Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:07:48 +0100
From: "Middle Earth Games"
<me@MiddleEarthGames.com>
Subject: For FlagshipHi,
Please write to Flagship carol@pbmgames.com
Please tell them about Middle Earth for their
Rumours from the Front
section.
We never get enough coverage in this section of the
magazine, but as you
guys are all keen perhaps I can ask you to do this
small thing
feedback number 1.
alas, since their web-page is 'not very good' at
http://www.pbmgames.com/ I don't plan to email them.
and my second reply (about bribing)
Why would their price devaluate?
Answer: Ever been unemployed for a few months?
I have my opinion and it is the same as yours
Richard...but it was
worth asking, in my opinion.
I'm siding with the view that I couldn't imagine why
the price would drop. Its true that in real life
people may accept a lower wage after a few months of
unemployment. But this isn't real life. Some person
had to write a bit of programming code to handle
bribing. Its a lot easier to say 'the character doing
the order has skill X, the target has skills Y, and Z
is being spent. Lets roll those dice and see if the
order works', then saying 'lets do all the above, PLUS
look up when the nation was eliminated, look up the
current turn, add a percentage based on the difference
of the two to the success rate, and then compare the
results to see it if works'.
I don't know about you lot, but I'll always for the
easier code.
<on a side note, I think the turn number that
determines when the characters of a eliminated nation
disappears is keep on the nation, and not on each
character. But that's not relevant to this discussion>
If it possible that someone might send in person A who
spents X and then moves away hoping that the order
works (been there, done that). That order fails so
they move in person B who spents less money on the
bribe. If this works, then someone may think that the
money being needed is less then before. But I think
other things affected the result.
On another side note, its a great laugh sending in a
great emissary to spend 5K on a super-character on the
same turn as someone on your side spends 5k on a
crappy 30 pointer. But I try not to laught too loud 
thanks
din
p.s. last side note. After the first LoRT saw the
basic DVD and then the extended DVD come out a few
months apart, why would anyone want the basic DVD for
this movie <unless you plan to buy both> ? So I would
be interested in seeing what the retail figures for
the current DVD would be like.
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