Re: Oly-improvements

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3tqg3p$7vd@news.aero.org>,
Scott Turner <srt@sun-dimas.aero.org> wrote:

>I'm not convinced that Faery is unbalancing simply because it permits
>the fast movement of armies.

I define space games as being games which you can cross the map
quickly, and fantasy games as being games where you can't cross the
map quickly. But I digress.

>  But that doesn't have anything to do
>with the original discussion, which said that trading isn't feasible
>except through Faery.  You (or Oleg, whichever personality was in
>control at the moment :-) made that assertion several times, but as
>I pointed out, there are several alternate transportation modes
>available that are at least competitive with Faery,

Well, you can point that out, but quite frankly, I doubt you could
come up with a single city-to-city trade route which you can do faster
by ship than by using Faery. And the smaller your continent is, the
closer the Faery Hill on it is, so, from a game design point of view,
anyone who controls Faery has achieved great power to carry the war to
any point on the map, very quickly. That's what's unstablizing about
it.

-- greg

References

Re: Oly-improvements
bonar@math.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)
Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly-improvements
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Thu, 06 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly-improvements
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly-improvements
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000