Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Orcish Alcohol Tolerance

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:02  PM, Christopher Bartlett wrote:

> > Oh no you don't... Leave them alone. They're all that remains. With 
> > all these proposed things to add to the Grid, why should everything 
> > be lost when a win happens? Rule 21 states that the Game should 
> > continue as normally as possible. Points can go because they're just 
> > markers towards a win, but the other things do so much more. Or will, 
> > when I'm done with them.-
> Actually, as full a reset as can be contrived would be attractive to 
> me since it creates a greater incentive to prevent anyone from 
> winning.  The incentive to win can be increased by allowing the 
> winning player to come through a reset with some of eir resources 
> intact.

Yes, but consider something like my recent mass-mining. After all that 
work, to simply lose all my RUs just because somebody forgot to fix 
Tequila when we added Charm Wins would just, well, suck.

Then also, that takes away all incentive to spend points on things. It 
costs a fair amount of resources to purchase and equip a speeder; if 
you're just going to lose it in a few nweeks anyway, why bother? Better 
to hoard said resources and be the one causing the reset.

This suggests also that long term progress will be impossible - how can 
we create a diverse, complicated world when everything is destroyed 
every few nweeks? I envision a grid covered with interesting things - 
buildings, mines, factories, guns, trenches, villages, cities - 
inhabited by players, NPCs, speeders, speeder variants,  hundreds of 
possible objects (hopefully all stored in a nifty little properties 
database, so that we can track all of them without lots of messiness), 
and diverse abilities for everyone and anything.

That will never happen if every village and speeder is obliterated on 
an nmonthly basis.

--
Wonko

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