Re: Olympia combat

From: cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)

Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 21:33:02 +0000

Greg Lindahl writes
> The proposal I made works like this:
>
> Cities have city guards. Combat is illegal. So if you
> initiate combat in a city, the defender will get a free
> city guard unit stacked with them of size proportional
> with the attacker's force (i.e. the bigger you are, the
> more ruckus you raise, the more guards can get there.)
>
> Tain't nothing unrealistic about this, but it is a big
> change from the way the game is now.

No, this isn't really a very good idea. If it was implemented, the game
would impose a morality on the players and destroy one of the most
attractive aspects of Olympia - the opportunity to create your own
standards and to enforce them as much as your resources allow. Once the
game (in contrast to another player) starts telling me that I better
"be good, or else..... !" I would probably drop out of it.

Now a slightly more palatable implementation of this idea would be to
have each city start out with a city guard unit of some 40 or 50 armed
men with a little training in combat. This unit would be like any other
independent unit (i.e. could be persuaded, terrorized, attacked aso.)
except that it would automatically permanently change its status to
"enemy" (i.e. automatic attack on sight) against any unit which it sees
attacking any other unit. This might not prevent crimes, but certainly
would avenge them. On the other hand this wouldn't prevent players from
taking over cities and imposing their own laws if they are powerful or
lucky enough as Rocko or Dr Pain have done in their time.

Carl Edman, (aka BtA)

References

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 13 May 1992 20:27:36 +0000

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Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Wed, 13 May 1992 20:27:36 +0000