Atlantis rules discussion From: sma@informatik.uni-kiel.de (Stefan Matthias Aust) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 14:05:51 +0000 Hello, world. Because Russell Wallace has recently put the sources of Atlantis 1.0 in the public domain, I would like to start a small discussion about rule variants. I ported the sources to my Linux pc last weekend (quite easy) and immediately planed to make some changes. so far I've made the following changes: * Ships can now sail more than one region per turn. (currently two, but it's table-driven). * New regions: hills and city. Cities are no-combat zones. They support up to 100000 peasants, have currently no resources and working only gives $10. There are 2 city per continent. * Hills produce coals, which you need to build weapons and armors. They support 50000 peasants, $12 for work and 200 coals per turn. Coals weights 1. * Resources will be randomly spread over the continent, they do not clutter together anymore. * Changes, to add easily more raw materials, products and regions. All functions will use mostly lookup-tables. * The regions money will not grow beyond num of peasants x $20. I plan to change further: * Introduce flying ships. They will move up to 4 regions and will need coals to move. You will need level 3 shipbuilders, iron and wood to build them. * If you can't already enter and capture ships (I don't know), then this should be possible. * New combat system. I dislike the "win or die" system. * Combat skill like Atlantis 2. I don't know, if I ever would be able to start an atlantis variant, but I like to make some changes just for my own. I would like to discuss some more changes. I'm even not sure, wether my changes are good. I think, Atlantis is (theoretically) a great game, but the combat aspect is too overwhelming. (The coals should change this, it's now much more difficult to produce swords) Atlantis 2 has a lot of great ideas, but I don't like the character classes and don't need the hex-fields. Awaiting your comment, bye. -- Stefan Matthias Aust // to receive my full .signature, send in a SASE to // Stefan M. Aust, Wippen 26, 24107 Kiel, Germany Referenced By Up