[Spoon-business] The aforementioned prop alteration

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

Replace the text of proposal 1389 with:

{
Drastically alter 1341.B to read:

{
B. Improvements
If an entity owns a square, they may create Improvements on that square by 
paying BNS and resources equal to the cost of said Improvement to the 
specified recipient. If no entity 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 engulf 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, if the entity 
who is purchasing the Power Plant has no other Power Plants, 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 at any time 
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 30 RUs each nweek if they 
are not linked to a Factory, or 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 40 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. vSOI Platforms
The platforms in this subsection may be purchased from vSOI. Each may target 
an enemy which is between (MIN) and (MAX) spaces away, (RATE) times per 
nweek, no more than once per target per nweek, dealing damage as though it 
were an army with (ATK) Attack Power and 1 Strength. Each costs the 
purchasing entity (BNS) BNS and vSOI (RU) RUs. If the purchasing entity does 
not have enough BNS, or if vSOI does not have enough RUs, the sale is 
cancelled.

TIGGERS: Tactical anti-Infantry Ground to Ground Energy Repeaters
THUMPERS: Tactical Heavy Uber-Mega-Powerful Explosive Railguns
SIMBAS: Surface-based Interception Missile launchers: Barney And Speeders

Name         MIN  MAX  RATE  ATK  BNS  RU  Targets   Special
TIGGER       0    1    100   50   150  10  Armies    N/A
THUMPER      1    3    2     200  300  25  Armies    N/A
SIMBA        0    3    100   50   150  10  Speeders  Can be equipped with 
KEMOSABE missiles
}

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