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

From: lindahl@rt.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Scott Turner (srt@aero.org) wrote:

: 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.

Indeed. Which is why Rich didn't do that. I complained about a couple
of spells which are being kept.

: Take auraculum notification.  No doubt the players who auraculated
: later in the game complained that notification put them at an unfair
: advantage.

Yes. But it's possible to figure out the game value of a rule without
considering the personal impact of the rule change. That's how I
evaluate all rules. It's dangerous to view any complaint as just being
sour grapes; we have to discuss concrete specifics and look at every
rule from both sides.

Auraculum notification is bad for a long term game; we don't want to
give a big bonus to the first person to do anything, even if it
happens to be me. There are other ways to put powerful mages into
competition with each other, ways which do not merely reinforce the
power of the powerful. If anything, notification ought to work in
reverse so the newly auraculated mage learns whom he should run
from. :-)

What we saw in G1 was the worst case for the old rule: the people
being notified had the power to wipe out anyone they were notified
about. There are probably a ton of mages who could have auraculated
and simply haven't. Is G1 better off as a result? Well, it's more
peaceful...

-- g

References

Re: Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
srt@aero.org (Scott Turner)
Tue, 26 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