Re: Olympia: economics and borders

From: morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1992 22:06:22 +0000

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

>In article <1992Jul10.142924.6945@tridom.com> lam@tridom.uucp (Larry Morris) writes:

>>Therein lies the rub! If I think Varian's coming in to invade my territory
>>and take prisoners (oh, let's pick on Varian some more!), I could target
>>his unit ID for "opportunity fire." But he could easily send his force in
>>with a surrogate leader, and I'm blind and deaf. I can't even target his
>>faction! (OBapology, not that I'd want to...)

I would joke about comming to steal people's children but I am becomming
afraid people would take it seriously.  I mean I know my 54 men are the
fiercest in the land (my minstrels play a mean "I'm Henry the 8th") but
this is getting rediculous.  :-)

>Ever heard of "Military Intelligence"? I have a large list of id's for
>Varians' units, and I haven't even been trying. Again, this is
[...]
...probably because he gave them to you. :-)

>something you can work around with the current system. At the moment,
>the things I'd like Rich to work on most are the things that DO make
>the game unplayable, such as expoential, limitless growth. Of course,
>Rich has a mind of his own...

Seriously, though, Oleg has a point.  "Military Intelligence" (i.e.
know who is where and with how many men, etc.) goes a long way towards
stopping rampages.  If I know dangerous forces are on their way, several
turns before they arrive, I will have ample time to organize a response.

John Morrow (aka Varian the Bloodsucking Baby Killer [666])

ooops...

John Morrow (aka Varian [856]) :-)

References

Re: Olympia: economics and borders
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 22:53:58 +0000
Re: Olympia: economics and borders
lam@tridom.uucp (Larry Morris)
Fri, 10 Jul 1992 14:29:24 +0000
Re: Olympia: economics and borders
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 10 Jul 1992 15:49:21 +0000
Olympia: economics and borders
lam@eng.tridom.com (Larry Morris)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 20:50:18 +0000