Re: [spoon-discuss] Rules on the Grid

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

> From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 3/27/03 at 8:19 PM Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > Okay, next issue: Rules on the Grid
> >
> > I don't think every rule should be on the grid (do we even have enough
> > squares?). But some rules, I think, would be very interesting on the
> > Grid. Certainly Rule 10, for all the argument it's caused, would be an
> > excellent Rule to have a war over.
> >
> > Both this and the idea of Rules as living things would, IMHO, be ideal
> > uses for the Level system - one Level could be reserved for Carryable
> > Rules, another for Living Rules, etc.
> >
> > Living Rules might better be implemented as a Subgame, though (perhaps
> > if INH ever got going again?)
>
> I would suggest that the grid be a separable subgame from the main 
> game...that it not be possible to actually destroy rules based on their 
> capture on the grid, but that possession or control of the rule's grid 
> presence give an extra vote to the controller.
>
> This might lend new powers to societies, which could have society 
> fortresses/strongholds that captured rules could be held in, so that 
> society props centered on rules in their control might get an extra vote as 
> well as the society's block vote.
>
> There should be a time limit, though...If a rule is held for too long it 
> should be allowed to escape and flee to a random location, and a given 
> entity (player or society) should only be allowed to control so many rules 
> at a time.
>
> In addition, perhaps a rule isn't exactly *on* the grid as much as it has 
> an avatar presence on the grid...and said avatar can be destroyed.  Keep a 
> live rule avatar too long, or too long without proper care, and it can 
> "die"...possibly to be reborn on the grid later, but regardless the rule 
> itself remains.
>
> 						Glotmorf

I like it.

Orc in a Spacesuit

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