h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've made some changes to the "Commonly Found Features" section. I'm still looking at the rest of the entry.

I've made some changes to the first paragraph in addition to the changes I made earlier to the, "Commonaly Found Features" section. I'm really not too sure if I should remove the game descriptions, some people may find it interesting and it isn't the bulk of the entry anymore. What does everyone think?

Hi!

Your changes are good! I've got a few more small suggestions:

- Bullets in GuideML are Bullet - not Bullet

- In my opinion, the headers would look better if they weren't entirely in upper case

- I'd suggest splitting the introductory paragraph into two, at the sentence beginning "In the modern world..."

- Moving the link to "Chess variations" from the word "variations" to "Anti-Chess"

- There's an unnecessary comma just before footnote 2

- "There are a basically two types of time limits." --> "There are basically two types of time limits."

- "pocket-monkey.com- This site is brand new." I'd suggest removing "This site is brand new" as, even as soon as April, this will become inaccurate.

- oppurtunity --> opportunity. helpfull --> helpful. handfull --> handful. completly --> completely


I hope that helps
RhoMuNuQ

Thanks, I'll get on those right away.

OK

RhoMuNuQ

I've made the corrections, how does it look now?

Even better ... I'll let you know if I think up any more suggestions

RhoMuNuQ

Thanks, you've been a big help

No problem!

RhoMuNuQ

Hello there!
Just had a read of the entry and thought I'd say that I disagree with you stating that not many sites offer real-time playing... There are loads especially for games like chess and draughts and I've come across at least 3 sites that let you play Monopoly on-line, in real-time.
That's another area you haven't really touched on - Playing modern board games (Monopoly, Cluedo, etc) on-line, which is very easy to do and there are lots of sites. Not only that, but if you have the CD/DVD-Rom version of the game you can play that on-line too (advantages - better graphics, sound, no loading times, etc).
Oberon2001

I was going to say the same thing as Oberon, but he beat me to it by 6 minutes.

I've made a few modifications.

Having just read this I think there's still far too strong an emphasis on sites where the games are not played in real time. For example, I've used various sites to play backgammon in real time and these all offered at the least chess and draughts as other options. One of the good points about real time playing that you don't mention is that many sites allow you to chat to your opponent while you play which adds the dimension of meeting people to the reasons people might choose to play games online.

...and also talking to any friends you may rival for their superior luck.

I've added a paragraph on chatting with opponents.
I would like to add some more real time sites to the list of game sites, maybe replace some of the already listed sites, but need to find a few more first.

I've also added a paragraph on vacation days.

Does anyone have any other comments about this?

Just one minor quibble. I think you should mention real-time gaming earlier. For instance in connection with "Another reason is that you can controll the pace that you play at. If you want to kill some time, you can make a few moves and finish the game later."

Oh, and I don't like the quoted paragraph. You can't really controll the pace, you can only be slower than the other player. And likewise you can only "make a few moves and finish the game later" if the opponent does the same.

Thankyou for your suggestion NAITA, I'll try to reword that paragraph.

How does it look now?