Re: more on trade

Greg Lindahl (lindahl@pbm.com)
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 22:52:43 -0500 (EST)

> I didn't play g1, but I midly aware of the problem. If I were to be playing
> I would prolly have opposed it to. Rich, in my opinion made the right choice in
> making g2 instead of changing g1.

Which proves my point quite well -- even if Rich reserves the right to
change a game to preserve balance, some players will whine too much
for him to do it. Oh well.

Now why did we have to exchange so many pieces of mail to make my
original point?

> I've seen a lot of good games being spoiled by
> gm intervention. I used to play BSE (a science fiction game)

Given that BSE had a lot of GM discression, it doesn't make a good
comparison to any computer-moderated game. However, it was also
screwed up in many fundamental ways, and players complained all the time
because they wanted the game to stay screwed up.

-- g
(once the GTT THC in the USA BSE game... dropped out in... er, 1984.)

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