Re: Oly-improvements

From: bonar@math.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)

Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <DB7DrE.8FF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

> In article <3t3os7$d8o@news.aero.org>,
> Scott Turner <srt@sun-dimas.aero.org> wrote:
>
> >However, the perrenial shortage of nobles is an underlying problem.
> >If you're up against your limit of NPs, are you really going to expend
> >NPs to run a noble back and forth between two cities?
>
> Feature, not bug.
>
> Empire-building players would benefit the most from your proposal.
> A player who wanted to do just trade would be likely to have plenty of
> NPs to conduct trade with. The whole point of NPs was to prevent
> players from being able to do everything... a player with too few NPs
> left to trade has chosen to not trade.
>
> -- greg, wearing his designer's hat

I'm not a player of Oly, but I thought I'ld throw in
my support of Greg's comment here.

One of the problems of games like Oly and Atlantis is
that a large faction can effectively do anything that a new faction
can do _plus_ more things at the same time.  A large faction
can chose to treat one part of itself as a new, small, faction and
let that develope just as if it were a real new faction, but with
extra knowledge and extra support.  Thus after a certain level
of development is reached, it is hard for real new factions to
become involved in the game since they aren't much use to the
established powerful factions.

The restriction of Noble Points in Oly looks like it is
meant to help that problem. A large faction cannot treat part of
itself as a seperate, small, faction, because it doesn't have the
same amount of noble points.  So, if trade becomes more important,
then it might become an area where a small fation could be useful
to a larger one.  Of course, if it ever got to the point that
basically all the trading opertunities were being used then this
would not be a niche for new factions to get their start in.
But presumably that is pretty far down the line.

Doug

References

Re: Oly-improvements
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly-improvements
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 04 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Oly-improvements
dave806459@aol.com (Dave806459)
Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Oly-improvements
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Oly-improvements
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 04 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Oly-improvements
dave806459@aol.com (Dave806459)
Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000