Olympia & work

From: jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)

Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 00:59:13 +0000

Hello everyone me again. I just thought I might put my $.02 in on work.
Work should pay maintenence in two weeks the reason for this is simple.
In the new plans of things a unit to support itself must work 25 days a month
if it has no skills. This leaves 3 days a month to make new gold, or to gain
new skills. Hardly a platform for growth within the game. I think new men
should be more expensive based on faction size, and free if your faction leader
does the recruiting. However your faction leader must recruit into a separate
faction, and he still must spend 6 days per person recruited. Basically a way
to resurect yourself should you get really out of cash/people, but not a way
to gain exponential growth. If for example it cost 50 gold + 1 per man in your
faction there would be a logical limit on your faction size, but beginers would
have an easier time of it. The game type explanation of why it takes more money
is that in a large force the leader is more separated from the troops, and it
costs more money, and less talking to get them to join.
The leader along those lines in 6 days can convince someone to follow him with
no bonus cash, which makes sense. ie I will pay you xx a week.