Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Eric McDonald wrote:

> I looked it up in the manual, and it turns out there's an
> advance-consumption-per-rp table which (assuming it's implemented) does
> more or less what I thought would be necessary.  To force the side to
> choose ground or space battles, you have an advance for each which
> requires a point of "research commitment", and you only get one point of
> that, so you have to choose one or the other.  To force choosing one or
> the other first, but eventually allow them both, make it require 100
> points of research commitment, give the side 100 points, but then make it
> hard to produce additional points... so they can eventually make another
> 100 and take the other path, but it'll take a while.

This is an interesting thought. Among other things, it shows me that you 
  are fit to be considered a "seasoned" Xconq game designer, because of 
demonstrated aptitude at twisting existing features to mimic 
non-existent features. :-)

> The "advances speed up other advances" thing could also be done easily
> with materials.... having "Formal Logic" increases your production of
> "journal papers", which are needed for other advances.

Depends on which journal, and who the author(s) and referee were. For 
some, I think formal logic serves as a detriment....

Eric