Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] DimShip redo

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/23/02 at 5:46 PM Rob Speer wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:03:06PM -0400, Glotmorf wrote:
>> A.2. Virtual Dimensions
>>
>> A Player's virtual dimensions are the values of eir real dimensions,
>plus the buoyancy and minus the ballast of whatever DimShip e is currently
>occupying at the time.  A virtual dimension cannot differ from the
>corresponding real dimension by more than |100|.
>
>The absolute value of 100 is always 100. You seem to have the absolute
>value
>function in the wrong place. Or you could say "more than 100 or less
>than -100".

Yeah, yeah.  That looked wrong at 3 am too.  "|<real dimension> - <virtual dimension>| <= 100"?

>> A DimShip moves to a new dimensional location by setting its buoyancy
>and ballast.  Players occupying a DimShip are not considered to be at the
>DimShip's dimensional location.
>
>Hmm? *Not* considered to be at the DimShip's dimensional location? I
>think that this would be a nice reform, making DimShip moves only
>relevant to stuff like combat and Realms and not affecting the player's
>status. But the rest of the rule seems to say that this isn't the case.
>So what does this part mean?

Trying to divorce the definition and nature of DimShips from anything conventionally regarded as physics.  I could come up with some scifi technobabble -- in fact, I already had, along the lines of a pan-dimensional anchor line -- but I just wanted to say that while a ship theoretically has to be somewhere, and while the ship is having an effect on the nature of the player who stepped into it when it wasn't going anywhere, the ship's location isn't necessarily the player's location.  Otherwise one could perhaps make the case that one gets into the ship, the ship moves, the player steps out, and lo! he is where the ship is, rather than where he really is.

*sigh* I'll work on it.  I've got, what, two ndays?

>I don't think I'm going to vote for the return of DimShips, at least not
>in this form. They've had their day. Now we're getting suggestions for
>new attributes like Luck that *should* be Dimensions, but the rule can't
>call them that lest DimShips wreak havoc on them. (Random observation:
>"lest" is a fun conjunction to use.)

It's not a conjunction.  It's an archaic language component.

						Glotmorf


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