Free 'Mr Corsairs 101' society

[Chris Courtiour]

As I understand it this list serves two main functions. One is to allow
players to discuss game relevant info amongst themselves, the second is to
allow ME Games and their player base to discuss game and administration
matters. Clint & Co actively canvass player opinion about company policy on
this forum along as it does not involve personal slanging matches.

Seems to me that 'Mr Corsair 101' is doing just what they have asked. OK the
first salvo was intemperate with some, I believe, unfair accusations as to
Clint's motives but do they want to know how people actually feel or not. As
they thank people for their opinions (even is they foolishly ignore mine
;( ) I assume they are getting what they want. Since then he has put forward
relevant and rational points whether you agree with them or not.

As for anonymity, unless someone is making personal attacks, what's the
problem? How does somebodies identity affect the strength of their
arguement?

So 'Mr Corsair 101' keep on posting I(unless it is something I don't like,
off course).

Chris Courtiour

[symeon_gavalas]

Right,

so make up your mind and give us a break

> My choices are, do their job, pay then more, or
> quit.

Symeon

[arnheim2001]

Hi Clint,

I was referring to my opinions on differential pricing. Obviously the
stupefying force of my arguements about other matters has compelled
you to take note of them but some curious sub conscious reaction to
all your high ethics is presumably causing you to resort to this
fiendish capitalist ploy.

As for the curses discussion, those wise and enlightened fellows at
GSI have altered the terms of the arguement by altering the artifact
encounter procedure, slowing down the acquisition of curses thereby
lessening it's impact. Does give the DS another slight advantage
though.

Cheers
Chris

--- In mepbmlist@y..., Middle Earth PBM Games <me@M...> wrote:
>
> >
> >As
> >they thank people for their opinions (even is they foolishly
ignore mine
> >;( ) I assume they are getting what they want. Since then he has
put forward
> >relevant and rational points whether you agree with them or not.
> *** I was not aware that I had ignored your opinion. I have not
responded
> to that's all. I have taken your points on board as I have in many
> instances. I await your reply on the Curses items that we were
discussing
> for example... :-)
>
>
> Clint

[arnheim2001]

Hi Clint,

I was referring to my opinions on differential pricing. Obviously the
stupefying force of my arguements about other matters has compelled
you to take note of them but some curious sub conscious reaction to
all your high ethics is presumably causing you to resort to this
fiendish capitalist ploy.

As for the curses discussion, those wise and enlightened fellows at
GSI have altered the terms of the arguement by altering the artifact
encounter procedure, slowing down the acquisition of curses thereby
lessening it's impact. Does give the DS another slight advantage
though.

Cheers
Chris

--- In mepbmlist@y..., Middle Earth PBM Games <me@M...> wrote:
>
> >
> >As
> >they thank people for their opinions (even is they foolishly
ignore mine
> >;( ) I assume they are getting what they want. Since then he has
put forward
> >relevant and rational points whether you agree with them or not.
> *** I was not aware that I had ignored your opinion. I have not
responded
> to that's all. I have taken your points on board as I have in many
> instances. I await your reply on the Curses items that we were
discussing
> for example... :-)
>
>
> Clint

[richarddevereux]

----- Original Message -----
From: symeon_gavalas
To: mepbmlist (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: [mepbmlist] Re: Free 'Mr Corsairs 101' society


Right,

so make up your mind and give us a break

> My choices are, do their job, pay then more, or
> quit.

Symeon
RD: Hear, hear!

Richard.




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[Sam Roads]

Hi,

I'm the self-empowered group facilitator (captain) of the so-called GM
team, which includes myself, Clint, Ed and Stu from the office, plus a
selection of our friends. Some of us are quite experienced, whilst the
other half the team have played an average of 2 games.

We're looking for a game, 12vs12, 1650 or 2950, Freep or DS. Variant rules
perhaps (such as anything that helps Rhudaur). 2 week only.

Rob from the office runs the game and is mercilessly cruel to us whenever
we mess up, so you should have a friendly ear if you need edits done ;)

Sam

[marc_pinsonneault]

--- In mepbmlist@y..., "corsairs game 101" <corsairs101@h...> wrote:
> There is little worse than someone that tries to shut someone up,
rather
> than addressing their point.
>
> With automagic, we either pay more for the same service we've been
getting,
> or we pay the same, and get less service, and those choices piss me
off.
> Deal with the points, and quit sending twice as many posts about my
tone, or
> choice of wording, as are being sent about how much crap that
situation is.
>
> The idea of adding a price increase and then a discount for doing
thier job,
> is SOOOOOOO obviously just an arm twist to get us to do their jobs
for them.
> That sucks!

Not that it matters, but it looks to me as if the price difference
actually is very close to the cost in labor for doing the job.

If it takes 15 minutes to enter a set of orders in, you can do 4 per
hour. Here in the US minimum wage by law is $5.25/hour, so the cost
for mechanically inputting the orders is $1.30 give or take.

There is additional info that has to be added, folks send in multiple
order sets, and there is the overhead cost in fixing errors. 15
minutes may be low, in fact.

As far as the rest:

<shrug>
Companies make these sorts of decisions all of the time. They'll lose
a few customers, others will switch to automagic, others won't change
or care. If they guessed right they gain money, and if they guesed
wrong they lose money. Capitalism and all that.

cheers,

Marc

[KEZ_64]

I must say, I am getting sick and tired of reading about people
complaining about Automagic and price increases.

One of the things that has been overlook is a reduction of errors due
to mistyping of orders when entered into the system. This is
beneficial as to reduce grief as you entered an Emi order against an
agent for example, or harly mistyped your orders in.

I for one think Automagic and Meow are worthwhile, just for this alone
and they are FREE...

And the bottomline is you choose to play or not !

So stop bleating and get on with your life !

Kerry Bridge

[Middle Earth PBM Games]

*** Yeh he's a bit of a goit actually to us... if you guys thing you're
treated harshly you don' want to be on our team.

"Harsh but harsh" would be accurate (but we love him for it...!)
Clint (player) (or should that be.... Clintindur74 :-) cough.... (Sorry Sam
- shoot me later.))

Rob from the office runs the game and is mercilessly cruel to us whenever
>we mess up, so you should have a friendly ear if you need edits done ;)