Re: Olympia Gripes

From: rwallace@tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In <Pine.SUN.3.91.951127154641.14991B-100000@arcturus.oac.uci.edu> Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@arcturus.oac.uci.edu> writes:

>Gentlemen:

>	Russel writes:

>"If you mean, why don't we start fighting each other, the answer is that
>we'd prefer to regard the game as having reached a conclusion than start
>fighting our allies."

>	Well, in an open ended game you can certainly quit whenever you
>feel you're no longer enjoying it.  But to declare the game "concluded"
>simply because you & your friends quit is amazingly self-centered & unless
>you're more persuasive than I think you will be, totally wrong.  Jesus, the
>entire game doesn't revolve around your little cliq!  >:(

Well, clearly it does depend on one's point of view, at least in this
sense:  Considered from a wargaming point of view, the game has
effectively concluded with an AOO victory.  Now, since I do in fact
consider Olympia from a wargaming point of view, I naturally regard the
game as concluded :)  Obviously this doesn't prevent other people who
aren't wargamers from continuing with the game; from a non-wargaming
perspective, there's no such thing as a winner, and the game can't
really be said to have concluded as long as there are still people who
want to play it.

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie

References

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 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