Re: [haggis] Rule trading

[mballinger@fibres.net]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:09:25PM -0400, Reed, Jim wrote:
> > How do people feel about rule trading?  Should it even be
> > allowed?  Should there be a limit for how many you get to know?
> 
> Trading rules is necessary when we start with only 3 of them.  Now if we
> started with half or three-fourths of the rules, my answer might be
> different (we might be less motivated to trade them anyway).
> 
> The problem now is that players early in the game can learn the rules
> quickly and then not be motivated to trade them any more.  Players coming
> online later in the game can't learn enough rules to be competitive.
> 
> Being limited to learning some percentage of the rules puts a different
> twist on the game.  We might all be reluctant to trade rules until we could
> get some hints at which ones might be the most important.  What would be a
> good limit?  Half, three-fourths, all-but-two?
> 
> A lower limit makes easier it would be for latecomers to learn almost as
> many as everyone else.  It also makes the game outcome more random for
> everyone.

Then how about this:

* you can receive up to as many rules as you originally started with.  Any more involved in a trade will be discarded.
* you can only complete trades for rules after everybody has put an offer out, you can trade cards-only from the get-go
* you can only have 3 offers out there (from you).  Any more and you're warned to withdraw one first.

?