OK, lay it on us - what is up with the future of this magazine?
If you need help (understandable), what do you need?
Edited Oct 2, 2015 05:35 UTC
Issue 10 - Pre-Publication Discussion
Not sure. Not even certain that it has one. Maybe Bernd is just busy. Maybe he's distracted by real life. Maybe he's decided to fore go publishing Issue # 10. Maybe he decided that he didn't like it all being dumped on his head, like that.
Besides, why do you assume that anything is needed, at all? Isn't PBM something old guys did 30 years ago before there was the Internet? Who needs a PBM blankie of a magazine? Don't you want people to move past the whole preoccupation with PBM? Maybe that's all that has happened, here, and the magazine ceasing publication is but a natural outgrowth of that.
Nothing was required to start it. Nothing is required to re-start it. It's not a complicated equation, at all.
I haven't received an e-mail from Bernd, recently, so I am not sure what the remaining obstacles are to the publication resuming, with him at the helm.
I sent an e-mail to Bernd, just now, Rick, to inquire about it.
Patience, Grasshopper.
Issue # 10 is being compiled, now.
Yeah!
Hurrah!
Way to go! Just can't keep a good 'zine down.
Very, very exciting news!
:cool:
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Issue # 10 is being compiled, now.
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Looking forward to it :-)
Good to hear. One game that should get more information in Suspense and Decision is Harlequin's game of Legends. I once played several games in it and Flagship ran several articles on different aspects of it. We need more in this style!
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Good to hear. One game that should get more information in Suspense and Decision is Harlequin's game of Legends. I once played several games in it and Flagship ran several articles on different aspects of it. We need more in this style!
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The funny thing about articles is that somebody has to actually write them.
Are you volunteering, Greybeard?
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Good to hear. One game that should get more information in Suspense and Decision is Harlequin's game of Legends. I once played several games in it and Flagship ran several articles on different aspects of it. We need more in this style!
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The funny thing about articles is that somebody has to actually write them.
Are you volunteering, Greybeard?
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I have not played Legends for many years, and the Flagship articles I wrote seem to be no more. I never kept copies of them, never thinking Flagship would stop being published. That is a great loss. I might consider writing an update on the way the player base of Legends has changed over the years since I played last.
I was in Midgard UK for some time and wrote a couple of articles on it. They are on my Google Drive, so I can at least do a couple of those, and UO:Renaissance. Great stuff!
Is it just me? Or is the compilation process taking a bit longer than usual?
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Is it just me? Or is the compilation process taking a bit longer than usual?
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Oh, it's definitely taking longer. I had to relearn how I used to do it.
Plus, my body has been tired, of late. I was so tired, last night, that I just couldn't focus on it.
I compiled what I call the final draft version of Issue #10, a short while ago, this morning. I am going through it, right now, and checking the various links, to make sure that they work. Thats what led me here, checking the link to PlayByMail.Net located on the bottom of page #57 of Issue #10. I clicked the forum link, while on the site, here, and saw that you had posted a new mesagae in this thread, and I decided to go ahead and respond to it.
A little earlier, I posted on PlayByMail.Net's Facebook page, explaining that it was my intention to have Issue #10 ot the door before 4:00 P.M., today. That's Eastern Standard Time, of course, since I live in South Carolina.
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I was in Midgard UK for some time and wrote a couple of articles on it. They are on my Google Drive, so I can at least do a couple of those, and UO:Renaissance. Great stuff!
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We're trying (in our spare time) to rebuild Midgard into a mostly-computer-moderated web version of the same game. Hopefully it'll be even more fun for you die-hard players out there.