Re: long-term fun

From: skrenta@pbm.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000

lindahl@pbmcom (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> This is not to claim that Olympia has all of the ideas that it needs,
> or that the expression of these ideas in Olympia is correct -- I think
> it adds noble points too quickly -- but the "infinite number of units"
> and exponential growth problems are certainly solved.

It only took me three revs to get that right.

"Enno Rehling" <rehling@usa.net> writes:
> But at one point, the player will have either too many units to
> handle, or he'll become unbeatable, or reach some other point where
> contiuing to play doesn't make much sense.

It's important to keep in mind what number of details a player is
comfortable tracking, and not require a player to exceed this in
order to advance.  Players in earlier Olympias would feel obliged
to push for as many units as they could obtain, to increase their
power.  But the difficulty of writing turns for ever-increasing
numbers of units increased, and became more tedious than fun.

Find way to increase a player's power without inceating the number
of POVs they have to control.

References

Re: long-term fun
lindahl@pbmcom (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000