Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'

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

Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 02:00:27 +0000

In article <2A36A506.23765@noiro.acs.uci.edu> cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

> No, the solution to keeping something secret is to
>prevent it ever from getting into Olegs maps. (Not that I don't admire
>Olegs skill at getting all that information. I just think that all the
>people who supply him with information might try to be a little bit
>more parsimonious. Remember - information is power and should be hard
>to come by).

That's true -- but information loses its value if it's known by only 2
or 3 unrelated people. My map is just a combination of stuff sent to
me FOR FREE by various people, because they knew the information was
known by enough people to be worthless. It wasn't skill, I just asked.

On the other hand, information I have collected myself and others have
not seen I keep to myself. I even sold some of it for gold. But if I
hear someone else not affiliated with me and my friends acquired the
information, I'll publish it on my map to destroy the value of it.

After all, if I thought my map were valuable, I wouldn't have sent you
a copy. ;-)

Anyway, I would like to see the EXPLORE order tell you about new
places. I think that this would add to the game and that this kind of
information would probably not end up in my map. It would certainly
make exploration more interesting... and it would be a shame if the
only thing to do in Olympia was be an economic/military powerhouse.

References

Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Thu, 11 Jun 1992 00:57:42 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Wed, 10 Jun 1992 21:44:49 +0000