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From: smile@homxc.UUCP (E.BARLOW)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Abusing the rules in Conquer
Message-ID: <1952@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 13:17:54 GMT
References: <379@nancy.UUCP> <11274@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 33
Summary: response

In article <11274@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, cc1@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
> Unfortunately, thats nothing. There's a much bigger bug in conquest, and I 
> stopped playng becuse of it.
> 
>	[ text deleted ]
>
> The big problem with this is that population increase is adjusted by number of
> people in a spot--there's no NEED to expand in this game.
> 			Michael
Why should everybody need to expand?  I made different victory conditions
to alleviate the need for everybody doing the same thing!  You should want
to expand a little for security/the fun of it (your dwarf wizard probably
wasn't much fun -  and that is why you are playing - right).  How should this 
"problem" be fixed.  The big
rational behind expansion is because most players scores are dependent
on gaining land...  Your dwarf wizard is not and gets points as follows:

                     Per    1000    1000      100K 100K   100K   Magic  10
             Races   Sector People  Soldiers  Gold Jewels Iron   Power Ship
"wizard"     EH      0        2        1       0    3      5      20    0

Thus you are pursuing the correct strategy for your nation...  The only 
solution that I can come up with is to make production ability fall off
with increasing usage (% chance of reducing the iron/jewel value of a sector
by one based on amounts mined - % chance per sector per turn of "finding"
new raw materials and adding to production ability), and make reproduction 
fall off if too many people are in a sector (1/2 rate if over 50K 
people/sector)...   Maybe I will do this in the next release... Hmmm...

But honestly... a wizard type should not necessarily want to expand **too**
much... leave that to the colonist types...

The Ed