[Spoon-business] Don't you people have anything better to do?

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

Eh, replace the whole bloody improvements prop (1389) with this block of 
text:

{
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. An Army may attempt to destroy one Improvement once per nweek by 
attacking it as though it were another Army. 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. Up to two 
Power Plants may be placed on one Grid space, provided no other Improvements 
occupy that Grid space.

B.4. Mines
Mines are Improvements. Mines cost 25 Points and 500 BNS. Each Mine may be 
linked to a Factory which it shares a Grid space with. A Mine may occupy the 
same Grid space as a Factory if they are linked and are the only 
Improvements on that Grid space. A Mine may be linked to no more than one 
Factory. 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 which it shares a Grid space with. A Factory 
may occupy the same Grid space as a Mine if they are linked and are the only 
Improvements on that Grid space. A Factory may be linked to no more than one 
Mine. 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 of a type defined under (TARGET) 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, Airspeeders

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

B.7. LZs
Landing Zones, or LZs, are Improvements which cost 300 BNS.
}}

Remove from Rule 1326.C [[which is out of place in the rule, btw]]:
"LZs are passable uncarryable Grid Objects that may be purchased for 300 BNS 
and placed on any location within two squares of the purchasing player."

Replace "When an Army is Purchased, it can be placed on the Grid either on a 
square adjacent to the General where there are no Armies owned by other 
entities, or on an LZ." with "When an Army is Purchased, it must be placed 
on an LZ owned by the General. If no such LZ exists, it is placed on a 
random unowned LZ."
}

[[There, that ought to be the last of it. If it isn't, that's really a 
bloody shame, as I'm not going to be able to fix it before voting.]]

[[BvS]]




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