RAH Rules: The Continuing Evolution

[Ming]

Yeah... I just love it when a player drops, and he happens to be right next to you. Especially in Republic.

[ColdWizard]

updated with that no contact with ai thing

Originally posted by rah
Nothing worse than preparing the hordes and then the player drops, the AI build the GW and between that and your senate, NO WAR FOR YOU>

tweak the rules.txt again to take out the GW (just set it's prereq to no)

[Deity Dude]

Originally posted by ColdWizard
tweak the rules.txt again to take out the GW (just set it's prereq to no)

That would have a slightly different impact on the game than it is now. Quite often I start building the GW and switch to another wonder when I learn the pre-requisite tech. I believe what you suggest wouldn't allow that anymore. Just something to consider.

[rah]

Good point. One question though. What if when you near completion, all the other wonders have been built and you aren't going to get the pre-requisite in time. You can try to neutralize shield production to zero, but that is harder in a 2x game.

Do you build the infamous 600 shield elephant or pikeman?

But I guess that wouldn't happen since no one ever build the embassy in our games.

[Deity Dude]

Either zero out shields or put city in revolt and max out trade

[rah]

Sometimes you can't zero out trade in 2x, and how long can you keep the city in revolt?

[rah]

Shameless bump

[Ming]

So what do people think now that we have been playing with an extended Oracle for awhile?

I personally like it. It gives you another happiness wonder to shoot for that's actually worth something.
When you miss HG by a single turn, it still hurts, but at least you can switch to it and still have a cure for some of your happiness problems. I give it a big thumbs up!

[rah]

Yes, it actually gets build now. It seems that some people will now bypass mics and head straight for gunpowder if they can build oracle. Thumbs up on that change.

Rich

[Ming]

We've seen Mics built less and less in our games. Nobody really seems interested in going down the religion path now and our opting more for invention.

It just provides more options now!

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by Deity Dude
That would have a slightly different impact on the game than it is now. Quite often I start building the GW and switch to another wonder when I learn the pre-requisite tech. I believe what you suggest wouldn't allow that anymore. Just something to consider.

it would also prevent people (people that are drunk or have memory problems, for example) from accidentally building it if they forget to change it to something else

[rah]

Yep, sometimes the beer causes problems.
Nothing like Watching someone build a wonder that is already obsolete. Or someone building GL in a duel.

[atawa]

Originally posted by Ming
We've seen Mics built less and less in our games. Nobody really seems interested in going down the religion path now and our opting more for invention.

It just provides more options now!

It seems to me that everyone is going on the same techpath now, it might give more options but not equal ones it seems.

[rah]

Naw, there will always be the trade guys that will shun invention for as long as they can to keep their bonuses up. And while fewer are rushing toward mono, it just comes a little later in the game. So the choices aren't really changing as much as the timing is. So some will think there are now more choices, while others with think the best path is now clearer which translates to fewer choices.

[rah]

Another shameless bump to keep it on the first page.