Re: [glob2-devel] Glob2s lack of recovery strategy (with a proposal)

[Leo Wandersleb]

for a proposal, please scroll down to the last paragraph.

why are you exagurating like that? single misstakes can be 
to build an inn one square off the optimum. that is forgiven 
as everybody does misstakes like that. but it can also be to 
not switch on inn vision. even that is forgiven as long as 
your happiness does not fall significantly less than your 
opponents. just switch it on when you start loosing units. 
but if you forget to build inns, hospitals or schools at 
all, you are to loose if your opponent is normally as strong 
as you.
what we need here is some newbie-mode where every lack of 
food, health, education (maybe opponents advance in 
happiness) gets reported early in combination with the hint 
to the strategy that makes these announcements disappear so 
you can't just forget about it.

<=== proposal ===>
a way to make fruits less powerfull should be kind of 
natural. i'm strongly opposed to take fruits into account 
only till the looser has half the pop as the winner or the 
like. what i could think of is a formula that makes the 
globs not only prefere inns that have fruits but also inns 
that are not too crowded. so if your inns are all only half 
full they are as attractive as inns with one fruit. 1/4 
filled => 2 fruits, nobody in => 3 fruits. that would 
represent lets say your patriots, the space loving globs, 
what so ever.

i'll post that one on the forum, too. greetings,

leo

Bradley Arsenault wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Nuage <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > my point about strategy is that once you made the bad choice, then you'r meant
> > do loose. Still, your point is valid as the information collecting management is
> > expensive. The explorers speed has been increased by 40%, from 20 to 28.
> >
> > Nuage
> >
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> Thats a very cruel understanding of a game, making it if you make a
> mistake then you lose will make the game very unpopular, i especially
> hate such games. Recovery from a mistake is crucial to making a game
> fun, not just making it challenging. The final goal is to make the
> game fun, remember, and having it so that you lose just after a single
> mistake, every time, is not fun.
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