Re: Storm of the Eye

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)

Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Ghworg enlightened us with his wisdom:

>I was part of the playtest, the problem was that the empires got too
big to manage and it took days to complete a turn.  This caused a lot
of drop-outs and made the situation worse, finally there were not
enough players to continue.  Some players did take over empires in the
first proper game which was designed to be much smaller but I chose not
to for lack of time, I don't know if that game is still going.

Planning for growth is a common game design issue.  A game should allow the
players to progress (skills, economics, money, whatever) but playing the game
shouldn't turn into a full-time job.

Common solutions are to automate the accounting details (consumption,
production, maintenance, training, trades) so the player can focus on the "fun"
stuff.  And, provide incentives for players to do/buy the same number of things
but more powerful/elaborate things.

What happened in Storm of the Eye that made it so unwieldy?

John

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Re: Storm of the Eye
"Ghworg" <ghworg@kinsey.u-net.com>
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Storm of the Eye
"Ghworg" <ghworg@kinsey.u-net.com>
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000