May 28th, 2004, 08:47 AM
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Re: Two Birds with One Stone Suggestion
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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
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Originally posted by PvK:
All the clams in the game only generate a maximum number of astral pearls equal to the number of sea provinces on the map. If the world holds more clams than seas, then only certain random clams chosen each month, will get pearls, up to that number.
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Nice. Except that in the pros and cons list, one of the things listed as an pro was that it was one of the few things Atlantis had going for it.
Er, so? Any fix would also take massive hoarding away from Atlantis (and every one else), no? If Atlantis and/or water magic need another (less potent and fiddly) boon, I'm sure one can be invented. Several have already been proposed.
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It made me think though. What if only a water-mage could use it? Dont we have oher items like that? (the only thing that come to mind at the moment is the stupid crown that only Ermor can use but I keep getting from indies)
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I think that's a neat idea, in that it would add mage investment to the equation. Someone might want to re-do the numbers to see what effect it has on the abuse potential. However I'd say that if you are concerned about affecting nation balance whilst fixing clam abuse, that as others have pointed out, this just reduces the number of nations that can efficiently abuse it, without removing the abuse. What I like about my idea is it by definition guarantees there will not be an abusive amount of clam income, because there would be a limit.
Just increasing the gem cost might be sufficient, too. Adjust the math that was done - seems like there must be a balance point. 20 Water gems? 40? 20 Water + 10 or 20 Astral? I sort of think 20 Water would blunt the problem, but I'd want to see the resulting change in the numbers that were done before.
I would be happy to see another use or two for water gems, though I don't agree that there aren't good things to do with water gems - there are quite a few. The problem is that the clam hoard thing gets so powerful once the curve gets out of control.
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