Suggested Rule Change: Drop "Teach"

[harry]

Hi all,

  has everyone settled in by now? I kind of have, although it took me a while to realize how fast factions can potentially grow in this game. In other news I couldnt help but notice that some factions have already disappeared and others look rather neglected. Hope, I'm not last man standing already.

Enno, do you still plan on doing the player suggested rule updates you mentioned? If so, I would suggest to get rid of "teach". I'm already losing sleep thinking about how I'm going to set up exponentially growing teaching pyramids as the game progresses.

Have a nice report day!

Harry

[Enno Rehling]

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Yes, I can still make changes to the game as it is running, and this is an easy one, too!

Anybody who has read my little rant on atlantisdev some days ago knows that I feel very much the same way; TEACH is a mistake, it adds a lot of required micro-management to the game without giving any meaningful complexity or decision-making. There is only one way for a player to respond to this challenge (optimize the number of days learned), and not to do the intense labor it requires means to fall behind.

The easiest thing to do would be to remove TEACH as a command entirely. The compromise that I implemented in Eressea before was to require teachers to be at least two levels above their students. Either solution is fine with me for the current game, since I'm already writing a very different new game behind the scenes that won't have a TEACH command at all.

I'll help the discussion with some statistics. This is from the most recent turn's summary:

Inhabited Regions: 81
Factions: 11

Units: 375
Player Population: 1571

I've created a form for voting on this (with these two options) at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14-oC1qf7eHYYFjggfYjwJuE_cIYWmTr3MgZ134KL3Mk/viewform - please cast your votes before Midnight (CET), Saturday July 6th, and whichever option gets most of the votes cast by then is the one that I will implement after the turn that Sunday.
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[harry]

>Anybody who has read my little rant on atlantisdev

just read it. Good to hear you're working on another game.

Concerning your design ideas, it seems to me that most of them (like cities and pre equipped units) would transform the game into something similiar to civilization (not implying thats a bad thing).

> require teachers to be at least two levels above their students

yeah, I never quite saw the point of that. Voted for losing teach completely.

kr

Harry

[Enno Rehling]

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There have been five responses so far, and all but one of them are in favor of dropping TEACH entirely. If things stay this way, then Sunday is going to be the last time that TEACH will have an effect. I've almost finished the code for disabling it.

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