2016 The Choosing Philosophy and Other Stuff

[Jumpingfist]

Why not save us the spread sheet and post the reaction levels like enemy ally.

[HeadHoncho]

A fine idea, assuming the results of spells that affect reaction level are also public.

[Ry Vor]

Why not save us the spread sheet and post the reaction levels like enemy ally.

We've discussed having a sub section in the political results for all declarations, separate from the political results such as who usurped what.

But we're not revealing all current reaction levels in all regions - just notifying of an effort by a given king in a given turn to Enamor or Denigrate in a region.  Again, the idea is to open the world a bit and maybe make it easier for players who don't tend to do a lot of diplomacy to have a pulse on what else is happening.

[Jumpingfist]

It will also would create an advantage for the experienced player that knows the starting reactions vs one the does not. And creates more work because now you must track all those reaction changes or you fall behind in over all knowledge.

[Lord Thanatos]

A fine idea, assuming the results of spells that affect reaction level are also public.

I think spells should remain unreported - sort of an insidious, mostly subliminal impact on the populace.

Just my two cents.

[Lord Thanatos]

Why not save us the spread sheet and post the reaction levels like enemy ally.

We've discussed having a sub section in the political results for all declarations, separate from the political results such as who usurped what.

But we're not revealing all current reaction levels in all regions - just notifying of an effort by a given king in a given turn to Enamor or Denigrate in a region.  Again, the idea is to open the world a bit and maybe make it easier for players who don't tend to do a lot of diplomacy to have a pulse on what else is happening.

I think Ry Vor is indicating the attempts are made public - not whether those attempts were successful or not.

[Jumpingfist]

I do not mind just thought the idea of getting more automated was to also avoid the need to open a bunch of extra stuff. If players are at a disadvantage for not keeping up an extra spread they are more likely to stop playing. Many feel they are to busy for such things to play a game.

[Ry Vor]

A fine idea, assuming the results of spells that affect reaction level are also public.

I think spells should remain unreported - sort of an insidious, mostly subliminal impact on the populace.

Just my two cents.

Yes, the universal results will be for Denigrate or Enamor by Ruler or Staff, but not the spells like Infuriate.

[Hawk_]

Revealing all Enamour orders will prevent surprise invasions to some extent.

[Ry Vor]

I do not mind just thought the idea of getting more automated was to also avoid the need to open a bunch of extra stuff.   If players are at a disadvantage for not keeping up an extra spread they are more likely to stop playing.   Many feel they are to busy for such things to play a game.

I'm not sure we are getting each other's thoughts here.   As the Elves, you'll get a universal result that the Dwarves attempted to denigrate the Dark Elves in the Talking Mountains.  You won't necessarily know what the result was or what the new Dark Elven reaction is in that region.  Most of these won't necessarily influence your own turn much, but you'll have an idea in that case that the Dwarves are concerned about the Dark Elves, or at least want kingdoms to think they are.

To restate the philosophy part, we want players to feel it is a 12 kingdom game, not 3 or 4 as the local wars tend to boil it down to.  You'll have a feel for what is going on in the rest of the world without having to be doing diplomacy with distant kingdoms to get that sense.  Also, to the perspective of those that feel that defending is much harder than attacking, it will be an enhancement to know a neighbor is enamoring in your region.