Baron von Skippy on 20 Mar 2003 03:44:01 -0000


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[Spoon-business] The aforementioned prop alteration


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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