Re: Olympia combat

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

Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 02:29:32 +0000

In article <1992May18.014531.23162@aero.org> srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:

>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.

But would you object if Olympia had something in it where notices of
people being killed were propagated at the speed of horseback riding?
But that's essentially the same thing as the current system, because
the minute anyone learned that, for example, Dr. Pain was killing
people again, they'd send a notice to everyone else -- using email.

Face it, the fact that players have email and that there are more
people in the game than just the players mean that information about
combat is going to propagate damn quickly. You can muse on whether or
not it's unfair to your style of play that people learn the second
they get their turn results back instead of 30 minutes later when
email arrives, but it seems a bit moot to me.

> 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.

Neah, you have plenty of time after killing someone to leave the area
before the end of the turn.

However, it's equally unfair for someone with you in West Habyn to
send email to a wizard in Drassa, who then teleports in and casts a
spell on you. In fact that's more unfair because that gives away your
end of turn location. Fortunately combat spells are few and far
between.

-- Oleg the Loudmouth: ask me about the bounty on my head!

References

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
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Mon, 18 May 1992 01:45:31 +0000

Referenced By

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
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Mon, 18 May 1992 01:45:31 +0000