Re: [spoon-discuss] Future of the Grid

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

> From: "Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Okay...I was sort of against making the grid bigger before, but this 
> > > might necessitate it.  But if the grid does get bigger, I think Football 
> > > should be either scrapped or be situated on its own grid.  I still favor 
> > > multiple grids set up as dimensional planes or physical layers.
> > >
> > > How big a thing do we envision the grid becoming?
> > >
> > > 						Glotmorf
> >
> > I think that multiple "grids" is something that is good.  However, the way 
> > the ruleset is written now, it really can't be implemented easily.  
> > Another reason for that uber-prob of mine, which I've been going over 
> > recently, since it removes nearly every darn reference to "The Grid" or 
> > "Grid Locations" or whatever, instead creating universal, generic, 
> > Locations.  Locations which can have different Regions, like The Grid, The 
> > Alternate Grid, the Football Gridiron, The Risk Board, whatever.  I got so 
> > close to catching up, then we had that whole takeover business...  bah.
> >
> > I have been thinking the past few days about a prop, that as a part of it, 
> > would include an alternate Grid.  But the way the rules are now, unless we 
> > make a new "grid" extremly limited, we'll have to rewrite a huge portion 
> > of the rules to get everything to work correctly.
> >
> > I need to stop talking so much and get back to work on the thing.  And 
> > with all the recent changes, as well as the ones that are looking to come 
> > soon, I'm gonna have to rewrite half the thing again.
> >
> > Orc in a Spacesuit
> -Okay, here's a thought, Everyone think way back to a failed proposal some 
> time ago which attempted to tack three new 20x20 blocks onto the Grid, 
> declaring them the Empire Grid. While I admit now that trying to attach it 
> to the Grid was probably a bad idea, having another grid (named something 
> completely different) for thrashing each other on would be a good idea. The 
> rules of this new grid (well, rule, anyway) would be very different from 
> 301, and so it wouldn't make things all confusing. We could then blow up 
> the old Grid with impunity whenever someone won via it or points, provided 
> the new grid was left alone, and blow up the new grid whenever someone won 
> via conquest or the obliteration of lots of stuff. We could also have other 
> more specialized grids... like one for rules, even.
>
> If we don't do that, then let's blow the existing grid up to 40x40, make 
> the center 10x10 a no-fly, no-throw, no-shoot, totally specialized Football 
> zone, and beat the living daylights out of each other all across the other 
> 1500 squares.-
>
> [[BvS]]


*dreams of the ability to create a new, fully functional, Grid with two 
lines of text, then sighs at his massive, way-behind-schedule uber-prop*

Orc in a Spacesuit

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