Re: [s-d] Re: Card and Arena Play

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 11, 2005, at 10.38 PM, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:

> Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 	I didn't realize the Gardens were so much work to deal with,
> > but if you tell me what takes the most work, I could probably rig some
> > simple scripts to help out.
>
> I meant that they were work to maintain as a player, needing to water
> the gardens every checkpoint. (I bet that Personman wasn't trying to
> lose eir expensive Lemon tree, for instance.) As a minister, it's
> pretty easy to maintain... The toughest part is just needing to go
> through the entire list every Checkpoint and beginning-of-nweek and
> remember what happens with each item, but that's not that bad
> (although it might be worth the 20 points per nweek, whereas the Meta
> ministry certainly isn't). Sorry for the miscommunication, but
> rereading my earlier message I can see where it came from.

Reducing costs to once an nweek would make this easier, at least.

> > Also, we might triple the Watering costs but make them nweekly
> > instead of Checkpointly; I know I spoke out against doing that
> > earlier, but that was back when "remember to water the plants" was
> > basically the entirety of the gardening subgame.
>
> Well, right now the watering costs are so low in comparison to how
> much tildex everyone has, that it really doesn't matter much.
> Everybody's rich enough to own and maintain a garden, so keeping track
> of the little bit of tildex all the time just seems like a pain. Maybe
> we should get rid of the costs entirely, and just have a stricter
> limit on number of plants in a Garden? (Although then, we ought to
> have *something* dealing with tildex.)

A limit of 5 would work well; it would also encourage more cooperation 
between players, since nobody would have a garden large enough to 
produce all the different fruits at the same time (especially if 
players want to use Waterspouts to keep their gardens free).

> The other problem with the Gardens is that Wonko's sitting there with
> a fleet of Bunnies ready to jump in and steal or destroy anything of
> particular value, so I kinda don't want to invest too much in it. (And
> at the very least, I don't want to get on Wonko's bad side. :)

Heh.

Well, I have offered to sell them to anyone who wants bunnies. At a 
discount price, too.

If you really don't like them, though, then give me a reason to get rid 
of them. If I could sacrifice 10 bunnies in order to gain Spell power 
from some dark god, then maybe the bunny problem would go away on its 
own ;)

--
Wonko

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open 
sewer and die.
     -Mel Brooks (1926 - )

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