Warlord3 - Ruff's Shadow Report and Comments

[Ruff_Hi]

Well, what happened is this - if you don't put any spiritual civs on the map, people will often try to found all 7 religions just because it's something they can't do in normal games. Unfortunately it turns out that this is a game breaker as far as the diplomacy system is concerned.

I must admit that I completely overlooked this part of the game (starting tech). In hind sight, I might have swapped out some starting tech (ie Korea gets something else for Myst) and added Myst to the AI's starting tech. That might have mixed up the religious angle a little bit.

[Swiss Pauli]

I think a more interesting angle would have been to count shared religion modifiers negatively in the scoring. Would have made people try for shared civics wins, I think.

[KMad]

oh i like that swiss pauli! i actually took a screenshot in a game where tokugawa gave me 250g as a good friend gift at pleased, when he was not in merc, and he was in FR, because i was so amazed at my incredible jedi mind tricks to have him at pleased without those buffers . even tho i was sad to see friendly go away when he changed both civics at once. very interesting idea.

[sooooo]

12 submitted games though - not bad at all! IIRC, all but one of those was a complete game. Does this dispel the myth that warlords is "unpopular" at RB?

[KMad]

not that i'm admitting to being the guilty party, but i heard a rumor that even that individual had fun, and the reason for that individual not finishing his or her game was not in any way related to the warlords vs. vanilla thing. i heard this from a friend's dentist's nephew etc. as usual.