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

From: jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Rich says:

>   1. Are any new imbalances potentially introduced by any of these changes?
>   2. Will any critical G1 imbalances persist despite these changes?

You've plugged most of the NP leaks between factions, but I'm not clear
about potions of slavery: as well as possibly killing the noble do they
also charge the recipient the NPs? If not then the imbalance caused by
legacy nobles remains almost as bad as ever.

On breeding: if players conduct simulator contests between groups of
each species costing the same time to make (allowing for probable
losses), will all types seem worthwhile? Ie any that are weaker than
the best value in combat need an unmeasurable compensation such as
flying or low weight.

On sea-land movement: it now costs 8 days to land in forest? This
makes exploring by sea drastically less appealing than before, assuming
the map is still secret. (I agree the one day coastal crawl business
was daft, but this seems an extreme reaction)

On NP conservation, paying 1 NP for resurrection is about the only way
to permanently damage your faction, making highly skilled characters
unattractive. This seems to push the balance in favour of large
factions
of bland nobles. Perhaps the inconvenience of death could be kept by
a lesser penalty, rather than making it fatal in almost all cases.

On movement, the general trend to make beast armies less universal
suffers a severe blow in the movement penalty for stacks with a lot
of men and few nobles. Only allowing 10 men per noble prevents any
mobile stack being big enough to take on even modest beast armies,
maybe not even the NPC monsters. It would be _really_ nice to have
viable human armies   :-)

There's a minor error in the weights of knight and elite guard, which
should be 1100 with the new big horses.

Generally, it looks marvellous, sign me up!

Jeremy

References

Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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Olympia proposed G2 changes, for review (long)
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000