RAH rules: Description and Origination of

[War4ever]

i don't think he did Ming..........i think he only changed it on his....but of course i could be wrong

[rah]

NO, didn't change it on yours. You can do that yourself, using the instructions above. AND don't forget, don't tell anybody.

[War4ever]

i am wondering what an early republic with extended oracle and the powerfull HG can do...should have done it last night as it was i still ended up with like 28 cities

[rah]

Somebody remind me to change it on ming's machine this friday BEFORE we start.
But don't tell anybody.

Rich

[War4ever]

ok i will remind you not to remind anyone else

[rah]

Ok, I changed it on Ming's machine. But don't tell anybody.

Rich

[Straybow]

Cripes, guys. altering WoW expiration is probably the second thing I toyed with, right after messing with movement values. I make all the ancient and renaissance WoWs expire, and I try to even out the expiration timing for ancients to the early industrial, and the renaissance to the early modern. For this I treat Leo's as renaissance and Shake's as industrial (basically no change).

Try that one on for size.

[rah]

What's your point? We have resisted modifying rules.txt for a long time. I don't plan on making it a habit. We've wanted to minimize what we have to explain to new players, and not change the game so much that new players coming in will feel they are at a disadvantage. Oracle was useless and it was built in only 1 in 50 games, usually by accident.

Not planning on anymore changes for now.

[ColdWizard]

i'd attach the altered version of the rah rules.txt in the original post, but i can't edit in an attachment to a post that didn't originally have an attachment

[rah]

Considering that we only changed 3 characters in the original, that shouldn't be a problem.

[Straybow]

Rah said, "What's your point?"

The point is strategy. If Orcale was useless because it expired far too soon maybe the all-favored race-to-get-them wonders are too powerful. Making Pyramids, Cope's, Mike's, and Mag's expire changes the strategy involved in deciding to build them.

Many MP games don't last into the modern age and making them expire at that point won't effect those games. Then again most of the modern wonders never get built at all in MP games for that same reason. But you couldn't count on that in ignoring the altered expiration timing.

[rah]

Blatant Bump.

[DrSpike]

hehe, I'm going to report you to.........the........moderator............oh.

[rah]

For a game last week someone asked me where the thread was, (right after he asked "what the F*** are RAH rules" ) so I figure I'd keep it on the first page in terms of last 10 days.

Rich

[DrSpike]

Sounds like someone to accidentally slip and add to your ignore list.