Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare

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

Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 21:54:15 +0000

(Carl Edman) writes:
>> Your doom scenario assumes that the only route to power is
>> via combat.
>
>No, what I said was that large number of baronets might ally and bring
>the game to a standstill (notice - no combat !). Making combat between
>baronets reasonably profitable (for the winner !) is one way to prevent
>permanent ossification.

I think you made a good point in an earlier post, Carl, about
different players having different goals.  "Ossification" of only one
facet of the game is probably not a huge problem.  If some baronets
have political control and use that to ossify control of the cities,
that's not going to matter much to someone whose trying to be an
Archmage.  Similarly, if some guy dominates trading, what do the
warlords care?  And so on.

I'm in the camp with the previous poster who thinks that Olympia (or
at least the Olympia-that-will-be) will be complex enough to prevent
any such long term ossification along any dimension.  And temporary
ossification or domination of some dimension is, I think, a good thing
for the game.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Fri, 22 May 1992 21:21:47 +0000
Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 22 May 1992 19:46:27 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Fri, 22 May 1992 21:21:47 +0000
Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 22 May 1992 19:46:27 +0000