RE: extra lists

Larry Stanbery (stanbery@northrock.bm)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:12:38 -0300

Actually, that's an excellent comment -- consider the perspectives of various
real-world governments: they all beat their chests and say "We're the best!".
However, with the advent of nearly instantaneous communications, this is
subject to more public review (at least, in countries where the media is
[theoretically] not controlled by government). If a person wishes to "bluff"
and say, "Hey, I control 300,000 troops, and I'm gonna beat down your door",
when she only has a tenth of that, it's a bit blown by the fact that the
person she's talking to is #1 on the troops list, and only has half that
number. Bluffing gets trounced a bit here, unfortuntely, with some of those
lists -- though ones like "provinces explored" actually have little to no
effect.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-g2-list@rt.com [mailto:owner-g2-list@rt.com]On Behalf Of
> Hugh O'Neil
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:19 AM
> To: Mordekai; g2-list@pbm.com
> Subject: Re: extra lists
>
>
>
> I have to disagree with you on this, personally I think there should
> not be any lists at all, after all how would you know where you stood
> in the world numbers wise without these lists. Unless you had a good
> spy network you would not know how powerful you were comapred to the
> rest of the world. I know it's nice to know these things but I think
> the game would be better if people had to find these things out for
> themselves.
>
> --- Mordekai <apenney@lpr.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > And no I'm not No1 in hexes visited.
> > > Hexes conquered on the other hand ...
> >
> > I've always thought the lists could be exapanded. I
> > mean number of
> > men is pretty useless as half your manpower is
> > usually stuck in
> > garrisons.
> >
> > Provinces ruled in OK but as it counts for everyone
> > in the pledge
> > chain it is more an alliance measure and hard to
> > work out at that.
> > Maybe all the alliances could send their ranking in.
> > I'm 175th but I
> > have no idea how many actual nations are above or
> > below me.
> >
> > I really want a garrisons destroyed count but that's
> > just me :-)
> >
> > Maximum uses of transcend death would be good
> >
> > Number of factions nobles killed would be good so
> > the ICLF and the
> > BORG could have a competition.
> >
> > Ships sunk definitely
> >
> > Money made from trading for those mercantile types
> >
> > Mordekai
> >
> >
> > PS you are showing your age Minne hexes?? I thought
> > you were all
> > children of the internet age?? Don;t tell me you
> > play boardgames??
> >
>
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