Re: Olympia musings

From: jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Chapin says:

> The problem I see with this proposal (make skills take many months to
> learn) is that new players won't be able to do anything of note for a
> long time.  When would the first ship have sailed from the IC if it
> took a game year just to learn shipcraft, and another to learn
> shipbuilding?  Closer to reality?  Yes.  More playable?  No.

But this can be fixed by giving players study credits when they start,
several months to be distributed as they wish, perhaps as "claim
study".
This can also contribute to making newbies worth more to established
factions alive than dead, which I always think is a good thing.

> Another option would be to make all base skills (Forestry, Sailing,
> etc.) require a noble point to learn.  Make magical skill classes cost
> 2.  This would allow players to quickly learn new skills, but not have
> everyone in their faction know them (e.g. almost 2/3 of my nobles know
> Beastmastery and its subskills).

This would need the skills categories to be much better balanced, we
wouldn't get the richer specialisation wanted at the start of this
thread if everyone chooses combat and beastmastery.

I prefer the long study time but fast startups.

Jeremy

References

Olympia musings
khearn@pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)
Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Olympia musings
khearn@pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)
Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000