Olympia-improvements: Faery

From: Kevin Davis Connery <keradwc@rahul.net>

Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Some possible changes (for Olympia II v2) might be:

1. Faery can only be exited where it was entered (i.e., if I entered at
   aa01, and you entered at bb05, when I exit, I will exit at aa01, and
   you will exit at bb05, even if we use the same exit point from the
   inside. This fits some classic behavior of the faery lands--though
   it doesn't fit them all.

This solves the armies travelling VIA faery, but not the takeover OF
   faery.

2. Exit from Faery takes time; perhaps a month or so is 'lost' for every
   week spent inside, perhaps with some random component tossed in. In other
   words, whenever a unit tries to *exit* faery, that unit is in 'limbo'
   for a non-deterministic period of time; consuming no food, making no
   income, etc. This fits some other classic behaviors of the faery lands
   (stay overnight, and leave 20 years later...). If kept to a low but not
   trivial value this would reduce the in-out-in-out casual use of faery,
   and minimizes the use of it as an army transport mechanism.

3. Make the exit points random rather than fixed. Just because the Faery
   know how to get in and out reliably doesn't mean that everyone with
   an elfstone does. In other words, just because exiting from faery in
   this location gets you to aa99 this time, doesn't mean it will always
   do so. (Or, risking a long term problem, make the exit locations
   time dependent: day of week, or season, or month, or such.)

All of these keep the extra 'space' available for exploration and conquest,
but do not permit that extra space to become a vehicle for other game
distortions.

--kdc

rec.games.pbm

Olympia-improvements: Faery

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