[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 34 BALLOT

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes. But an administrative fix is in order, I believe - the Baron changed 
> the /20 in the formula back to an /10 when e added the other /2. This would 
> render anti-air armies practically powerless.
-That was entirely intentional, Wonko. No fix is needed. Allow me to try to 
explain. That /10 (or /20) is attached to the phrase "(1d5 - 3)." (1 + (1d5 
- 3)/10) [as the formula reads] yields a result between .8 and 1.2, which 
puts some variation into the damage dealt to make things less predictable. 
If the 10 is replaced with a 20, then that whole phrase yields a number 
between .9 and 1.1, which changes the average damage none at all, but 
reduces the variation significantly. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to 
halve the damage those armies did against Speeders. So I did. Do you 
understand now?-

> > Proposal 1335/0: Fergot One... (M-Tek)
> Yes. But a proposal this short should have been a haiku.
>
> > Also: Remember to vote for Nomvivor! (Only two players are left On The
> > Island, so *everyone* can vote.)
> I vote the Baron off the Island. Sorry, Baron, but in the name of humor, I 
> must try to get Iain to get those 170 points. (or 150, if it gets processed 
> under next nweek's events)
-You're a sick bastard, Wonko. You know that, don't you?-
> Okay, here's that problem list I mentioned:
-And rebuttals for all of them. You made intelligent arguments, but only one 
looks at all like a problem, and that's very easily rectified whether or not 
this passes.-
> Dwarves: This essentially amounts to "Dwarves have double toughness" - the 
> current phrasing states that Dwarf Armies who Dig In lose movement for an 
> nweek but keep *2 toughness until they are no longer Dug In. You provide no 
> method for Digging them Out, but nobody would want to, because they can 
> still move after the first nweek, so the only noticeable effect is that now 
> they're tougher than anybody else.
-Noted. I might also want to take the dash off of the end of that. I'd ask 
people not to shelve this - I'll stick the fix onto another prop (no extra 
points), and that'll deal with it, since the problem doesn't come around for 
an nweek.-
> Elves: Say that the Elves may Snipe *enemy armies*. Not just "Snipe"; that 
> implies that they can do it whenever; then you have a reference to 'the 
> enemy Army', which may not actually exist.
-Trying to snipe a Big Rock wouldn't do you any good. Is this actually a 
problem? I'll attach a fix to the aforementioned other prop, to clear it up, 
but this is hardly dangerous. The most anyone could do is announce they're 
Sniping 8,000 times, in which case they get their Ass Kicked for spamming.-
> Faeries: Say that they can Hit and Run Armies *when they could attack 
> them*; nothing right now stops Faeries from Hitting and Running from enemy 
> Armies on the other side of the grid.
-You can't attack them unless you're next to them, and this says they're 
making a first attack.-
> Orcs: You changed... uh... whaddaya call that? Whether it's singular or 
> plural? There's some fancy word for it, but I don't remember what. Anyway, 
> you changed from many to one, and it's confusing.
-Um... okay, I think I found what you were talking about... you mean I refer 
to "Orc armies" as "it." That's grounds for an administrative rectification, 
if I read rule 255 correctly.-
> Blobs: "as though the Blob Army had Attacked them" is ambiguous; do you 
> mean, had it hit them once, or had it Attacked them and gone through with 
> the rest of the battle?
-I mean as though it hit them once. An Attack is defined as one hit: "When 
one Army attacks another, it lowers the other Army's Strength by ((1+ 
(1d5-3)/10)*Attacker's Power)/Defender's Toughness." There isn't any 
ambiguity here.-
> Droids: They can start Repairing or Quick Repairing while they're 
> Repairing. That's probably bad... given 10 ndays I could have a Droid Army 
> with arbitrarily high Strength.
-Except Strength can't go above 1. That doesn't change the first part of 
what you said, but it is worth noting before people panic. Also, once 
they're Repairing, is it even possible for them to start Repairing again? I 
don't think so. It's basically boolean. Either they are or they aren't, you 
can't stack the two on top. It's like... hmm, can't find anything that 
really fits in the context of the game. If I tell my Droids to Repair, then 
I tell them again, they never stop Repairing, but the 5 nday counter is 
reset, so if you tell them to start repairing every day, they'll never 
finish.-
> --
> Wonko
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