Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:53 am
It would be painful mostly because the recipient doesn't have any say in the matter. By randomly making the player an automatic recipient of a city transfership, you've taken away the recipient's ability to decide how to use their scholars AND may have caused the recipient to incur a scholarship debt. You've put the recipient in a possibly unfavorable position because it might cause them to alter their plans and change the focus of their source allocation (e.g., instead of building structures or recruiting troops, now they have to buy scholarships and re-educate scholars to make up the ones which were involuntarily used). They've been made to incur a cost of a transaction in which they've had no say. That's a pretty big deal.
At the very least, my proposed method allows the recipient a chance to review their options and the opportunity to deny the offer.
-Kaleel
At the very least, my proposed method allows the recipient a chance to review their options and the opportunity to deny the offer.
-Kaleel