Re: [spoon-discuss] On Win Resets

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:51  PM, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

> > From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Pay more with what?  Would everyone start out with a pool of 
> > something that they could use to bid for a few big things or a slew 
> > of little things?  And would it be sealed bids, or rounds of sealed 
> > bids, or are we talking N-Bay here?
>
> Regarding resources, I said at some point before giving everything a 
> BNS value that might be purchased after a win, and allow purchase with 
> a set amount of BNS that you have to spend at the beginning of the 
> game.  Or we could set up an equivalent currency, like Character 
> Creation Points or something.
>
> Regarding purchasing and bidding:
> I say a combination.  Some unique things that we want someone to have 
> at all times, but many would want, we could bid on.  How, exactly, I 
> would likely say sealed bids, with perhaps a public "set of bids" that 
> can be modifeid by anyone before the win happens; essentially, Wonko 
> could say "If there's ever a win, I automatically bid 1000 BNS for the 
> Ministry of the Force position."  And after a win, people would have a 
> few short ndays to bid secretly on the things up.
>
> Anything drawn out, like rounds of bids or N-Bay, would take too long, 
> and would put those who don't check their email that often at a 
> disadvantage.
>
> Most things, however, should be freely purchaseable, as long as you 
> have the BNS or whatever.  These things could include stuff like 
> location purchasing, aquirement of an unowned improvement, getting a 
> Boots of +1 Speed, etc.
>
> One thing we will have to do is make sure that there is no set of 
> things that could be bought at the start (with the amount of BNS you 
> get) that would result in a nearly instant win.
>
> Wandering a bit off topic, since ministerial positions and benefits 
> associated with societies was mentioned:  I think that singularly 
> empowering societies in the rules is a Bad Thing.  Things like Gnomes, 
> Airspeeders and their Upgrades, and even my Boomcages, having those 
> restricted to specific societies, I don't like.  But I think this has 
> already been discussed, and most players agree with me.  Just we never 
> got a good prop hammered out to fix it.

I like the idea of having different sorts of factories for various 
things, and needing RUs and whatnot to use them. Thus, a player could, 
if e really wanted to, build eir own Gnome Vat, Speeder Foundry, 
Upgrade WorkShop, etc., but it would also be possible for groups of 
players to band together and pool resources as a society to, say, build 
twenty Speeder Foundries, mass produce speeders, and sell them to the 
public.

I always liked it when interesting things like Speeder Markets appeared 
without the need for rules defining them.

--
Wonko

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