Cardinal Ape wrote:I think it should be free to play.
The Union gets free sailors and artillery with RGDs, and they get those units in 1 turn. Six turns for the smuggler RGD to kick in, plus the build time of the unit.
The main reason I never play the Smuggler RGD is that I view NM to be too precious. I can't bring myself to lower the fighting ability of all my units on the board for 8 WSU.
Pocus wrote:I'm not sure the RGD code is powerful enough to discriminate between an oceanic harbor and a riverine one, sorry.
Pocus wrote:As for the balance, 1 NM vs 8 WSU, perhaps the culprit comes from having too many WSUs overall in the game, both side, too early, and not from the RGD? If the pressure was higher on WSU production, gaining 8 WSU would seem more juicy.
Captain_Orso wrote:Hi FightingBuckeye,
Can you still load the turn when the Smuggler RGD fired? If you can, could you check what the MC and Loyalties were at that time?
EDIT:
Looking closer into this RGD, it's really kind of ugly.
- It costs 1 NM That's tantamount to saying the Southerners were so obsessed with getting luxury goods from Europe that they'd get their frillies up in a bunch if the CS government required to have important war supplies take priority on a couple of shiploads.
- It takes 6 turns to mature What the heck?!? If you got 2 WSU each turn for 4 turns, I could understand, but the all or nothing after 6 turns (3 months -- runners didn't sail to Europe, only the Caribbean).
- It can be played in any city with a harbor, whether on the coast or far inland Do I need to comment this?
I'm not sure the RGD code is powerful enough to discriminate between an oceanic harbor and a riverine one, sorry.
As for the balance, 1 NM vs 8 WSU, perhaps the culprit comes from having too many WSUs overall in the game, both side, too early, and not from the RGD? If the pressure was higher on WSU production, gaining 8 WSU would seem more juicy.
I'm certain the game could be made to be more economically realistic, the question is would the effort be worth the work and would the players even want to play that game?
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