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City:Evanston, IL USA WA
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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Program code error
Subject:Re: why not "retire with honour" ?
Posted by: Bombadil - 18years 335days ago.
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moonglum01 wrote:
Bombadil wrote:
Wertzz wrote:
Our group found that the fuel rules keep the fighting close to the German side of the board which seemed about right for us.


Your group all knew each other. You were friends. You appear to have been playing the game for the fun of it.
Many players on this site know a few other players. Are not necessarily friends, and while most of us play the game for the fun of it, I'd guess there are a significant number who have their own agendas. I appreciate your comments and position, but I just can't see where making those kinds of changes would make this a better game.

Bombadil


??? You might want to reread that post - He doesn't say anything about changing any rules.

most of us play the game for the fun of it, I'd guess there are a significant number who have their own agendas.


Ummmm.... are some players plotting to take over the world?... by playing Blue Max?! I wonder if if Osama, Kim Jung Il, Tiger Woods and Bill Gates are in a game right now plotting to take over the world....

<fade to game...>

Kim: I got you tail Tiger Wuds Hahaha!
Bill: Lets get on with our AGENDA!
Osama: Right after I put out dis fire.
Tiger: Jammed?!
Bill: AGENDA!!!
Osama: 1? I roll a 1?? A Jihad on those dice!!!!!
Kim: It is a CIA plot!
Bill: Oh look I rolled a 6 again!
Osama: You a CIA spy Bill Gates!
Kim: I do you like Hans Blick, Bill Gates, no more take over world with you! You out of 'Take over da world no girls allowed club!'
Bill: Waa


I wasn't going to bother replying to the last comment, I will assume it was ment in good humor, but I'd like to cut to the chase about a number of threads that appear from time to time in this forum.

Often I see people come forward with ways to "improve" Blue Max. I conceed that the web structure of the game is'nt an exact copy of the board game rules. Where the web rules vary, I percieve it as being in areas that don't easily lend themselves to conversion by the webmasters, and/or things they just haven't figured out or gotten to yet. I trurly appreciate their attempt to give us all a web version of a very fun to play board game from the past. I don't know, but I assume they have to keep pretty cloce to the original rules due to possible copywright issuse. I'm not a lawyer, I'm only speculating.

Over the years, I've seen other people who want to improve on this, and other games and have gone ahead and done it. Canvas Eagles for example. Perhaps the best thing for those who want to modify Blue Max as a web game would be to work something out with the webmasters to take a copy of where this game is now, set up their own server and site and have at it. Call it "Red Max", "Black Max", or whatever and you can possibly get around and trademark or copywright issues. That way people who want to play something a little different, can.

I don't want to be getting in anybody's grill about this, it's just some things I've been mulling over as I've read a number of different suggestions over the last year or so.
Keep having FUN! That's what it's all about...

Bombadil

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