From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15900 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2004 16:48:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15892 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 16:48:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO s-hertogenbosch.execulink.net) (199.166.6.44) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Sep 2004 16:48:37 -0000 Received: from diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (ppp159.ac2.56k.execulink.com [209.213.229.159]) by s-hertogenbosch.execulink.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i85Gm3N12123; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:48:06 -0400 Received: from localhost (mskala@localhost) by diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i85GhxP29519; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:44:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:50:00 -0000 From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca To: Eric McDonald cc: Elijah Meeks , Xconq list Subject: Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance In-Reply-To: <413B3619.7090605@phy.cmich.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01109.txt.bz2 On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Eric McDonald wrote: > The ability to make researching advances easier is also interesting, > because, for example, in a Civ-like game, after researching "Formal > Logic" and "Empirical Science", a civilization might be able to make a > whole slew of scientific and technological advances much more rapidly > than it would otherwise. 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. 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. -- Matthew Skala mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Embrace and defend. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/