Re: Advanced Civ

From: rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney Schuler)

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 02:37:16 +0000

In article <CI4z8G.BF8@freenet.carleton.ca> ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson) writes:
>In a previous article, rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney Schuler) says:
>>In article <CI3AHL.8Hy@freenet.carleton.ca> ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson) writes:
>>> [thinking about advanced civilization by email]
>>> [Asks for suggestions for trading]]
>>
>>How I would do it:
>> [Centralized Database Idea]
>For the CDB are you talking about all kinds of software or just a guy
>doing it manually? One of the problems of trading over a long period is

Either.

>that you can get a ton of points in one turn, as opposed to real-time
>version where there's a time limit. You would probably have to say that

Have a holding limit.  If after a trade you are over a preset number of
cards some must be spent on civilization cards or discarded before you are
allowed to trade again.  I think that re-trading should be allowed.  This
allows some semblance of three (or more) way deals.

>you can't re-trade cards you were just traded, just to put a limit on it.
>>
>>> [Asks for suggestions for movement]
>> [suggests 1 player moves per day]
>
>Movement would be tricky. Even if you had 1 move per day, you would have
>to send the results to all the players for each move. Your looking at a
>fairly long time lag. You could just have simultaneous movement, except
>for those with military, but that would eliminate a critical part of the
>game. It WOULD allow for greater expansion, however, since what inevitably
>happens in the realtime version is that you attack someone, get big, move
>first, get crushed, move last, attack back etc.

Since moves are public knowledge just set up an email list that sends the
positions after each day's move to all players.

>As for calamities I think they should be done randomly. I never really
>understood why players got to choose what other players lost during a
>calamity, except as an alternative way to attack. If you did
>it randomly you wouldn't need to contact anyone, just dish it out.

True.  I agree, just had not thought it completely through.  Opposing
player controlled calamities bring some balance to the game.  ie My
neighbor, Egypt, is looking strong, I'll have the famine effect them worse
that the other civilizations.

Rodney Schuler
Nuclear Engineering      Remember: One, JUST ONE thermonuclear device
Iowa State University              can ruin your whole day!
rschuler@iastate.edu

References

Re: Advanced Civ
rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney Schuler)
Wed, 15 Dec 1993 21:38:26 +0000
Advanced Civ
ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson)
Wed, 15 Dec 1993 18:39:21 +0000
Re: Advanced Civ
ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson)
Thu, 16 Dec 1993 16:31:28 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Advanced Civ
rschuler@iastate.edu (Rodney Schuler)
Wed, 15 Dec 1993 21:38:26 +0000
Advanced Civ
ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson)
Wed, 15 Dec 1993 18:39:21 +0000
Re: Advanced Civ
ac829@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Hopkinson)
Thu, 16 Dec 1993 16:31:28 +0000