Oly-improvements From: dave806459@aol.com (Dave806459) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000 The recent GM's report makes me think that Olympia could be improved in order to allow different kinds of activity to flourish besides empire-building. Here are my thoughts on what should be improved: Opium harvesting should be changed to allow one to harvest two pieces of opium a day instead of one. This would make opium harvesting easier. More importantly, it would make the improve opium production skill useful (as of now it's pretty useless). The use of this skill with this new rule could bring opium sales up from their current state, zero. The optional seek command (without a target parameter) should require a researchable skill through stealth, a counter-intelligence skill if you will. This still makes it possible to catch sneaks, but it makes sneaking much easier & less dangerous. Another researchable skill under stealth should be added: haggling. This would allow buy & sell orders between nobles & cities (not other nobles) to be adjusted a little each way in the nobles' favor. Thus a noble with this skill could buy for a little less & sell for a little more. The justification for this skill is that it would encourage trading companies both by giving them their own skill, & by making trading more profitable (it just isn't very profitable right now--the GM's report is misleading since it doesn't take into account the original purchase price). On a different issue I'm wondering: is there any qualitative difference between siege towers & catapults & battering rams? A siege tower uses a lot more resources to make & perhaps should have a corrosponding bonus? -Dave Referenced By Up