Oly: changes in G2

From: Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu>

Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Gentlemen:

Against a recent post, I'd like to say that religion is way too
powerful.  Priests are in vary high demand in G1 because their scries
always work & because they can't be blocked.  I know of some people who
were considering setting up a spying operation & were rather frustrated
to learn that the best spies were to be found in the temples, a rather
odd twist from the character-playing side of things.  I was also very
surprised to find out how much information a scry of a person produced.
I don't see why a divinity has to go droning on & on about a break point,
about the skills a noble knows, etc, to his priest.  The priest should be
happy to just find out where the boy is.

However, if hidden locations were not sequentially numbered & if
priests' scries could be blocked as religious scries could be blocked,
& if the amount of information a priest receive from a scry of a noble
was reduced, the priest would find his proper place, I believe.

I'd also like to see easier ways for a faction to be
inconspicious.  It's hard for someone to set up a theiving lair in a
hidden location if their tower is given away by the civ level.  An
interesting stealth sub-skill would be "CAMOFLAUGH STRUCTURE" (no I can't
spell) which would allow a structure in a hidden location to be hidden
much like a hidden noble & to keep it from influencing the civ structure.

Finally I'd like to second Oleg's old idea that fast Olympia
movement is a bad thing.  While Faerie & Hades should be kept around (&
perhaps other fun areas invented also!  like Atlantis), they should be
designed more like the cloudlands:  one can visit them, but not use them
as a global highway.

All this is designed to give defense a bonus over offense:  a
good way to keep one big alliance from triumphing over its opponents such
that some people think the game over by turn 66 (I'm not saying it is
over, but that people think it might be is significant).

-blathering away,
Mark

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