Re: [eia] Manipulaiton question

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I agree that's the way it should be done.

-JJY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MICHAEL P GORMAN" <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:40 PM
Subject: [eia] Manipulaiton question


> As I understand it, the manipulation modifier to the political points 
> occurs before the PSA modification from position on the political point 
> track, the first occuring in 8.4 and the second in 8.6.  So you can't 
> simply add your economic manipulation modifier to your PSA drift modifier 
> for a net result, you have to manipulate, then drift.  This would mean 
> that at high political point totals you could lose the benefit of 
> manipulationa s it would move you off the chart and then still have the 
> full drift rate, not a reduced rate.
>
> So someone at 15 points with a +2 manipulation would still drop three 
> spaces as the manipulation would try to take them off the chart so they 
> can't gain that benefit. Also, someone at the top of the normal track 
> couldn't manipulate into dominant as they would manipulate into an 
> increased drift rate and get kicked back down, they'd have to score points 
> to get into dominant and then manipulate to stay there.
>
> Is this how everyone else reads the manipulation modifier?
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