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Re: The battle for Taiwan
- From: Elijah Meeks <elijahmeeks at yahoo dot com>
- To: Hans Ronne <hronne at comhem dot se>
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:18:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: The battle for Taiwan
> That's an interesting idea! To elaborate further on
> this theme, I guess one
> could also use the wreck-unit code to upgrade rather
> than downgrade units,
> perhaps as a way to simulate combat experience.
> Something similar to when
> "great leaders" appear in Civ3 (a concept that plays
> a too big role in that
> game, in my opinion).
Yeah, I've used a similar technique to introduce
random events in the new Opal. I seed the world with
a number of independent units that have an accident
chance of 1% to be destroyed each turn, so
occasionally an independent pirate ship or bandit
fortress or hero or dragon will show up. I like the
effect.
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