RAH Rules: The Rules Keep Rolling On.

[DrSpike]

For your Rah rules game it's a good suggestion, since someone will probably start with a hut in their view. In this case Makeo's point about expending resources to find huts is not so compelling. But more generally I'm not so sure.........it may be best just to leave it the way it is now.

[rah]

As to Makeo's point, there is still the tradeoff of building that extra exploring unit to go after huts instead of a settler, so I also think that it's not so compelling in this isolated instance.

The main reason I brought this up is that it could lead to more balanced starts in terms of terrain. How many times do you start with bad land because you explored in the wrong direction? Knowing where the closest specials are is no guarentee that you will settle better land, but it does improve the odds a bit. Knowing where that closest hut is will also even things out a bit. (granted there will always be hut luck ) The person that finds a hut on their opening screen is more likely to score all four huts in a pattern before someone else even finds a hut. This is usually quite advantagous. If he had to call out the seed number it might even things out a bit.

Just a thought. I appreciate all the discussion.

[Ming]

Hmmm... I kind of like that idea...

That would even things out if a person with a hut gives its location via king chat so it's a level playing field...

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Ming
Hmmm... I kind of like that idea...

That would even things out if a person with a hut gives its location via king chat so it's a level playing field...

Surely you only need the seed number not the specific location?

[rah]

I'm sure that what he means, which is why I've asked SG to see if he can include the seed number and use it as a base

[DrSpike]

Yes I saw. It does seem to me like a reasonable counterbalance to the precision afforded by hutfinder.

[Ming]

If we are going to use it... this sounds reasonable.

And the seed number is a much smarter idea. Now that I think about it, the last thing I would want to do is tell EVERYBODY where (the specific coordinates) the hut is in MY OPENING SCREEN...

(a senior moment, didn't think about that one too much)

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Ming

(a senior moment, didn't think about that one too much)

Talk about painting a bullseye on your head.

[ColdWizard]

hut finders and paper charts
what else do you people use to suck the fun out the game?

[rah]

At least we don't use a second computer named "skill".

But if you really want to suck the fun out, try to calculate the supply and demand commodities on the fly based on the threads in the strat section, or use the science beaker calculator. Hopefully I will never be quite that anal.

[-Jrabbit]

Seems to me that the essence of MP is its interactive nature -- a battle of wits, played in (relatively) real time against human intelligence. insert joke here) The only reasons to agree to use external tools like the hutfinder program would be to assure a level playing field. Pretty much the essence of RAH Rules -- community rules agreement, especially re what's a cheat and what ain't.

Question -- If a player doesn't have Hutfinder (or can't get it to work, or has an iMac...) would that person be within rights to ask others not to use it?

[War4ever]

I don't like this idea. First, huts are luck based and finding one on your opening screen is a blessing..or a curse.

telling everyone the the seeding is removing your advantage/disadvantage.

many times i open huts after building and its barb, barb barb....

IMO, if you get a hut its your secret, just like that opening Gold, or whine etc.

if we tell of opening huts on our screen and give the resource seed out, then i vote to remove all huts from a game and that would suck

we all know the game inside out, and all the little tricks...lets not let the hutfinder completely alter the game ?

[rah]

Originally posted by War4ever
IMO, if you get a hut its your secret, just like that opening Gold, or whine etc.

Classic spelling for wine.


At least this time your response addressed the question I asked, Thanks. And you actually provided some rational

I could go either way on this one, which was why I was really interested in others opinions on this one.

[War4ever]

Originally posted by rah


Classic spelling for wine.


At least this time your response addressed the question I asked, Thanks. And you actually provided some rational

I could go either way on this one, which was why I was really interested in others opinions on this one.

No pun intended

i think i misunderstood the question in my initial response.

I know we have opened up a can of worms with the hut finder especially for MP games, but i think if we continue to make radical changes the game will change too much for our liking.

Think of the great debates we had over Wonders....IMO the only way to counter the hut finder is to remove huts completely and lets be honest, we talked about this before and everyone stated they liked the luck factor.

[DrSpike]

But if SG implemented the change you wouldn't know who had huts on their opening screen, just that someone did.