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From: heeb@ethz.UUCP (Hansruedi Heeb)
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: Re: Civilization disasters
Message-ID: <240@ethz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 16:46:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: ethz.240
Posted: Mon Oct 14 16:46:03 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 01:44:31 EDT
References: <369@cstvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: heeb@ethz.UUCP (Hansruedi Heeb)
Organization: CS Department, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <369@cstvax.UUCP> db@cstvax.UUCP (Dave Berry) writes:
>
>...
>	However, after playing a few times with the new cards, it became
>obvious that there was now a flaw in the game.  Experience showed that
>anyone who fell behind on the AST would very rarely win the game as the
>disasters came too few & far between to cause all of those ahead of him/her
>to also fall back to his/her level.  In the original game the disasters
>appeared often enough to at least give someone a chance of catching up.
>	With this in mind a few new disaster cards have been designed to
>fit in with the expansion kit. 
>...

On the contrary! If all players play it 'tough' (meaning that they always
unite against the winning player) it is far too easy to stop a player.
This is done by giving him the side-effects of all catastrophies and by
evading him from all sides thus reducing him to no city at all in very
short a time (and this means falling *back* on the AST).

In this way it is usually the 3rd or 4th potential winner who really wins
and the last stage of the game is mostly diplomacy (trying to look
innocent as long as you can ...).

Since this spoils the game a bit I would rather have extra-rules which
make it harder to stop a player. Maybe restriction of the number of
disaster-side-effects that can be directed against a player is the
solution.

If anyone has an extra-rule in this direction let me know.

	Hansruedi Heeb
	seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!heeb