Olympia: Rsearch Combat

From: pepper@strull.ecn.purdue.edu (Pierre H Pero)

Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 15:04:43 +0000

> I'll start with:
> Construct Deadfall   One Week to learn, One to Execute
> Making a trap

Please No !!

The Newbies seem to have enough trouble surviving as it is.
( I am a newbie that started about turn 20 and I have been
"harvested" once already. So maybe I have a slanted view )
Now you want to put something in the game that would probably
end up ringing Imperial City with traps !!
It will make traveling / exploring that much harder.
For if you enter an area that is not explicitly friendly to you,
you will have a chance of falling into a trap.
In short I think letting the players sprinkle the land with
unmaned traps could petrify the game. Every on will grab their
few lands and sit because it could become dangerous to even move.
The only way it might work is if the traps had a short half life.
Lets say at the end of each month there is a 50% chance that a
wandering beast or peasant gets caught and the trap is destroyed.
But this would probably make it to much work for a defense.

Not wanting to be only a critic I reply with some other skills

Fortify Camp
    each man day using this skill gives a +1 defensive
    bonus to the stack for 30 days.
    The man day should not be thought of as being done
    all at once. But represents the little bit of time
    used each day of the month to be a bit more cautious.
    This defensive plus would not be used if the stack attacks.

Find Fort Site
    I dont know if Castles defensive values vary.
    I will assume they dont. A man-week using this skill
    is time used scouting the region for a good
    defensive site. You would get back a report saying
    you have found a +N defensive site and  you can keep
    trying for a better site. If you build a castle, the
    castle would then use the best site you found in the
    region. The castle would then have a defensive value
    of 25+N.

Pierre Pero   pepper@ecn.purdue.edu