3/7/2012: Shores of Umi Amaterasu

[Jay Luo]

The Crab have called a war council at Lonely Shore City to consider their options, as reports arrive of a Scorpion attack on Clearwater Village and a Crane army being raised at Seawatch Castle.

Meanwhile, the Mantis, driven off the mainland, have resorted to hiring their troops out to the highest bidder, while rebuilding ships at Iron Turtle City.


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Regarding the "fairness" issue, I do try to follow the guidelines I've previously posted as much as possible, but certainly can understand how some people may feel certain results are "unfair". Unfortunately, I cannot perfectly make everyone happy on this subject, but let me try to explain my actions at Castle of the Swift Sword so far:

* With the arrival of Toturi's Army I added 5 pro-Toturi actions and 2 pro-Hantei actions.
* I also deleted 1 action from each side, with the reasoning that "preparing for the battle" actions no longer made sense in the context of a battle that had been going on for months. It has since been pointed out that the removed pro-Toturi action had a LOT more clicks than the removed pro-Hantei action. I'm afraid I did not consider the number of clicks when doing this; I just viewed it as "removing 1 action from each side". Sorry about that.
* In the second wave of actions I added 2 more pro-Toturi actions and 1 more pro-Hantei action.
* When considering the costs and rewards of each action, I made an effort to make the pro-Toturi actions have more synergy. For example, more of the pro-Toturi actions drop troops or other items you can immediately use; many of the pro-Hantei actions require obscure items that come from remote locations.
* I kinda figured the "Battle" contest would lean towards the pro-Toturi side, since the great majority of clans specializing in Battle ended up joining that side.

Anyway, I *have* tried to set up the battle actions to favor the side that I believe should have the tactical advantage. However, I don't really want to simply decree "This side wins; that side loses" because I really like giving players the ability to affect the plot (even when this ends up taking the plot in a different direction than I had planned). I'll admit that I may not have done this perfectly, but I hope this helps explain what my thinking was, at least.

[Hida Joji]

As always the bunny speaks wisdom!

Thx for a great game Jay!


CRABS OUT THERE! Let's talk about what we want!

[Kakita Sojiro]

Let's do this.... Lonely Shore pt.2? *sharpens katana*

We're not fighting two other battles at the same time now. Bring it on, shellbacks!
(I've always wanted to say that. It makes me feel like Shredder )

[Hida Joji]

Mar 7, 2012 18:55:05 GMT -5 Kakita Sojiro said:

Let's do this.... Lonely Shore pt.2? *sharpens katana*

We're not fighting two other battles at the same time now. Bring it on, shellbacks!
(I've always wanted to say that. It makes me feel like Shredder )

You need to see the end of the movie....

[Shoju]

I appreciate your efforts Jay. I know a lot of times, people (myself included) get a little bent about fairness, because we sometimes forget that this is just you, doing this for us. You rock.

[Mirumoto Daisuke]

Speaking of fairness, am I really spending Rallying Cries for Recruits?

[Utaku Mai]

That's kind of what they're for, aren't they?

[Mirumoto Daisuke]

I figure they'd be useful for things like Medium Infantry or Light Infantry or Scouts. Which is the kind of thing that they've been used for in the past.

[Kakita Mitsouko]

^_^ AWESOME! Thank you, Jay!

[Tamori Koichi]

Mar 7, 2012 19:53:35 GMT -5 Mirumoto Daisuke said:

I figure they'd be useful for things like Medium Infantry or Light Infantry or Scouts. Which is the kind of thing that they've been used for in the past.

So true. I was disappointed in that as well. I'm just going to return to Kyuden Agasha and farm more potions.

[Shosuro Motoyami]

You don't get much for your gold and favor when you visit the Mantis in Iron Turtle Bay either.

[Tamori Manji]

I agree (hired thugs was a bit underwhelming) but, well, its still worth the first mastery for an extra earth ring right?

And Jay, I think at least most of us can understand your reasoning and appreciate your many efforts. About the removed actions, isn't there a way to remove actions but still keep the impact they had until the time of their removal during prolonged battles (like this one at CotSS or the one at TR)? That is, keep all the votes until the date when they became unavailable. I think that would make the most sense because it would consider that the battlefield tactics can change but old actions still keep their meaning inside the whole context. Anyway, I think the mission design in CotSS was neatly done, especially how the Toturi missions support one another (that is, as I see it, the best way to describe battlefield superiority and favorable conditions in the game). Btw, can you give us an idea of which will be the next events to be resolved?

[Asahina Yukihime]

Mar 7, 2012 20:20:54 GMT -5 Tamori Manji said:

IBtw, can you give us an idea of which will be the next events to be resolved?

Please? ^__^

I was about to ask same question.

Yay about everything else, just yay \o/

[Tamori Koichi]

A Winter Court report would be nice. ;D

[Utaku Mai]

oh shoot >.< I see what you mean now with regards to the rallying cries (I was thinking of recruits in a general sense, including all infantry types). That is too bad.