Re: open ended games

From: grenadeboy@yahoo.com

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I probably should have given a
little more detail in my original post, so here it is:

Some of the ideas I received via email mentioned things I could do to
protect the main character. However, the game I'm designing isn't
another Atlantis... the main focus is on the kingdom, rather than the
character. The game is open-ended, but victory is possible if one sect
controls all five of the Holy Cities, as well as at least 50% of all
player-controlled cities.

The more members a sect has, the more spells the priests of that sect
can cast. Therefore, the more members a sect has, the more powerful it
is.

I've thought about reserving large parts of the world for new players,
but the problem with that is, I'm basically abdicating the rest of the
world to the old players. As a result, player A, who isn't a very good
player, could end up controlling vast amounts of territory simply
because his neighbors all dropped out of the game.

Another idea I've considered is giving new players XX 'free' militia.
Militia units have a movement of 0. Just an hour ago I had an idea that
would make it very unprofitable to control a city formerly owned by
another player, but that's such an artifical rule I'm not sure I want
to pursue that line of thinking.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. Carol, thanks for the pointer on
the article, I'll check it out.

grenadeboy@yahoo.com

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