RE:PBM and Rules or something like that From: S_DANTZER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Stefan Dantzer) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 21:59:57 +0000 In the discussion of hiding the rules my opinion is : If the rules are hidden, all must be hidden. Not only the mathematical comptutaions or the Statics of the Charakters must be hidden, the Fighting Value of Soldiers must be invisible too, only represented trough roughly explaining expressions like good, elite or so. Otherwise there are always players which analyse everthing to the point. In Legends it's half done ! Some Value are hidden others not. So after playing quiet a bit (half a year) you can estimate the main Formulas behind the program. This means you get a big, no very big advantage over beginners cause these Formulas aren't given in the rulebooks. So if Not totaly hidden the Formulas have too be given to all players. If anyone is interessted he should have the possiblity to compute and plan everything from Begin on. Some very big disadvantage of Legends is on my view the bad game ballance. Some Positions are nearly invincible others totaly fooly. I had had the hope that the new Modul NIC has been better from this point of view. That's not the case. In KuH-1 one Position had conquered in the first month over 7000 Man by Summoning a Minor Divinity. Some Thief i know are raiding lairs and get interessting Magic Items but three Heros with maximum Fighting Value (50) can't conquer the next lair, cause the Monsters are too tough. Where's the reason in something like that ? To get money out of your pocket ??? The Monsters so tough that a Hero can't kill them alone OK ! But to tough that three players can't do anything on three not overlapping starting sheets ? That's not funny. I'm still playing yet. But thats only because a friend of mine had done a trick and conquered something with a dead sidekick. So , in overdoing the program i can see a slight progress. Perhaps with some Items the Game is better "winnable". In ROI there were a similar problem. As a new player you don't know anything about the Netherworld tree and the soldier the first status can infect, so in my first game we were totaly surprised by a big Army of these. In the next game we surprise the poor Beginners ! This is just a way to make the Companys big and fat , paying endless ... OK Legends truely is the best i know, but there are truely a lot of silly program tricks which not everyone knows and which destroy the balance. (In one ROI two friends of me get 80 Drakken per month with a base of 150 !!!) Thats not all i can say but for now it's enough ... Ciao STEFAN Up