Re: Olympia combat

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

Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 01:45:31 +0000

(Greg Lindahl) writes:
>>That's my objection to the monthly obit reports, for instance.
>>They're an unnatural (in the sense that they don't have any
>>explanation in terms of the game universe) mechanism for alerting
>>everyone to who's being anti-social.
>
>They don't have any explanation in the *player* game universe. But
>you're assuming that players are everything. There are 460 people
>living in West Habyn; perhaps you should be happy that they don't
>remember your unit numbers and tell people about them after you leave.

But I wouldn't object if, for example, Olympia had something in it
that caused people to flee from a province into neighboring provinces
when bloodshed occurred, thus alerting players to problems next door.
Or if Olympia had "rumors" and some of them were caused by murders and
circulated at an appropriate speed.

But I do object to immediately publishing deaths at the bottom of
everyone's turn.  It just doesn't fit into the game universe.  Why
should some trader in Drassa know immediately when a prisoner dies
in W. Habyn?  (Just to pick an example out of the air... :-)  And
it's unfair to certain styles of play.  Using knowledge from the
obituaries, a wizard in Drassa can track Dr. Pain, teleport in and
zap him with a spell to punish him for a killing that realistically
the wizard should never have known about.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 21:10:21 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Fri, 15 May 1992 22:49:31 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 23:19:04 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 21:10:21 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Fri, 15 May 1992 22:49:31 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 23:19:04 +0000