SpielByWeb

fteplin · Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 70 Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Spielbyweb is simply awesome.

Current games:
Amun-Re
Bus
Hoity-Toity
Reef Encounter
Tikal
Wallenstein

In testing:
La Citta
Santiago

In development:
Caylus
El Grande
Hacienda

Which game would you like to see added? Take the poll! I've added the top ones mentioned in the other post on this topic.

Write-in votes for the poll:
Acquire [2]
A Game of Thrones [4]
Age of Steam [3]
Alhambra [1]
Attika [3]
Lord of the Rings: Confrontation [1]
Mexica [2]
Mississippi Queen [1]
Oasis [1]
Puerto Rico [1]
Struggle of Empires [5]
Tower of Babel [1]
Twilight Imperium [1]
Wildlife [1]

HappyProle · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:22 am Post subject:

No Struggle of Empires?

Big J · Joined: 11 Nov 05 Posts: 3

I'd get almost no work done if Acquire was on here, but I suppose there would be no way that Hasbro/WoTC would allow that.

fteplin · Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 70 Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Byzantium · Joined: 19 Aug 05 Posts: 4

Mississippi Queen ! !

Oldtree · Joined: 09 Feb 06 Posts: 1

L_Hudson · Joined: 25 Jan 06 Posts: 7 Location: Wellington NZ

Age of Steam

L_Hudson · Joined: 25 Jan 06 Posts: 7 Location: Wellington NZ

Age of Steam

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

Oasis
Alhambra

striking_cobra · Joined: 07 Dec 05 Posts: 107 Location: Gloucester, UK

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

I see that Caylus is 'in development'.
Whilst this is, on the surface, a good play by email game in that you want time to think each move, I can't help thinking that there are far too many 'player-turns'. That is, too many times when you take an action then pass to the next player. (Is there a term for this discrete game phase ?)
I did some rough maths based on a real-life game last Thursday.
A typical 4-player game might average 15 rounds. In each round, each player may average placing 5 men. Each man placed also means a man 'actioned' later in the round. So each player takes 10 'moves' in a round (sometimes less, if you can 'action' more than one man at a time). That's 40 'moves' in a round and 15 rounds in a game. That's 600 'moves' or 'player-turns', each then waiting for the next player to log in and take their turn. You could get married and have kids in the time it takes to play this game ! And this is an 'average', not a worst case. Imagine a 5-player game where players are in different time-zones and only manage 1 turn per day at best.
I think I'm trying to say that, in my opinion only, Caylus would not make a good game for this site.

nearsider · Joined: 22 Jan 06 Posts: 42 Location: New York, NY

As much as I like Caylus, I agree that it wouldn't make a great game for this site. Although, in response to freduk, most of the "actioned" workers can be activated automatically, as they don't require a choice. But you still have to wait for people to choose which cube to get, what building to build, how much to build in the castle, etc., so a lot of the activations do require choices.

It would take forever. PBW sites are good for games in which a lot happens on a turn; Caylus is not one of those games, as each turn is quite short.

fteplin · Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 70 Location: San Diego, CA, USA

fteplin · Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 70 Location: San Diego, CA, USA

HappyProle · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

In light of the comments about Caylus being too long, I thought I should point out that Goa (currently leading the poll) would also be a very long game. RyanMC and I figured the number of player turns required would go about as follows (where A is the number of additional action cards -- beyond the guaranteed 8 -- to be dealt with):

2-Player: 128 + A
3-Player: 208 + A
4-Player: 304 + A

For sake of comparison, I think Amun Re can be estimated as:
2-Player: 84
3-Player: 116
4-Player: 148
5-Player: 180