Re: Olympia combat

From: jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives)

Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 15:05:44 +0000

In article <18692@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes:

|> Province ownership/taxation/exploitation is on the todo list.
|> However, I want to be especially careful to avoid the T'Nyc syndrome,
|> wherein the owner of a province produced such outlandish income that
|> it was a problem to spend it all.

I can't imagine who you might be referring to :-)

It was a vicious rumor that Sojourner the Sorcerous would spends his mornings
in a high tower of Castle Black swimming in a pool of siver coins while his
countless score of courtiers and attendants looked on.

|>
|> In the Good Old Days, when Kosar the Indefectible [753], Prince of
|> Chardia (no, not the one in Olympia, the one in T'Nyc!) ruled
|> Runesward and most of the Chardian continent, I could make 100,000+
|> silver in a turn, while improving the economic state of the city of
|> Runesward.  That was from taxing 1 city!  (The base unit of money was
|> the silver, where here it is the gold coin.)  I literally had problems
|> spending it all.  I would form 50+ units in a turn, start them all
|> studying, recruiting, etc.

Good ol' Kosar! A true ally if there ever was one!!
(Ok, so i'm getting sentimental in my old age :-)

|>
|> I was unkillable.  Had I bothered to write an auto-order generator, my
|> game position could have taken on a life of its own, as I generated
|> units faster than my enemies could kill them.  There were a couple of
|> other people whose factions were of such size, and the only thing that
|> kept our positions in check was the sheer drudgery of creating new
|> units.

That and the drudgery of pouring over a mountain-sized listing of turn reports

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References

Re: Olympia combat
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Wed, 13 May 1992 15:57:24 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Fri, 15 May 1992 01:55:02 +0000