Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Gnome / Econ recognizer

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 22 March 2003 09:59 pm, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> > > YES [[ How about, when a can of whoopass is cracked open near a power
> > > plant, there's a given probability of an entropic meltdown? ]]
> > > -Hmm, I like the way you think... however, I'm going to make up a bogus
> > > reason to /avoid/ entropic meltdowns... the release of that much
> > > entropy takes the power plant down to a monatomic mist or something
> > > like that, cutting off the reaction. However, what would you say to the
> > > idea of the destruction of a power plant, say, raising each player's
> > > entropy by 1 or something? There should be at least a little bleedoff,
> > > right?-
> >
> >How about a larger-then-normal explosion, and a random amount of entropy
> >increase for everyone, based on distance from the plant? If everyone's
> > near it (or some monoliths) we have a chain reaction. Also, power plants
> > should blow up if a monolith (or another plant) sends too much entropy
> > in, releasing
> >at least as much entropy as was sent in in the resulting explosion/entropy
> >spreading?
> >- --
> >bd
>
> -The thing to keep in mind is that there will be a lot of power plants. So
> a clever (read: destructive) player could set off a lot of plants in one
> strike to blow up the grid.

Think of them as nuclear reactors. 

> Now, me, I don't like Entropic meltdowns. They
> make things icky for a while. In fact, I like the idea of improvements
> surviving them, as said improvements are too expensive to have to keep
> rebuilding. Yes, I say this even though I stand to profit mightily from
> repurchasing of guns, because I also stand to spend a lot on those guns...-

Ah, give yourself a discount. Eventually, these improvements won't have to 
materialize magically from the ruleset, but actually be Build, with 
Construction Armies or somesuch...
- -- 
bd
Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.
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