


now, here comes the tricky part

!= is the opposite symbol!!
example

People who play IP != PBEM players

which means that the people who play IP are NOT the same with the people that play PBEM

got it?
any questions?
want me to repeat anything?

here are more examples

This forum = Civ2-Multiplaying
This forum != Civ2-IP Multiplaying
IP Multiplaying = Multiplaying
PBEM != IP Multiplaying
PBEM = Multiplaying

[Hydey]

markG that was very funny.

[-Jrabbit]

But if

This forum = Civ2-Multiplaying

and

This forum != Civ2-IP Multiplaying

then where's the forum for Civ2-IP Multilplaying?

Sounds like that means that all the IP-MP threads here are actually off topic... (easily)

[DrSpike]

He means that it's for multiplaying generally, which encompasses both PBEM and IP games. 2 forums might not be a bad idea though.