Re: Oly: changes in G2- generalship skill

From: carl@gergo.tamu.edu (Carl Perkins)

Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <45matk$2eq@news.aero.org>, srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner) writes...
}desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:
}>Then you point out that intelligent players will just stage hundreds
}>of battles against a cooperative ally to increase their experience
}>much faster than those who are playing "as intended."
}
}It seems to me like that's a fine thing.  Certainly you could expect
}to gain experience in battles even if they were staged against a
}cooperative ally.  I'd rather the system recognize this as a
}legitimate tactic rather than try to legislate around it.
}
}The other possibility is to make losing a battle more costly to your
}whole faction than winning a battle, so that few players will be
}willing to be patsies to build someone else up.  (Of course, maybe
}you'd strike a deal to build up someone who would then protect
}you... but that's cool, why forbid that?)
}
}						-- Scott T.

I expect that two simple things solve the problem:
1) A combat algorithm that makes it possible to have the guy you are
  trying to make into super-general get killed.
2) Serious morale problems in the forces of a player who's troops periodically
  get sent off to be cannon fodder for J. Random Ally (anybody who knows that
  their boss is in the habit of killing off troops at whim by sending them out
  to fight battles they are not supposed to win is bound to have a shortage of
  morale).  Sooner or later the troops you send from point A to point X are
  never going to arrive, having run away on the way there - and not
  neccessarily when they are on the way to one of the staged battles.  Or
  perhaps they'll show up, but run away as soon as the first casualties are
  taken by your forces in that battle.  Or whatever other morale problem seems
  appropriate.

--- Carl

References

Re: Oly: changes in G2- generalship skill
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly: changes in G2
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly: changes in G2- generalship skill
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000