Re: [spoon-discuss] Catastrophe

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Quoth Orc In A Spacesuit,
>
> > I've been trying to leave how everything is done in the game the same, 
> only
> > change the terminology, simplify, standarize, and close loopholes in my, 
> uh,
> > fixes.  However, I have an idea that should make things easier in 
> general I
> > wanted to bounce off you guys first.
> >
> > Instead of all the rules about "well, if this happens, this happens" 
> when
> > something goes wrong, like somebody ends up where a Big Rock is, how 
> about
> > we just say that when something goes wrong, they have a Catastrophe.  
> This
> > Catastrophe would be standardized for each class of Physical Objects - 
> for
> > players, it would entail something like Elbonia under certain 
> conditions,
> > and others a small point loss and bounce to Limbo.  For Gremlins, it's 
> go
> > into Hiding.  For some things, it would be immidiate random replacement
> > (cause it gets destroyed, and another is automatically created).  This 
> could
> > be tailored to the type of Region (ie Grid) the Object is in, so it'd be
> > different in the 3D one and the 2D one, if we end up getting 2.
> >
> > Any suggestions, comments, questions, rotten tomatoes?
>
> I was meaning to write a list of 'default destructors' for various Grid
> Objects. I've even got some handwritten crud somewhere for a bunch of
> things. I think that's more or less what your suggesting here; want me to
> try and find my notes?
>
> --
> Wonko

Sure.  I only have some things saying 'then X has a catastrophe' right now, 
and much is in my head.  Anything you have would help.

Orc In A Spacesuit

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