Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 16:30:57 +0000

(Carl Edman) writes:
>John J. Woolsey writes
>> Carl Edman writes:
>> >John J. Woolsey writes
>> >> To be honest a have very little against warriors. I just
>> >> don't think it should be the most profitable method of
>> >> making money in the game, which it really seems to be.
>> >
>> >Why, it is clearly the most dangerous one. Isn't it fair that it
>> >also should be the most profitable one ?
>> >
>> >	Carl Edman, BtA
>>
>> It is only dangerous for the stupid ones, and the people
>> who die. With a little forthought you could almost go on
>> forever without being at any serious risk to dieing, and
>> at this point all you really have to do is succeed for about
>> 3 to 4 months, which is relatively simple to do, and then
>> you suddenly become beyond most peoples combat
>> abilities.
>
>Tell that to Zyzak.

Exactly.

John knows nothing about trying to make a living by preying on other
players.  His opinions about whether it is easy, simple, or not
dangerous are completely uninformed.  If he'd simply look at how many
people have tried this tactic and how many have succeeded, he'd
realize that it is neither easy nor safe.  Player to player combat is
probably the best balanced aspect of Olympia, frankly.  Certainly the
skill/market system is much more abusable than combat at this point.

I agree that having independent players wandering around with 7000
gold in their pockets is unbalancing.  I'm all in favor of eliminating
that.  But that's an entirely different issue from playing a warrior
strategy against other, active players.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 14:35:50 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 15:57:44 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 14:35:50 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 15:57:44 +0000