Re: [Openme-developers] Racial Abilities/Traits

[Danny F. <da...@fr...>]

At 15:05 2003-01-16 +0000, you wrote:
> >>Instead of giving one +50 allign and the other -50, give the first one
> >>+100 and leave the other one at *0*.
>
> >Why? I vote for decisive advantages and disadvantages, make break
> >decisions, not minor stuff that can be easily overlooked when choosing
>
>Its a difference if I only have 50 points less than someone else or if
>I have -50 points, which have probably a dramatic effect on trading,
>IMP protection and other areas.

Well the being minus aligned (evil) will have benefits as well that might 
make choosing to be so a helluva lot more tempting... so the 5% price 
increase in ships might be well worth it.

> >race... or we're back to "Who has the best ships, never mind the rest"
> >and thats what we didn't want... right?
>
>Thats anyway the case, espacialy if you do not follow my point of view
>the only reason to take a race is "can yopu cope" with the ships ...

Trying to follow your line of thought but you seam to be overly intent on 
making everything even, too even... wasn't it you who hit me over the head 
to look at the player types?


>The only parameters wich are not "user fixable" are XP loss/gain and
>research/construction/fabrication costs.
>
>So, who realy cares about allign? Only those who will write in forum
>about it.

Well only because we gave some significance to it, it costs to be minus 
aligned, difference is now they get something for it. (No not narcotics)


> > >I simply do not like it that way as it is to war/weapon focused.
> >
> > Well so the construction, building & research points are slated towards 
> war?
> > I didn't see that... but maybe...
> >
> > /Wiz
>
>increasing weapon construction price for KEA ... is not realy an
>economic thing, is it? Building my turrets/shields/dhs for more money
>... or less ... is not a war issue? Researching ... wehre the only
>things I can do with research is weapon construction ... is not a war
>issue?

Well depends, it might be for an alliance. Don't you think so?


>Finaly: it makes more sense to read/analyse my mail in context. Instead
>of trying to make me look stupid by commenting every sentence isolated
>:-)
>
>If you don't like me to give my thoughts to OME internals ... then just
>tell me and I leave the list.
>
>aos

Erm, if you think I make  you look silly, you need to sharpen your 
arguments, this has *nothing* to do with you, only the issues at hand.
Although I'd really appreciate you showing a wee bit humility before the 
fact that your calculations / ideas / suggestions *may* not be the only 
ones that are correct, there are alot of people on this list that can 
actually have half a brain and know how to use it.