Re: Olympia: economics and borders

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 22:53:58 +0000

In article <1992Jul9.205018.29612@tridom.com> lam@eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris) writes:

>POINT 1: If skill-based economic opportunities are limited, they should at
>least be more profitable than basic work.

My experience is that they are. If you have way too many people trying to
entertain and it's not profitable, that's your problem, not Rich's.

>With a small entertainment unit being able to "play out" a town in a week,
>my Jaybards could descend on a poor unsuspecting town with resident
>entertainers, do a "juggling blitz", steal the NEA money, and leave within
>the month.

Chase them down and kill them. If you're willing to use force to
"defend your border", you ought to be able to manage this ;-)
Seriously, while this is somewhat difficult in the current system, you
ought to be able to keep up a pretty good monopoly even with the
current system.

>Even worse, natch, is the fact that key strategic regions (i.e. Summerbridge)
>can't be controlled to "enemy" traffic passing through.

But it can. If you know the numbers of the enemy units, you can attack
them as they pass through, with the current system. You just have to
think a bit.

References

Olympia: economics and borders
lam@eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 20:50:18 +0000

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Olympia: economics and borders
lam@eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 20:50:18 +0000