In some games, like monopoly, changing the number of players has a serious affect on the starting supply of goods and the consumption. In others, like 18xx, the game is "in theory" the same -- 18xx has about the same total starting money, divided among the players, and consumes corporations/trains at about the same rate.

In MULE, having a 2 player game means that you will develop land much slower, bring income into the colony much slower, and then your lower-valued colony is still judged at 12 rounds.

How can it be made closer to the 4 person game? How can "game play" be kept more-or-less constant as players change?

Ideas:
1. Fewer players == more rounds
2. Fewer players == more time per round, more starting cash/resources, and more land given out.

Thoughts?

In the final round, food is considered useless, while energy is considered valuable.

On round 12, you are shown as having a demand of 0 for food, and zero for energy.
But in calculating the value of the commodities for end-game scoring, food goes down (colony has a need of zero), but energy goes up (colony has actual need).

  INFO [Shop.calcBuySellPrice]                       Current Food price $89
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Food shop: 0, total: 23, needed: 0
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Food is decreased to 25%
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Food buy price $15 sell price $50
...
  INFO [CollectionPhase.goToNextPhase]               (P10) keybounce2 Food: 6 critical: 0 surplus: 6 money: $13821

  INFO [Shop.calcBuySellPrice]                       Current Energy price $37
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Energy shop: 0, total: 26, needed: 42
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Energy is increased to 146%
  INFO [Shop.printPriceFactor]                       Energy buy price $39 sell price $74
...
  INFO [CollectionPhase.goToNextPhase]               (P10) keybounce2 Energy: 11 critical: 0 surplus: 11 money: $13821

http://www.planetmule.com/hi-score-game/game?game_id=18753

I never see anyone not a beginner sell land. I'd like to see something done about that.

Why do people not sell land? I think there's two reasons:
1. You get your money too late -- you sell it now, and you get the money next round. By then you'll no longer need the money.
2. You can't control a minimum bid.

Things I'd like to see:
1. If you want to sell land, it sells right after your turn. Before the buying/selling phase.
2. You can specify a minimum price.
3. If it has a mule on it, that is flagged and clearly visible.

Land with a good mule is much more valuable than land that you have to run a mule out to. I routinely have empty plots for much of my game.

Abolutely Populous is worth a remake. But do it right.

The IBM populous stank.
The Amiga one was wonderful.

But I can't find the Amiga Populous (nor the Amiga Killing Game Show) anywhere to run in an emulator -- the copy protection on those must have just been too good.

(In fairness, I did see deprotected KGS's, but they didn't get the clock-rate right -- the game got faster and faster each level, and was unwinnable by level 5 iirc.)

It wasn't just the sound. The controls in the Amiga version were better.

Both 3.5 and 3.6 for me are impossible to click in the username/password field.

I have to tab into those fields.

Before you can talk about the plural of Wampus, you need to establish the existence of two or more. Everything discovered so far is that Wampus only are seen singularly; the implication is that there is only one of it in existence -- and it is both immortal and teleportational. Kinda like the Winslow.

Now, if there is only a single Wampus, then the plural is meaningless. It's like asking what the pluras of God is. Everyone knows that "Dios" is already plural. :-)

One fish, two fish.
One God, Two God.
One Wampus, ...

Sounds like fun

Why not reserve the AD award for the AI's?

I could not find a better forum section for this, sorry.

If you register an account with a wrong email address, you have no ability to correct that email address, forcing you to re-register with a new name.

I'd like to see the crystite selling happen first, BEFORE smithore.

Simply put: It's too hard to buyout the smithore if you don't get your funds until after-wards. The market manipulator in me wants to manipulate markets.