# of Players for DiTV ?
lumpley:
I don't follow! Try again with different words?
-Vincent
chance.thirteen:
I regret injecting the silly.
I was repeating your numbers back to you in another form.
You say a typical game has 1 towns probelsm which equals about 3 Dogs worth of action.
1 dogs action is worth about 3-4 hours.
So a typical town has about 3 X (3-4) or 9-12 hours of total play built in. in THEORY one Dog might do a whole town in 9-12 hours, 2 in 4-6, 3 in 3-4, and 10 in one hour.
lumpley:
Oh! No, one town requires about 3 Dogs' worth of action to deal with, and also requires 3-4 hours of real-world play. So each Dog's portion of the town, one Dog's worth of action, requires an hour to an hour twenty of real-world play.
1 town's problem = 3 Dogs' action = 3-4 hours play
1 Dog's action = 1/3 town's problem = 1-1.3 hours play
It is already kind of silly to try to formulatize it like this, but the point is that if you have a fourth player, you still have only 3 Dogs' worth of action in the town, so not every Dog can have a full share. Four players can work okay, everybody gets a skimpy game, is all. But if you have five players, odds are somebody's going to be effectively a spectator.
-Vincent
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