(Message davew:1424)
Subj: Re: [L5RINFO] Strange game connections
From: David Williams <l5r@TSTONRAMP.COM>

  To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 22:08:51 PDT
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>I was looking through various games recently, and noticed some strange
>connections.
>First was when I pulled up Alpha Centauri again.  The seven factions look a
>lot like the seven great clans in terms of strengths and weaknesses, and
>the four win conditions correspond to the most common four victory
>conditions in L5R.  The conquest victory obviously maps to the military
>win, the "vote for supreme leader" is analagous to L5R's honour win, and
>the transcendance victory (research the entire tech tree and build a huge
>secret project) is similar in flavour to enlightenment.  The economic
>victory is a little more of a stretch, where you basicly buy off all the
>remaining factions all at once, but is that so different from the
>undermining of the dishonour win?  Then there are the factions...

All you're really saying is that I stole ideas from my favorite
computer game designer (I want to grow up to be Sid) before he had
them...

Hehe...


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David Williams
l5r@tstonramp.com
Lead Designer - Legend of the Five Rings CCG, Deadlands CCG
Alderac Entertainment Group

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