Sitting on the fence

Ironhawk · #1 June 18th, 2007, 05:10 PM

An interesting twist on your idea gandalf: Make the players pay for the information

So, hide the graphs and generate the numbers. And if players want the exact numbers for that turn, they have to pay some gold amount to the GM. Its sort of like the price you would have to pay to support a network of spies to collect said information.

Morkilus · #2 June 18th, 2007, 05:57 PM

I was thinking of using that idea in the mega-age game - spend much of your money on scouts and sell the info to other nations. You gotta earn your money somehow if you're not a "rush" nation.

Gandalf Parker · #3 June 18th, 2007, 07:18 PM

Im surprised that in an older game such as mega game that someone doesnt rush for Eyes of God and then sell screenshots.

Or barter with other nations so that they all contribute gems to the casting of Eyes of God to make it strong enough to last, in return for regular updates on its view. Maybe based on how many gems they donate to the cause

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 June 18th, 2007, 08:02 PM

Has someone pulled off that civil war mod thing? It would be an interesting, though slow, way of developing a strategy guide.

Gandalf Parker · #5 June 18th, 2007, 08:25 PM

At least it would give us all an idea of who might be best to write the strategy guides. Note the word "guides". I do not think that anyone is likely to be the best choice for the guides of all nations in all game types

Lazy_Perfectionist · #6 June 19th, 2007, 01:33 AM

Good lord, no. First, the scope of a full guide is horrifying to even imagine. You ever own that Master of Magic strategy guide? You know, the one that actually was released after the game was, vs. 1.31, so it didn't have that false crap. You know, the one bigger than some textbooks. I fear Dom3 would turn out worse, but I just might be imagining it.

Ignoring who's best to write the guides, it might give us an idea (especially if we had a record/replay feature like RTS) who has the best idea on how to design and use a pretender.

Personally, I just want an excuse, any excuse, to get involved in as many MP games as I can.

llamabeast · #7 June 19th, 2007, 07:18 AM

Isn't Eyes of God unavoidably dispelled by Fate of Oedipus, no matter how many gems were put in?

I like the idea of paying the GM for better quality data. If only there were a way to automate it... but I don't think it's possible, since the program would somehow have to know how much gold was paid to the GM, and it can't do that without opening the game and reading the messages (which would be very smart indeed).