Re: dinosaur eggs [spoiler] + "flavor text"

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:15:17 -0700


Bryan asked for spoiler info

> My only question is: what do you have to do to have
> the option of training them as a plow team? Perhaps
> the lack of an Uralda worshipper (or Barntar
> worshipper, or anyone identifying themselves as a
> herder) on the clan ring had something to do with it?

Almost everything you choose to do requires one of your ring members to actually do it.

Joe wrote

> Random or not, what's *really* annoying is when Noble X say that s/he's had
> enough and wants to go plow again (or whatever), and then the next time you
> look, they've got an attitude about why they're not on the ring! Sure
> makes it seem random/useless to me....

Either she had a change of heart, or her family talked her into it, unwilling to be unrepresented on the ring.

Kaj asked

> 1. In some event (I dont remember which) a ringmember says "send at least
> ten footmen to explore..." Does the number of explorers have any other effect
> than the chances of survival?

I'd have to know the specific event, but survival seems like a good thing to send more than 10 for.

> 2. I have seen one noble who resembles Obi-Wan Kenobi, and another who
> resembles Princess Leia. Is this intentional?

You'd have to ask the artist...

Bryan (replying to Kaj)

> I can understand that for the most part weaponthanes
> would rather sit around drinking beer and harrassing
> the Uralda worshippers than riding patrol, but it
> seems to me that their sense of safety and duty would
> overcome their inate laziness at some point. Perhaps,
> depending on your peace/balanced/war clan type the
> game could try and keep up some minimum patrol levels?

It does (though a lower minimum than the two of you would like).

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