spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: New Rule Proposal: Gridwork 2

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like the Big Rock idea, although it suffers from the same problem as your 
ricochet theory. The Grid is a Big Place. Effectively using Big Rocks, in 
such a Big Place will be *extremely* expensive.

What might make this more useful is if we could move faster on the Grid. 
That *is* a problem. I realized it prior to proposing the Grid, but didn't 
have time to come up with a solution.

I'm working on one now.

--gritter

At 04:06 AM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> A Player can purchase a Big Rock to put on the Grid.  E may either specify 
> the target location of the Big Rock at a cost of 10+5d3 points, or allow 
> the Big Rock to be placed randomly at a cost of 5+5d3 points.
>
> A Big Rock must be placed in a vacant location on the Grid, or in the same 
> location as another Big Rock.  Once a Big Rock is placed, no other object 
> -- Players, Things, etc. -- can occupy that Grid location.  If a Big Rock 
> is placed in the same location as another Big Rock, both Big Rocks are 
> destroyed and the location becomes vacant.
>
> A Big Rock cannot be placed in a vacant location on the Grid if the number 
> of vacant locations is less than two.
>
> If the calculated cost for the Big Rock is more points than the purchasing 
> Player has, e loses all eir points and the Big Rock is not purchased.