Re: spoon-discuss: DimShips do.... what exactly?

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 4/19/02 at 4:04 PM Eric Gerlach wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Wonko wrote:
>>> Quoth Eric Gerlach,
>>> 
>>>> Is it just me.... or are DimShips currently just a fun way to lighten
>> your
>>>> wallet by 100 points?
>>>> 
>>>> ...Wow, just like real boats... a hole you throw money into...
>>>> 
>>>> Bean
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Um... You can move in dimensions... That's helpful...
>> 
>> It doesn't seem to say that... It says it is *capable* of doing that at
>> several locations, but Rule 493 never specifies that your dimesions
>> change... not in any way I can interpret it anywho...
>> 
>> Bean
> 
> Your dimensions per se don't change, but, thanks to being in a DimShip with
> ballast and buoyancy set, you are displaced in dimspace, so that it's as if
> you're at a different dimensional location -- a virtual location, if you will.
> 
> Which means (a) if you use a dimship to spend points you don't have, your
> actual points might go negative, and your virtual points would decrease
> because they're just a displacement from your actual points; and (b) if your
> dimship gets shot full of holes your actual points apply.
> 
> Glotmorf

But one's actual points cannot go negative, so could not one spend points
you don't have using virtual points, then get those points back by disabling
the DimShips points?

-- 
Wonko