Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 04:04:11 +0000

(Greg Lindahl) writes:
>>None of that was ever implemented, and surprise, Olympia didn't collapse.
>>Turned out that people had to start spending some of their Skrenta-given
>>lucre protecting themselves, was all.
>
>Yeah, except the players that don't run turns still have that nice
>7,000 gold for anyone to pick up. So what if I'm a role-playing
>character and I don't kill innocent people? Oh well, I guess I'm
>screwed, because my fellow man has this great, random chance to become
>twice as wealthy as I am off the top. Doesn't make much sense to me,
>although you probably like it.

Actually, I don't.  Turns out I've only killed 2 people like that.  On
the other hand, guys like Varian are getting quite rich "protecting"
the innocent.  (Funny how when I kill guys that can defend themselves,
everyone gets in an uproar, but when Varian and the muggers in
Pesbrand go around jumping the innocent, no one thinks anything about
it.  Varian doesn't even make your "interesting player list" - but
he's killed/captured more players than anyone than I.)

Anyway, I don't know why Rich simply turns off players when they drop
out of the game.  Probably it's just the easiest thing to do.  But I've
been lobbying him to drop "independent" completely.  I think it's a silly
artifact that people are taking advantage of.  I can understand how with
good Observation you might determine the faction of a unit.  But how do
you look at someone and know there's no player behind him?  Seems silly.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 23:43:39 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Sat, 20 Jun 1992 21:31:41 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 02:37:47 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 23:43:39 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Sat, 20 Jun 1992 21:31:41 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 02:37:47 +0000