[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Zen:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
[qb] And you still didn't reply to my suggestions about you, using your own "simple method" to prove that your strategy is better than Norfleet's one, as you have claimed it is.

If you won't put the effort into answering my questions there is no reason for me to answer yours.

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I did.

It's common courtesy and the burden of proof is yours. If you want to admit that you in no way can prove that Castling is more economical/strategically feasible than a # of other strategies using the same resources and that Castling is not overpowered

That's not what I've said. As for the burden of proof - I've explained below that you can not PROVE any theory such as this one by *examples* in the way you suggested. It is just logically impossible, as I hope you can see yourself. You can only PROVE that the theory is WRONG by showing the example where it is untrue. And since you are the one who offered this "simple method" and said that it MUST be applied, AND you are the one who claim that his strategy is better than Norfleet's "madcastling" strategy, the burden of proof here is clearly on *you*, if you are willing to do it. If you don't, that's fine, but you can't ask other people to do it, since it just wouldn't make sense.

you just want to change it because it's no fun to have to storm 800 castles in order to beat certain unnamed people.

I freely and readly admit that it is certanly not fun to have to storm 800 castles. However it is not the main or the only reason for my position.

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And what about the idea (I am not the author of it btw) about burnable temples?

This is a bad change in my mind. Thematically it doesn't fit in my mind. If you find a temple of the heathen god who claims to be the one True God and I was vying for his place, I would burn anything created for him to the ground, then dance around on the ashes then feed the ashes to a blood slave and sacrifice her for no reason other than to kill it again.

Balance wise, it will too suddenly switch the effect of Dominion and Dominion would be more mutable than I feel should. Dominion is represented in my mind by devotion to a god, this takes time and effort. Even though a good % of the popluation is very fickle in their beliefs, healthy % is not so fickle. Also I don't particularly want to devalue Temples importance.

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I have to say you have completely lost me here Zen. How can you possibly devalue Temples importance by making them harder to be burned down??? Same with dominion switch effect - if would make dominion *less* mutable, not more. Have you really read my Posts before replying to them? Your arguments here are clearly contradict your own position.

[ May 29, 2004, 02:42: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]