Re: Unfortunately... Re: Measuring things...

On Tue, 30 May 2000 09:51:33 -0500, devans@uneb.edu wrote:

>On the other hand, my distance estimation is soooo poor, I like the
option,
>just, I don't measure to more than one or two ships before I know where
I'm
>going. When I was playing opposite some folks at a MageCon, and they'd
>measured for the fifth time in their turn, and stood discussing plans,
I
>was ready to walk away from the table. They were having fun; I wasn't.

That's a good point. When we pre-measure, I look at my ship, look at the
opponents, and pull out the tape measure. I can measure to five or so
ships in
about 10 seconds. I'm only looking at range bands, not actual fractions
of an
inch...

On the other hand, I have a friend who tends to overthink EVERYTHING. He
does
this with every game, be it SG2 or FT or Formula De. A simple prodding
gets
him moving. It would really bug me, though, to be in a game at a con
where
pre-measuring is allowed and the players take forever to move. This is a
common problem with games in general. If it happens once more while
playing
Formula De, I'm going to look for a 1 minute egg timer... or maybe a 30
second
egg timer...

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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