Re: Age of Exploration

From: bobbyhowelljr@aol.com (Bob Howell)

Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

>Sure, I'd be happy to look through the rules but I'm more interested in
>providing some non-flame threads on this newsgroup ;-)    (And, I learn more
>by
>asking questions than reading rules - my mind bounces around while rules are
>generally linear constructs).
>
>So how extensive is the list of actions?  I would imagine that the
>motivations
>for most actions are pretty clear (warfare, economics, research) but why
>would
>someone produce a work of art?  Economics, prestige, role-playing?
>

There are probably a couple of hundred different actions available, I only use
probably 30 or 40. The motivations are clear with all orders. The reason
someone would produce a work of art is as follows:

One of the attributes of your characters is popularity. Popularity is useful in
that it allows you to perform certain actions, such as "raise a feudal levy"
from a town that you are listed as feudal lord over. It also costs popularity
to appoint people to certain positions in the game, such as a King appointing
his Marshal. Also, popularity determines your movement allowance. The artist
produces the work of art and names a sponsor. That sponsor receives ten percent
of the artist's skill in popularity points. The artist's reason for producing a
work of art for someone else could be almost anything. He could be given trade
rights to a certain town that produces a product in high demand somewhere else,
He could be maneuvering for an appointment to some lofty office. It could be
almost anything as I said before. This game is very detailed and the focus is
not on combat but on economics and diplomatic interaction.  Right now the
diplomacy is really only focused in Germany, Italy, and France. There are only
40+ players in the game right now, so lots of open space out there.

Bob

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Re: Age of Exploration
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Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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