-=> Quoting Herman to Scott Adams <=-

 He> Re: Re: The Arcadian Legends
 He> 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.

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

     True enough.  The days of just going for numbers is over.  Now
     its the quality.  Course that means the same old players and
     same old tactics so the player base tends to equalize :)

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

     Yep.  Courses there are plus and minuses to that.

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

     Yep.  I think the max our TAL33 got up was about 8 boards and
     maybe 16 players.   That was probably 5-6 years ago.  Course
     then you had maybe 20 boards easilly and 70 players in bre compared
     to it.

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

     Not hear.  Jax never had a TAL craze.  Just BRE and FE.  GW and
     a few other games.



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