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<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.net/images/stories/east-india.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />Kim has whacked his writing hat on again to talk about the diplomacy options & disposing of your hard earned cash in East India Trading.
<blockquote> The result of all this is diplomacy logic that gives player a lot of options to do multiple things in multiple different ways. Sometimes the reactions of your AI partner might seem irrational, but that is only because they act with reason. And that is realistic.
</blockquote> The problem with diplomacy in games is that it's never good enough, there's never enough options and generally they are just war mongers. (Played to much Civ & TW) Of course it will be interesting to see how it all plays out in EIC. Will it include Indian, Ottoman diplomats or emissaries? I'm not sure they would have enough time to include that depth to the scope of the game but it will be interesting.
On the money side, it's always hard to keep giving the player options to spend money in a game that your supposed to get as much as possible. It's always demoralising to learn that sooner later the better you get at it the less fun your going to have as you have bought everything in the game.  Kim give some good examples of uber purchases like ports or bribes compensation to countries that will do your underhanded bidding.
If only they had Rudd looking after ways to spend money.....(Aussie joke, if your a Liberal)
Check it all out <a href="http://www.eic-game.com/?page=blog_8" target="_blank">HERE</a>
<a href="http://piratesahoy.net/game-news/east-india-company/259-kim-a-wealth-distribution.html" target="_blank">View the full article</a>
<blockquote> The result of all this is diplomacy logic that gives player a lot of options to do multiple things in multiple different ways. Sometimes the reactions of your AI partner might seem irrational, but that is only because they act with reason. And that is realistic.
</blockquote> The problem with diplomacy in games is that it's never good enough, there's never enough options and generally they are just war mongers. (Played to much Civ & TW) Of course it will be interesting to see how it all plays out in EIC. Will it include Indian, Ottoman diplomats or emissaries? I'm not sure they would have enough time to include that depth to the scope of the game but it will be interesting.
On the money side, it's always hard to keep giving the player options to spend money in a game that your supposed to get as much as possible. It's always demoralising to learn that sooner later the better you get at it the less fun your going to have as you have bought everything in the game.  Kim give some good examples of uber purchases like ports or bribes compensation to countries that will do your underhanded bidding.
If only they had Rudd looking after ways to spend money.....(Aussie joke, if your a Liberal)
Check it all out <a href="http://www.eic-game.com/?page=blog_8" target="_blank">HERE</a>
<a href="http://piratesahoy.net/game-news/east-india-company/259-kim-a-wealth-distribution.html" target="_blank">View the full article</a>
