Re: movement bug: leave it

Ken Scott (ken.scott@pobox.com)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:24:37 -0700

Keith Hearn:

I stated my opinion that I _prefer_ it be left as it has been for the last
61 turns. I state my opinion, you state your opinion.

>Everyone knows it's there? Four new players joined on turn 61, Do
> they all know? Not everyone in the game reads this mailing list.

If players don't take advantage of all the resources freely available;
reading the Times, reading the discussion list or the design list, then
it's their loss.

>> The problem should have been caught in the beta playtest, but wasn't.
>
>Pardon me, but your ignorance is showing. There was no beta or
> playtest for g2. The closest thing to that would have been g1, which
> didn't have the movement penalty for large stacks.

You're right. The link that says "Olympia II playtest:" on the Times page
was from before g1. My mistake.

>TAG is not the next step after g2. It was built from the g1 engine,
> and doesn't currently implement a *lot* of g2 rules, including this
> one.

That is precicly why I said g3 _OR_ TAG.

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