+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Olympia Times times@olympia.rt.com | | January 13, 1992 v2n1 | | | | Turn 8 Circulation 60 "BLISS is ignorance." | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Orders due: Sunday, January 19, 1992 Questions, comments, bug reports, to play: olympia@rt.com Missed last issue? Send a message to server@olympia.rt.com: path send times.v1n7 Sorry for the delay processing this turn. Changes: o Study begin costs are back, but they are charged per-unit, instead of per-man. Thus, the costs to a learn combat for a 10 man unit will be the begin cost (50 gold), plus 10 times the daily cost (10 times 2 gold per day = 20 gold per day). o Skill dilution when recruiting, impressing or transfering men is now more lenient. Previously, dilution was based on the simple average of the skill levels. A level 6 combat unit with one man which recruited one more man would be reduced to level 3. This imposed a harsh penalty on highly trained units which acquired more men, since progressively longer study times are necessary to achieve high skill levels. The new formula takes this into account when merging men into units. The level 6 unit above would only fall to level 4 with the addition of one recruit. Although some small amount of skill points may be lost to "friction" (integer round-off), effort spent on study will be mostly conserved across recruit, impress and transfer. o The MESSAGE order no longer has a 25 gold charge. o I've changed the WAIT command back to its original usage. The WAITFOR command is gone. There is also a new wait option, "stack", which will wait until two entities are stacked together. WAIT