PBW ethics, opinions please.

Fyron · #1 January 15th, 2003, 11:43 PM

Well... you have to download the ship sets used by other players in the game, or you'll get randomly changing sets.

Gryphin · #2 January 16th, 2003, 12:35 AM

EDIT: was not intended to be ironic. "can" should have been "can't".
Fyron, right, I guess I can't imagine someone down loading a ship set and not looking at a few of the ships.
what am I missing here?

Is this gamey?
Start a series of "Play Style" or "Play Preferances" thread to see if your advesarys will give away their play style.

[ January 15, 2003, 23:53: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

capnq · #3 January 16th, 2003, 12:44 AM

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If you were a real leader of a race that's just discovered how to colonise other worlds, would you really order your scientists to research 'physics' up to 'level 2' in order to be able to research 'phased polaron beams'?

That was one of my favorite things about the 'blind research' option in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. You only specified the general area of tech you wanted your scientists to focus on, but had no control over what specific tech they'd discover.

DavidG · #4 January 16th, 2003, 01:44 AM

To Gozra:

Are you saying you would actually trade your home planet for an empty system???
It sort of sounds like maybe you didn't realize what SamuriProgrammers friend did. He selected Ancient Race, claimed a system he have NEVER been to and then traded it to the AI for his home planet!! Clearly there is a bug on how the AI evaluates the trade value of a system

Generaly I'm of the opinion that if the game allows it it's fair play (the opposition to retro series building really baffles me!) but I think we should avoid taking advantage of really obvious bugs like this. Of course this is just one reason to play PBW all human games.

DavidG · #5 January 16th, 2003, 01:46 AM

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Originally posted by capnq:
That was one of my favorite things about the 'blind research' option in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. You only specified the general area of tech you wanted your scientists to focus on, but had no control over what specific tech they'd discover.

Yea that was a really cool feature. Make a nice addition for SEV

MOO2's occasional research breakthrough was neat too.

[ January 15, 2003, 23:46: Message edited by: DavidG ]

geoschmo · #6 January 16th, 2003, 01:50 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by capnq:
That was one of my favorite things about the 'blind research' option in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. You only specified the general area of tech you wanted your scientists to focus on, but had no control over what specific tech they'd discover.

Yea that was a really cool feature. Make a nice addition for SEV

MOO2's occasional research breakthrough was neat too.

That would be cool, but tough to implement I would think without losing much of the modability of SEIV.

Geoschmo

DavidG · #7 January 16th, 2003, 01:53 AM

Now that I've had some time to think about it here is my definition of "gamey"

Taking advantage of an obvious bug in a game that you suspect your opponents are not aware off.

Of course this would then lead to a discussion on what an "obvious bug" is and how you should know what your opponents do or do not know.