Re: Olympia Gripes

From: cisco@src.honeywell.com (Cisco Lopez-Fresquet)

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

>>>>> "CE" == Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:

CE> Let me -- for once -- try and speak bluntly.  The AOO is now so
CE> powerful that it can in effect crush any real or imaginable opposition
CE> with minimal effort or losses.  Furthermore the dynamics of the game
CE> are such that this state of affairs seems unlikely ever to change.

CE> Basically there are three alternatives for how the future may develop.
CE> For one, we could go on building ever larger and ever more meaningless
CE> empires, easily beating down rebellions wherever they occur for ever.
CE> That is not much fun either for us, or for those easily beaten down
CE> (at least that is what I'm told).  Or we can declare war on the entire
CE> rest of the world and kill everybody else over the course of the next
CE> game year.  While I admit that there is a certain frisson to the
CE> thought of such a slaughter, in the end slaughtering friendly meek
CE> little barons all over the world is not really the most fun way to
CE> spend another eight weeks and twenty dollars for me.  Or for the
CE> barons.

Let me adress just these two paragraphs, for Carl is worng - and right -
about this.

I feel that the AOO can crush any opposition that *announces* itself as
such.  An error that I admit to doing.  If Seline Fireflower hadn't been
such a mouthy individual, the AOO likely would have left her alone.

However, realise that Seline & co were the mages of only one faction.
Sure, you got my mages, but the ANM has around 10 members, and each one of
them has at least one mage.... They are keeping their heads down, for now.

As an earlier poster mentioned, there hasn't been a true test of the AOO
alliance, as no one has made it that far.  It would be interesting to see
what a successful attack on an AOO faction or two would produce.

In summary, what I am saying is that yes, the AOO has the situation 'in
control'.  But only for the moment.  The $64 question is (for me) do I want
to bother with the 10-15 weeks of work to get myself back in the position
to be a threat to the AOO again?

I am of two minds on whether or not to play in G2.  There is such a long
feedback curve on Olympia, whereas a closed game runs much faster.

- cisco

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References

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000