Re: Olympia: Skill points vs Noble Points

From: bill@rses.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)

Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <DCDynz.JJo@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
|> There was a posting a while back that I didn't get around to answering
|> before it expired. It advocated having Skill Points instead of Noble
|> Points. I like Noble Points better, because then you have a tradeoff
|> between a magic faction with a few powerful mages or a war faction
|> with several castles and lots of recruiters (or, given the game's
|> current flaws, lots of beastmasters to breed beasts...) If you created
|> skill points, then factions would end up looking more homogenious, I
|> think. Diversity in playing style is good.
|>

Hmm, I was at least one of the people who mentioned the idea.
	Despite your claims I still think having skill points AND noble
	points is a good idea.  Allowing Skill points to be used as
	Noble points (but not the other way round) would solve your
	objection (you can still have lots of boring nobles), and
	solves my objection that raising a dead character, converting
	them and killing them allows you access to restricted skills.

Characters would start off with SP, and gain a SP every year.  When
	you convert a character however you can only gain an NP from it not an
	SP.  Essentially the only change is that the NP you currently gain
	back from a noble when their body rots, can only be used to buy a
	replacement noble (or increase loyalty of an existing noble), rather
	than buy skills.

To put it another way, don't call them skill points, call them
	Follower points.  Everything remains as it is now, but instead of
	regaining a NP when a body rots (or Last Rites is said), you get
	a FP that can only be used to get a new follower or increase the
	loyalty of an existing follower.

References

Olympia: Skill points vs Noble Points
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000