Re: Olympia: region resources

From: skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 17:27:56 +0000

Edwin Huang <eh1s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Personally,  I like the simplistic way things are now.
...
> but it seems a bit unbalacing to newbies and gives
> major advantages to older characters.

On the contrary.  The older players are experiencing exponential
growth, since there are no limits to their income.  I believe that
proportionally, competition for resources will hurt the larger players
more than the smaller ones.

> From Rick Socia's post it seems that profitability from a newbies eyes
> seem to be to either follow Dr. Pain's  or Varian's example or to have
> their units simply work.

Work will be subject to competition as well.  No more guaranteed income.

If units have to compete for region resources, there will be a
reason to control regions.  Perhaps you will have to buy a mining
permit from the local king (like Rocko's entertainment licenses).
It will also make the game more interesting.  Right now, if someone else
comes into the region and mines stone along side you, you don't care:
your production isn't affected.  But if you have to compete for stone in
the same quarry, you have an interest in preventing competition.

> This resource limitation is also encouraging a warlord
> style of play.

To a point, yet.  But it's non trivial to really control a region.
The world is big, too.  Everyone complains when I turn off the
guaranteed income, but it should be challenging to make money.
Otherwise things get boring.

My approach is always to increase the peaks, too.  Right now you
can earn X gold at some task just sitting in the same place issuing
the same order, turn after turn.  I would like to increase the potential
for the task, while forcing the unit to do some work to secure the income.
So a lazy unit might only earn 1/4 X, or zero, but a clever unit can now
earn 2X in a turn.

--
Rich Skrenta

References

Re: Olympia: region resources
eh1s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edwin Huang)
Thu, 25 Jun 1992 19:51:23 +0000

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Re: Olympia: region resources
eh1s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edwin Huang)
Thu, 25 Jun 1992 19:51:23 +0000