OLY: breaking Beastmastery From: pepper@smead.ecn.purdue.edu (Pierre H Pero) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000 My 2 cents. I belive noble points were an attempt to limit exponential growth. They mostly succeded in that. But beastmastery left a loophole that a truck has been drive through. Therefore any "fix" that does not address the exponential growth aspect of beastmaster will probably not work. If you break only dragons. Some other creature will be the beast of choice. If you only slow their exponential growth. It will only delay when the battle stacks appear. So some ideas to stop exponetial growth. Some creatures wont breed if over crowded. Only the 1st N creatures of a type in an area breed or if there are over N creatures of a type in an area none of them will breed. Some creatures breed only in the right enviroment. give creatures terrain types and they breed only in those terrains. These two put together could yeild Dragons can be breed if there are only 2 dragons in a mountain area. Rats can be breed only if there are less than 100,000 rats in any terrain. Another reason beastmaster has exponetial growth is that there is no upkeep. It seems odd that it costs nothing to keep 100 dragons around. If nothing else it seems they would eat most everything in an area and reduce its tax base. Pierre Pero pepper@ecn.purdue Referenced By Up