Re: Olympia: What is to be done?

From: Bob McLain <mclain@tightbeam.com>

Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@taurus.oac.uci.edu> wrote:

>It's up to you:  the game will probably continue with or without you
guys.  But if you want to have tougher opponents in G1 you really should
>break up the dream team.  If this were a closed game I would congradulate you on the formation of your alliance.  But it's not & I =
think you quite foolish for holding onto the AOO as it is.  You guys are good gamers, now do the obvious right thing & break up the =
"lock" you think you have on Olympia.  You look ridiculous arguing that the game is over & that you'll keep playing it exactly the s=
ame.<

I haven't played Olympia in over a year.  I'm not really part of this
thread -- but Mark Hendrickson has violated a tenet that I hold dear, and
I can't stop myself from responding...

Mark thinks that the AOO should do the 'obvious right thing & break up
the lock' they have on Olympia.  Spoken like a true loser.  If the AOO
have, in fact, dominated the game to the point where no one else can
challenge them, it's not their fault.  They played well, and now they're
reaping their reward.  They're the Microsoft of Olympia.

All these 'challenges' from Hendrickson and his friends are an attempt to
*artificially* change the balance of power in Olympia.  You don't ask the
dominant players in a game to break apart just because the non-dominant
players don't like the status quo.  The non-dominant players have a
couple of choices:

1. They can quit the game and go play something else.
 2. They can work with the dominant players.
 3. They can choose goals that don't interfere with the dominant players.

If it were the losers, er, the non-dominant players, I'd try the second
approach -- and then take whatever power, knowledge, and advantage I
could weasel out of the AOO, prior to causing as much damage as possible
from the *inside*.  You beat the big boys by sneaking under their feet,
not by standing them off face-to-face.  Remind me to tell you Lyndon
Johnson's proverb about tents and the direction of one's urine.

Sorry, Mark, but your comments sound like sour grapes to me...

Bob McLain

References

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Olympia: What is to be done?
Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Olympia: What is to be done?
Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000