Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia

From: johns@unipalm.co.uk (John Sloan)

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:06:02 +0000

desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:

>John Sloan <johns@unipalm.co.uk> writes:
>> The second time I reckon I could easily have flattened the culprit
>> militarily, but it would have taken so many noble-days and orders of
>> training and making and equipping and marching down there to do it, I
>> couldn't be bothered.

>No doubt this will show how dense I am, but I thought that was called
>"playing the game."  If you take that out, what's left?

Quite a lot, actually.  Olympia isn't _only_ a wargame, despite some
people's efforts.  I was there to explore the system, try to find out what
made the economy tick, and playtest the thing.  Just because I don't play
the game the way _you_ would, doesn't mean I'm not playing.

Given the effort involved in constructing the orders to stomp on someone
militarily, I didn't think it worth the effort.  If I want to stomp someone
in a wargame, I play a real wargame.  I played Galaxy, before the order
overhead on that got too big, and I play a lot ftf.

Olympia, I think, was designed as something _more_ than just a wargame, but
the militarists don't seem to let the little guys do their own thing, and I
think that is a little bit unfortunate, to say the least.  The attitude
that there is nothing else to do seems a little myopic.

>                                        David desJardins
>--
>Copyright 1994 David desJardins.  Unlimited permission is granted to quote
>from this posting for non-commercial use as long as attribution is given.

John

References

Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 06 Jan 1995 17:06:00 +0000
Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
johns@unipalm.co.uk (John Sloan)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 13:20:31 +0000
Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 13 Jan 1995 05:08:07 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
srt@sun-dimas.aero.org (Scott Turner)
Fri, 06 Jan 1995 17:06:00 +0000
Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
johns@unipalm.co.uk (John Sloan)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 13:20:31 +0000
Re: Ultimate Goals in Olympia
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Fri, 13 Jan 1995 05:08:07 +0000