Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)

From: srt@aero.org (Scott Turner)

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Ben makes some interesting points in his article.

In my experience, the only egregious problem in Oly G1 was the obvious
strategic value of beast stacks for combat.  It was too easy to build
them and too cheap to maintain them.  It seems that slowing down
breeding some and adding a maintenance cost would address that.

I've never agreed that Hades and Faery provide too easy and fast
travel around the map, but as a number of players think this, I can
see why adjusting it might be popular.

But overall, I think it is a mistake to eliminate everything that
people complain about.  Everyone tends to complain about the part of
the game that doesn't go right for them.  If you address all these
complaints you end up removing all the interesting parts of the game
until you just have a very generic playing field.

Take auraculum notification.  No doubt the players who auraculated
later in the game complained that notification put them at an unfair
advantage.  Strictly speaking, that's of course true.  But doesn't
that add some spice and interest to the game, knowing that if you do
this thing you'll be challenging a power structure?  Doesn't it make
it interesting to rush to be the first to auraculate?  It makes the
decision on when to auraculate interesting as well.  Wait, and be more
powerful?  Or auraculate sooner and get the drop on others who follow?

Whether that spice is worth the "imbalance" is an open question, but I
do think that grinding down all the spice to get perfect balance is
not necessarily a good thing.  Of couser, I'm open to hearing other
opinions :-).

-- Scott T.

References

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

Referenced By

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