I once had 5 or 6 monster PzC games going on at the same time. (With the same opponent, BTW) It was a bit much, and we burned out. It got hard to be sharp on any game, it became one Russian army after another...
What's your max sustained games going that you handled?
The most I've played at one time was a eight. I average 6 turns per week per game. I've set no limit to number of games, currently I have 10 active games and beginning 3 more. I believe playing a wide variety of players have kept me from burnout, no two players play alike so gaming hasn't gotten stale.
I'm a teacher so I spike pretty high in the summer...I got up to 10 or 11 at a time last summer. I try to not do more than 5 otherwise...gets a bit overwhelming...of course I have 7 going right now...warming up for the busy season! :smoke:
Warm up is important, you don't want to pull anything :).
Rick
(03-18-2011, 12:14 AM)Ricky B Wrote: [ -> ]Warm up is important, you don't want to pull anything :).
Seriously guys - if you are doing many games at once, I would strongly recommend you get in a habit of regularly rebooting.
DO NOT open and Minimize more than ONE John Tiller Title at a time.
If you have say Two games of Tunisia on the go, and you play one battle with opponent A, then CLOSE the Game, Open it again before you Start you next turn with Opponent B.
Under the hood, Windows writes everything to memory.
When Memory gets full, it writes the info to a SWAP file on the HD.
When you finish a turn or a game, this info is transferred to a holding file and then to your game PBEM file.
Now has anyone every had their PC do something funny? Fact is sometimes windows gets confused and if you do things in different games which are save to same file names from one title to another or one battle to another, then sh!t happens in replay files ect.
Best way to avoid these things is to reboot occasional, only one one game at a time, close a game and reopen it between battle files and minimize the number os times you save and reopen a file.
Glenn
Too true...too true!!
I learned this the hard way...I used to open different games within the same title and I corrupted the game file of a campaign game...not pleasant at all!
Now I exit the title & start it up again for each seperate game I play...never had a problem since!
When I used to play this game more than I do now I had anywhere from 12-15 games going at one time
Two campaign games at once was more than enough for me.
I would be more concerned over the guys playing the same scenario/campaign again and again, or variations thereof and playing against unsuspecting opponents.
Practice makes perfect and being familiar with the terrain makes it a turkey shoot.
(03-18-2011, 02:04 AM)Lowlander Wrote: [ -> ]Two campaign games at once was more than enough for me.
I would be more concerned over the guys playing the same scenario/campaign again and again, or variations thereof and playing against unsuspecting opponents.
Practice makes perfect and being familiar with the terrain makes it a turkey shoot.
That's on the opponent though...I always check to see if my adversary has played the game multiple times, then politely suggest an alternative if it's the 7th time he's played a particular side in a particular scenario :rolleyes:
Of course, someone new might not be aware of the sharks in the water...
(03-18-2011, 12:49 AM)Glenn Saunders Wrote: [ -> ]Under the hood, Windows writes everything to memory.
When Memory gets full, it writes the info to a SWAP file on the HD.
When you finish a turn or a game, this info is transferred to a holding file and then to your game PBEM file.
It's not actually windows but the programs themselves that are "sharing" state/files that causes this issue. Separate processes in windows don't interfere with each other unless "programmed" to do so. Just only open one copy at a time.
Most I've had going at once is 11 campaigns. Fun, but not recommended long term.
Fury