[Spoon-business] Putting the Grid to good use

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I propose:

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__The Grid: Not Just For Football Anymore__

Drastically alter 1341.B to read:

{
B. Improvements
If a player owns a square, e may create Improvements on that square, if e 
can afford it, by paying BNS and resources equal to the cost of said 
Improvement to the Society specified. If no Society is specified to be the 
recipient of the cost of an Improvement, the cost is paid to the Admin. No 
square may contain more than one Improvement unless explicitly permitted by 
the rules. Armies may attempt to destroy Improvements by attacking them. 
When this happens, 1d3 is rolled. On a 1, the improvement is destroyed. On a 
2, the Improvement is Scrapped. On a 3, nothing happens. At any time, an 
Improvement may be Scrapped, which returns half the capital resource cost, 
rounded down, of the Improvement to the owner of that Improvement.
}

[[
A side note on the nature of Power Plants, which will come up soon: WBE 
developed a way to harvest Entropy from Ancient Monoliths and can it, 
creating a powerful weapon. vSOI reverse-engineered the process, and, with 
the waepon angle on things taken, tried something else. They found that by 
linking a bank of monloliths together and running the entropy from one to 
the next, more entropy could be generated - the entropy of a system always 
increases or stays constant, more often the former. Running this entropy 
through various devices which probably sidestepped physics in an ingenious 
way, they had found a new energy source. Cheap, efficient, endless - almost. 
While theoretically a nearly infinite amount of entropy and thus energy 
could be generated, this would do two things. One, blow up the power plant. 
The sun generates a lot of energy, too, and that is why it is a flaming ball 
of gas which could engulfe this planet whole without a second thought. Lots 
of energy is dangerous. Two, send the universe tumbling catastrophically 
into an entropic lockdown, freezing all processes, stopping all change, and 
causing the ultimate averaging of everything, which would culminate in the 
stoppage of time. That's a bad thing. Luckily, both effects are blocked by 
the stopgap controllers, which draw off excess entropy to be used elsewhere, 
controlling the reaction. If they fail, so does the flow of entropy - it's 
like stopping a resistor from blocking current by cutting it out of the 
circuit. Long story short, we've got cheap power. All it takes is a few 
rocks, some tubing, and a Can of Whoopass to start things off.
     A much shorter note on the naming of the weapons vSOI developed: for 
PR purposes, names such as "The KiloEviscerator" and "The Destructomatic 
T-47" were scrapped, the first because it's disturbing and the second to 
prevent copyright trouble with LucasArts, in favor of more "family-friendly" 
names, or at least acronyms. This led to some interesting strained acronyms 
based on the names of friendly children's entertainment characters. vSOI: 
Corrupting young minds for over 20 nweeks.
     Oh, and this isn't prose. This prop started as prose, but it wasn't 
going to work, so that idea was scrapped and this piece of exposition was 
stuck in. So don't rate it. We now return to your regularly scheduled 
proposal already in progress:]]

{
In rule 1341.B, add subsections:

B.3. Power Plants
Power Plants are Improvements. Power Plants cost 300 BNS and one Can of 
Whoopass. Each Power Plant produces 100 units of Power per nweek. Other 
improvements which require Power may only draw those Units from Power Plants 
owned by the player who owns the improvement requiring power. If a player 
does not have enough Power to power all Improvements they own, a random 
Improvement that player owns which requires Power is scrapped.

B.4. Mines
Mines are Improvements. Mines cost 25 Points and 500 BNS. Each Mine may be 
linked to a Factory. A Mine may occupy the same Grid space as a Factory if 
they are linked and are the only Improvements on that Grid space. Mines 
require 40 units of Power each nweek and produce 20 RUs each nweek if they 
are not linked to a Factory, or require 50 units of Power and produce 15 RUs 
each nweek if they are linked to a Factory.

B.5. Factories
Factories are Improvements. Factories cost 25 Points and 20 RUs. Each 
Factory may be linked to a Mine. A Factory may occupy the same Grid space as 
a Mine if they are linked and are the only Improvements on that Grid space. 
Factories require 50 units of Power each nweek. If a Factory is linked to a 
Mine, the Factory produces 100 BNS each nweek. If a Factory is not linked to 
a Mine, it produces 10 BNS each nweek.

B.6. Defense Platforms
Defense Platforms are Improvements. Each Defense Platform requires 10 Power 
each nweek. Up to two Defense Platforms may be placed on each Grid space, 
provided no other Improvements occupy that Grid space, or one may be placed 
on a square already containing an Elbonian Airways, Elbonian Starways, or 
Power Plant.

B.6.1. TIGGERS
Tactical anti-Infantry Ground to Ground Energy Repeaters, or TIGGERS, may be 
purchased from vSOI for 10 RUs and 150 BNS. TIGGERS may attack enemy Armies 
up to two Grid spaces away, dealing damage once per nweek per enemy army as 
though they were an enemy army with 50 Attack Power and 1 Strength.

B.6.2. THUMPERS
Tactical Heavy Uber-Mega-Powerful Explosive Railguns, or THUMPERS, may be 
purchased from vSOI for 25 RUs and 300 BNS. THUMPERS may, once per nweek, 
attack an enemy army which is two or three Grid spaces away, dealing damage 
as though they were an enemy army with 200 Attack Power and 1 Strength.

B.6.3. SIMBAS
Surface-based Interception Missile launchers: Barney And Speeders, or 
SIMBAS, may be purchased from vSOI for 10 RUs and 150 BNS. SIMBAS may, once 
per nweek per speeder, fire upon any speeder within three spaces, removing 
25 Integrity from that speeder. SIMBAS may also be used to fire KEMOSABE 
missiles, which must be purchased seperately.
}
}

[[BvS]]

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