Re: [spoon-discuss] Junk

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>	The robots are battery operated, starting with 100 units of energy, 
>and unable to exceed 150 units; any robot action takes some energy 
>(moving is 15, digging into a filled square is 20, etc.). They also 
>have solar panels to replenish their power - each robot gains 20 energy 
>back every nweek, unless they're in a tunnel under the Junk.	
>
-I like everything about this except for nweeks as opposed to checkpoints and "20 energy back every nweek." That seems a little low, given that that's an nweek of digging - potentially, one could spend two nweeks moving into a tunnel, two digging, two returning, and then five doing /nothing./ That's 11 nweeks, or about five and a half months, all taken for two 1/20 chances of finding a Shiny Thing. I'd say make it a move every checkpoint and at least 30 energy gained per checkpoint in the sun, if not more, and an ability (or the promise of a proposal later on to create this ability) to strap more panels on your robot and/or leave a generator in the sun to tap into at your leisure, both of which would speed up recharge.

I have more ideas, but they take this away from the simple skeleton you're obviously laying down, and besides, if I tell you then I can't propose them later hee hee.-

[[BvS]]
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