Re: Olympia combat

From: eebonar@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu (DAVID BONAR)

Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 13:35:23 +0000

In article <1992May14.002450.18981@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck) writes...
>I think what everyone has to realize is that olympia is a complex world which
>allows everyone to do what they want, with some fear of losing thrown in for
>fun.  Morals are left for everyone to figure out.
>
>This does not mean that things shouldn't be changed - I think the current
>newbie experience isn't nearly as good as it could be, and needs to be tuned.
>With a large number of walking moneybags in one area, and an overpowering
>weapon sitting around for the first person to grab and dominate the newbie
>world (Chardia's guards), it drastically threw out the balance of the game.
>This I think needs to be changed, and I think the new TERRORIZE/PERSUADE
>rules, if they had been in place before, would have fixed much of this.

The present newbie experience is worse then that.  Everyone was dumped
in one, very limited area.  The only ways out of the Chardia, Caburh, Pesbrand
area are Summerbridge (unusable most of the time) and ships (unavailable to
most new players)  Even without the castle guards, the situation was set up
to promote the rise of petty warlords and promote battles.

Dave
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Dave Bonar
eebonar@lsuvax.sncc.lsu.edu
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References

Re: Olympia combat
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Wed, 13 May 1992 06:19:32 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
jwoolsey@cad1.gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)
Wed, 13 May 1992 22:30:44 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)
Thu, 14 May 1992 00:24:50 +0000