Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 17:30:19 +0000

In article <1992Jun22.163057.19337@aero.org> srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:
>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.

Seems to me by someone mail bombing my mailbox with tons of messages newbies
now have `funny gold' which means that by killing a newbie you can only gain
his income, and not his orriginal 7000 gold. My reason for thinking being
a warlord is easy is that I have killed a few independents, and it was mighty
profitable. I have also noticed that most of the units in town are poorly
defended. I suppose this is more due to stupidity then anything. Independents
are a good idea, but they should always spend their gold by recruiting
training and the like. This would make them less of a target, and more likely
to actually perform a usefull ticket in the game through some AI. Turning a
common techique of theirs to trading etc etc. so that they perform a usefull
purpose. The independants should also be able to split if they start becoming
low in population. Among other things I find them interesting for
experimenting on. I can do what I like to an NPC, and I haven't screwed up
anyones game, and I am not going to make any enemies. I actually think half
the guys in town would be better cash cows then the independent I just killed
but I am not going to be able to find out :-)

To all you newbies or poorly defended people out there. If nothing else at
least spend all your gold through recruiting, and buying weapons. Realize
that gold automatically transfers between your stacked units, and keep your
gold surplus under 500 gold each month. This will insure that even if you
get wiped out you will take some of the person down, and he/she will gain
little from it.

Oh yeah, and the person who founded the idea of co-operative defensive
units in town. Nice idea good luck with it :-)

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
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Mon, 22 Jun 1992 16:30:57 +0000