Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: DimShip rewrite

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:49 pm, Glotmorf wrote:
> On 6/5/02 at 4:01 PM Wonko the Sane wrote:
> >>If a player owns a DimShip and has launched it, then rules other than
> >
> >this
> >
> >>one that check eir dimension values will check the values of eir virtual
> >>dimensions. Rules that change the values of dimensions, though, will
> >
> >change
> >
> >>eir real dimensions.
> >
> >I'm still a little leery of two things - 'check' and 'virtual'. I'm still
> >not convinced that the virtual things work, and it's not always clear
> >whether or not a rule is actually 'checking' something or not. Besides,
> >why
> >distinguish between checking and setting? I'd suggest something like this:
> >
> >"If a player owns an Active DimShip, then eir dimensions shall be treated
> >as
> >if they were equal to the sum of eir actual dimensions and the virtual
> >dimensions contained by the Active DimShip. The previous sentence does not
> >apply to this rule."
>
> I'm trying to prevent deficit spending.  Unless you want to design a credit
> system, there might be a problem with:
>
> buy a DimShip
> set the DimShip's buoyancy to 100 score
> buy another DimShip
>
> Were it not for the single-occupancy provision I stuck in another
> paragraph, this could spiral down to negative infinity on real score.  As
> it is, it allows someone to spend 100 points e doesn't have.

Actually, if the real points dimension os set to 0, and virtural is 100, they 
can spend 100, and have their real dim remain at 0! See the rule defining 
score for details.