Re: Olympia - Getting Too Complex?

From: mckinney@cs.utexas.edu (Durwood Y. McKinney)

Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 00:36:45 +0000

I don't think the game is too complex.  The complexity is what makes
the game interesting for me.  I like the fact that I don't know everything
about the game.  Most of the new commands,(ex: cancel options) are things
that I don't have to worry about until I find a need for them.

Now granted, if you are going to play this thing like it's Galaxy in
Fantasyland and try to minimax your strategy and dominate the Land,
all this complexity makes it difficult to forge the Perfect Plan, but
for those of us that want a world to explore it's great!

Oh, and I'm glad to hear that we've only explored 1/3 of the world!
Now I don't feel like I'm so far behind for having just started.

Oh, here's some extra complexity I would like.  Right now I know of
no way (I'm inexperienced so there may be one) of finding out which
player owns a unit.  I think it would be neat if there was a Torture
command which you could use to get this info out of captured units,

It would take a long time to use so the person who owned the unit
would have a chance to rescue it before the identity was revealed.
Extremely Loyal units might kill themselves to prevent this from
happening when faced with torture.

Ken McKinney (Jareel the Razoress)
mckinney@cs.utexas.edu
.

References

Olympia - Getting Too Complex?
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Mon, 11 May 1992 19:35:33 +0000
Re: Olympia - Getting Too Complex?
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 11 May 1992 21:58:26 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia - Getting Too Complex?
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Mon, 11 May 1992 19:35:33 +0000
Re: Olympia - Getting Too Complex?
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 11 May 1992 21:58:26 +0000