Re: active players

Basil A. Daoust (daoust@ibm.net)
Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:40:59 -0600

Transfering NP devices should just send the NPC not cost a NP IMHO.
The fact it does, if we consider it a feature is IMHO a terrible
feature. It is to easy to abuse it especially when we know that
factions have players dropping. And the ones that don't won't need the
extra np's.

Basil

Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> > You are actually wrong here. There is a way of transferring NP's.
> > But I'm not telling because unscrupulous factions might actually
> > use it.
>
> If you're referring to the fact that giving a control artifact to
> another faction transfers a NP, then that's a feature, not a bug. If
> there is any other way of transferring NPs, I don't know what it is,
> but if I did, I'd make sure it was fixed, since NP conservation is the
> most important system of the game, and it's the main reason that we're
> still happily killing each other on turn 95 instead of having a
> runaway winner.
>
> -- greg (Oleg is not interested in game design...)

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