Re: OLY: breaking Beastmastery

From: bill@rses.vuw.ac.nz

Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <43v38u$45k@stromboli.usc.edu>, whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen) writes:

|> on ways to balance Beastmastery.  Clearly there is a problem and dragons
|> are simply the poster children, not the cause of the problem.  The first
|> time I saw a dragon I told Rich that there was a typo regarding its weight
|> but I understand that he felt that it was too late to make major changes
|> to beast stats and breeding odds in g1.  I agree but of course it should
|> be addressed in g2.
|>
|> TWTW
|>

I agree that dragons should weigh more, but then again I think they
	should fly too :-)

My preferred way of toning down beastmastery would be for certain
	powerful beasts to only be able to breed in particular months.  I
	can't remember who came up with this idea originally, but I think
	it has a certain neatness to it.  It also means that for a beastmaster
	to be able to breeds throughout a year they are going to have to have
	a better variety of creatures (which is in itself harder to accomplish,
	and should slow things down).  Finding out the month(s) that particular
	beasts can breed (and crossbreed) would add another challenge to
	the game.  Adding a maintenance cost seems a kind of clunky way of doing
	it and means that the 'travelling beastmaster' type character is not
	really an option.

B. (who also thinks roads should be added)

References

Re: OLY: breaking Beastmastery
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: OLY: breaking Beastmastery
whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen)
Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
OLY: breaking Beastmastery
rcb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Robert Christopher Butchko)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: OLY: breaking Beastmastery
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: OLY: breaking Beastmastery
whalen@stromboli.usc.edu (Tim Whalen)
Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
OLY: breaking Beastmastery
rcb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Robert Christopher Butchko)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000