Re: Oly: changes in G2

From: arendas@telepac.pt (Antonio Joao Rendas)

Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden) wrote:

>Rich says:

>> At the moment I'm favoring
>> something along the lines of John Morrow's suggestion to put a limit on the
>> size of stacks entering lairs.

>One could go further, limiting the number of attackers who can fit into
>a location to less than the number of defenders. If you have to be
>tougher than your prey, man for man or beast for beast, it puts value
>on the Conan type super noble and magic weapons.

>The same principle could be applied to buildings, so that a castle's
>benefit is reduced in how many troops it can hold, but increased in
>that more defenders can engage than attackers can fit through the
>gate at once.

>I agree with Mark Hendrickson's point that the
>Swordplay/Defence/Archery
>increases are pointlessly small, but as well as boosting those
>increases
>could be awarded to a noble for fighting in a battle where he or she
>personally kills something/survives being targetted or whatever.

This would be real good,since it would increase the "Develop Few
Characters" (Role-Play?) aspect of the game versus the "Have tons of
Land" (Strategy?) aspect

>The game would be much richer if the overmighty lords needed to hire
>heroic individual nobles for difficult battles, rather than just using
>millions of beasts and crossbowmen.

Definitely.I started in Olympia because I was looking for a game that
could be played as a strategy game AND as a Role-Play,according to the
choices the player made.It's as if there are two games running at the
same time,in different levels and interacting in realistic ways,making
the game terribly fun for both sides,since each side contributes
towards making the other feel more "moody" and real.

Olympia isn't perfect ( YET? :)) however it's the best out there (the
best I have seen so far,please don't take this as an offense-I have
seen few:) ) and I feel that if the RP aspects of the game get to be
developed,using methods similar to the above and NOT hardcoded
impossibilities,it would be great fun (even more fun that it now
is?:))

In short,the changes seem pretty good to me,but there may be unseen
aspects I do not yet grasp :)

>Jeremy

-AJRendas

References

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
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly: changes in G2
jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)
Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

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
skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)
Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly: changes in G2
jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)
Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000