Re: Me-pbm: camping in the times of yore.

From: Mark G Jaede <jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu>

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Stanley, the Daredevil Crow! wrote:

> Allright then grab all you can; but after the limit is hit scout around.
> If you find a good hex downgrade a pop center to a camp and then abandon
> camp & make a new one in the new place. I suppose you'd only want to do
> that if the place you were abandoning was still just a camp since it
> costs so much to make a city or what have you(cost to make a city=30k).
> No one is going to waste orders trying to build a new camp if they know
> the limit has been hit so you should be able to abandon camp and build
> camp without interference.

"Stanley,"

You're the guy who has not played the game, right? I hope you won't take
offense when I say that you need to stop with the speculations and play
already. If you would play at least one game you would start to
appreciate how unproductive this particular line of reasoning is.

First, you need to grasp that you will never have enough orders to do
all you want to do, and a great deal of good play consists of weeding
out the orders you don't absolutely need to give or could postpone for
one more turn. Scouting hexes is almost invariably a non-essential
order. Doing it involves moving an agent and issuing the scout order.
You get info on just one hex, which probably has just average
production, and then you move on and do it again. Your agent doesn't
advance in skill, he doesn't kill any enemies, and you haven't
constructed any camps. It's just not worth it. Scout Hex is only
worthwhile on the occasions when you have an agent going somewhere and
he has a spare order you don't know what to do with. And if you are
using your agents well you are very rarely sending them into random
empty hexes. More likely they are in pop centers to guard your
characters or hunt for enemies or steal gold. The main benefit you will
get from Scout hex will be the ID of an enemy army commander.

As to the business of abandoning one camp to build another one with
better production, it too is so inefficient in use of orders that you
should probably never do it. Further, there is no guarantee that you
would be the one to get the new camp slot created by the abandonment of
your own camp. Far more likely it would go to some other nation trying
to create a new camp in the same turn.

--
Mark G. Jaede: jaede@acsu.buffalo.edu

References

Create Army=5000gold
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Create Army=5000gold
shivan1dgn@aol.com (Shivan1dgn)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: agents, scouting, and bears, oh my!
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: agents, scouting, and bears, oh my!
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM>
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: camping in the times of yore.
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Create Army=5000gold
shivan1dgn@aol.com (Shivan1dgn)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: agents, scouting, and bears, oh my!
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: agents, scouting, and bears, oh my!
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM>
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Me-pbm: camping in the times of yore.
"Stanley, the Daredevil Crow!" <samcraig@io.com>
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000