Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Orcish Alcohol Tolerance

[Christopher Bartlett <bridgeweaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, but consider something like my recent mass-mining. After all that 
> work, to simply lose all my RUs just because somebody forgot to fix 
> Tequila when we added Charm Wins would just, well, suck.
> Sorry, but my reaction is that Yes it does, so work to prevent others from 
> winning.



> Then also, that takes away all incentive to spend points on things. It 
> costs a fair amount of resources to purchase and equip a speeder; if 
> you're just going to lose it in a few nweeks anyway, why bother? Better to 
> hoard said resources and be the one causing the reset.
> Not if spending points on things is a step to preventing others from winning.



> This suggests also that long term progress will be impossible - how can we 
> create a diverse, complicated world when everything is destroyed every few 
> nweeks? I envision a grid covered with interesting things - buildings, 
> mines, factories, guns, trenches, villages, cities - inhabited by players, 
> NPCs, speeders, speeder variants,  hundreds of possible objects (hopefully 
> all stored in a nifty little properties database, so that we can track all 
> of them without lots of messiness), and diverse abilities for everyone and 
> anything.
> Nice, but that's only one vision.



> That will never happen if every village and speeder is obliterated on an 
> nmonthly basis.
> Then work to prevent such obliterations if you have a stake in preventing 
> them.  The world is a dangerous place, or I would like it to be.


It comes down to competing visions of what the world should be.  I would 
like to see entropy have vicious effects and am slowly putting together a 
proposal to bring that about.  I have purposely failed to participate in 
the grid game because I am waiting for it to matter, so that it is worth 
the extra time it takes me to track everything.  I'm all in favor of 
complexity in the grid if it serves an over-arching purpose, but complexity 
for its own sake is anathema to me.

I am also in favor of having the grid be a fragile thing that it behooves 
all the players to protect, even while working toward goals of their own.

        Bridgeweaver


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