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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Hiroshi Okada, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Takuya Nakayama, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Masataka Sekiguchi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Bandai, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When a plurality of players play a simulation game in a plurality of user stations connected to a single game management station via a network, each player is not restrained in a game space over a lengthy period of game time while maintaining the reflection of a strategic intention of each player on the progress of a game. A process for player character selection enables the strategic character selection reserved at a suitable point of time by player character selection reservation system to be the effective selection only at a point of character encountering time appearing every fixed period of time. A player character encountering event decision system enables the strategic search route setting reserved at a suitable point of time by a player character encountering event reservation system to be the effective setting only at a point of character encountering time appearing every fixed period of time.