| Re: Benchmarking races |
Fri, 11 July 2003 12:30  |
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 Ozone |
 | Warrant Officer |
Messages: 115
Registered: April 2003
Location: Twilight Zone | |
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I usually do it from a historical prospective. Going back to see the resource/tech levels of a race from a real game at particular years.
I really don't have the patience to do much test-bedding (I get board easily) - I go for the trial by fire approach. That is not to say that I don't put a lot of thought into the race design process.
Basically I follow this process:
1) Look at the game settings to see what kind of race/strategy benefits from them.
2) Decide on game strategy
3) Narrow down PRT/econ model
4) Do some research (past races I've played / news groups)
5) Finalize race to match strategy (by the time I get to this point I have got approximately 90% of the race decided upon. Then I just tweak the race wizard looking for break points in the hab/econ settings. I might play a few turns just to make sure it will start smooth it and scout around to get an idea of what the initial hab looks like but that is pretty much it.
It has worked pretty well so far. I do appreciate all of the folks that have posted their test bed results however!
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