Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)

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

Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 18:52:46 +0000

(Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Thanks for the insult, Scott. I've thought very hard about open-ended
>PBM design since I started playing them 10 years ago. If something I
>say is totally bizarre, odds are we aren't communicating, not that I'm
>not thinking. I give you the benefit of the doubt, so please give it
>to me.

Sorry.  I didn't mean to be insulting.  I happened to follow up your
posting, but I was really replying to the whole thread, which I think
has featured very shallow thinking.

>What *I* mean by the phrase is "the richer you are, the easier it is
>to earn money."

Well, of course.  My point is that the world works that way, and so
will Olympia, unless you twist things so badly that it becomes
unplayable and unrealistic.  I don't think you or anyone else really
wants this.

You've got a ship; that gives you a big advantage over any new player
in the game.  Are you going to give up that ship to be more "fair"
to the new players?  Are you going to give every new player a ship?
Tell me how, in this particular case of you owning a ship, you would
"fix" the game so that it was more fair to a new player.

>New players start poor. This situation means that new players will
>never be able to become rich.

That does not follow.  *I* started poor; now I'm rich.  You started
poor, now you own a ship.  So where's the problem?  Sure, it's hard
task for a new player to catch up with an old player - in anything,
not just money.  But I've yet to be convinced that that's a bad thing.

References

Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Tue, 19 May 1992 04:35:20 +0000
Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 19 May 1992 13:55:54 +0000
Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 19 May 1992 01:08:16 +0000

Referenced By

Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Tue, 19 May 1992 04:35:20 +0000
Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 19 May 1992 13:55:54 +0000
Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 19 May 1992 01:08:16 +0000