Re: "Olympia" - any good?

From: jeremy@insignia.com (Jeremy Maiden)

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

> Noble points are not, in themselves, unbalancing.  In fact, they help
> to preserve the balance, as young factions grow at the same rate as
> old factions (everyone gets 1 noble point/year).  That means that,
> independent of acquiring noble points by other means, an old faction
> will always have a constant lead on a young faction.  As they both
> grow older, the younger faction will have a higher percentage of the
> noble points of the older one.
>
> Steve Chapin

I think one could go much further than this effect to improve balance:
giving existing players new noble points adds to their advantages in
resources and knowledge when they can already get extra NPs in various
ways. Would it be better to give new starters more NPs according to
turn number, but no extras for those already playing?

There was a gesture in this direction about turn 20, when late starters
got some bonus gold, but the people coming in now are really quite a
long way behind the rest of us. (Eg I fell out with a turn 50 starter
recently, and he was wiped out the next turn, which wasn't much fun
for either of us).

Jeremy

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Re: "Olympia" - any good?
rhdlamb@ix.netcom.com (Robert Lamb)
Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000