Re: Olympia: Auraculum changes

From: lindahl@rt.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000

This is posted on behalf of Ben Wu;

From: "Benjamin Wu" <bfw@icpsr.umich.edu>
To: lindahl@pbm.com
Subject: auraculum notification
Cc: skrenta@pbm.com
Status: OR

Hello Greg,
cc.  Rich.

I agree with you on the auraculum notification and disagree with Carl's
note on rec.pbm.com.  Unfortunately I can only read the newsgroup and
not respond.  So I'm responding to you and thus maybe if you'd like post
this on rec.pbm.com for me.

Auraculum notification to previous owners gives too high of an advantage
to old factions as they do/may have means to hunt down new mages.  I
actually like the idea of giving the new mages the names of all those
that came before it.  But this may give some advantages to new players
and deny old ones and can thus be seen as unfair.

I do agree with Carl that there should be some sort of mechanism for
mage competition.  My idea maybe to have a category listing max aura
potential for particular factions at the beginning of the report.  We
have ranking system for number of nobles, gold, land controlled, skills
spells and places visited, why not total max aura for the faction?

This might introduce an element of competition in the magical aspects of
the game with having to notify anyone of auraculums.

Benjamin Wu (ninth wave)

References

Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
morrow@newton.crisp.net (John Morrow)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Olympia: Auraculum changes
Carl Edman <cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu>
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
bfw@icpsr.umich.edu (Ben Wu)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
srt@aero.org (Scott Turner)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
morrow@newton.crisp.net (John Morrow)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Olympia: Auraculum changes
Carl Edman <cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu>
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
bfw@icpsr.umich.edu (Ben Wu)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
srt@aero.org (Scott Turner)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000