Re: Oly: changes in G2

From: khearn@pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)

Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <44ucs2$9ea@news.aero.org>,
Scott Turner <srt@sun-dimas.aero.org> wrote:
>Here's some changes I'd like to see:
>
>(1) Fix the combat system.  This went around and around on the defunct
>    Oly design mailing list, but I think most players are in agreement
>    that the combat system is broke.

I don't think the combat system is too badly broken. It mainly needs
  tuning to make more advanced troops powerful enough to be worth the
  effort.

Beastmastery, on the other hand, is broken. Being able to have a stack
  with hundreds of beasts, each more powerful than the best human
  troops, and to never pay a dime in upkeep is crazy. Being able
  to make moe beasts with less effort than the humans that they
  outclass is also a problem.

>(2) Add an anonymous mailing capability, so that I can send mail from
>    one of my nobles to another noble *without revealing myself*.  It's
>    a simple addition and one that I think adds to the roleplaying
>    capabilities.

Send mail to help@anon.penet.fi for info on how to use their anonymous
  mail forwarder. It should do what you want done.

>(3) Make the world more difficult to explore.  Reduce or eliminate
>    scrying.  Make sublocation ids non-sequential (*).

I agree. I couldn't believe it when I realised that they were
  sequential. It makes exploring a joke.

>(4) Inject some more rare resources and make them important to
>    power-gaming.  In G1, only mithril and gate crystals are really
>    rare, and they don't play any role in most factions' plans.  To be
>    a powerful anything (mage, thief, beastmaster, weaponmaker, etc.)
>    ought to require obtaining some rare, difficult resource.

This has pros and cons. If the resources are too rare, then whoever
  finds them first has a big advantage. If mithril swords and armor
  make your troops nearly unbeatable by normally armed troops, and you
  control the only known sources of mithral, then you will be nearly
  unstoppable.

If there are sufficient, widely distributed sources of mithral, then
  the advantage is lessened, since it's unlikely that one
  faction/alliance can get control of them all early on.

Keith Hearn
  House Greyfletch - oly g1

References

Re: Oly: changes in G2
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Oly: changes in G2
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000