Re: Olympia

From: dave806459@aol.com (Dave806459)

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

There is something to the argument that geometric faction expansion is
possible because people can run through faerie & then ferret out all the
lairs with prisoners, which allow them to get to more lairs, which gives
them more nobles, etc. etc.

I recall a suggestion made long ago that as a faction grows nobles become
more expensive.  I'd like to revive this proposition:  it makes the
practice of terrorize 99 much less useful & it makes death in big factions
a little more severe (which would balance it seems to me).   It seems to
make sense from a character point of view:  a faction is small in Olympia
because the members know & trust each other:  as a faction grows too big
anonymity sets in:  different nobles may never meet each other, & lack a
basis for trust.  The result:  corruption sets in, distrust & lies spread:
the dark times (this taken from the first few pages of the novel from the
screenplay for Star Wars).

Put simply:  some people seem to have too many nobles.  I wouldn't be
surprised if there was a faction with 40 nobles in it.

I'd also like to throw my support to Oleg's suggestion that we make faerie
bigger, although I admit that to do this at this stage of the game will
ruffle many feathers (those poor dudes who already mapped out
faerie--well......).

These two proposals address directly the problem of a too big too powerful
faction which, it seems to me, could conceivably take over Olympia & make
this open-ended game look rather closed.

-Dave

References

Re: Olympia
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Olympia
morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000