Re: [spoon-discuss] Fwd: RE: [Thermo] Proposals File

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

> > > > -"So fix it" is answer one. Answer two is that, in my mind, an army of 
> > > > faeries has always been a couple thousand (they're really small), elves 
> > > > number about two, three hundred, ogres number about twenty, and the Borg 
> > > > are one. Well, one mind. Hundreds of bodies.-
> > >
> > > And three hundred elves can fit in a space that, if I'm in it, can't even 
> > > fit two elves?
> > >
> > > To "fix it", as you say, could be done in a couple of ways, none of which 
> > > are entirely agreeable:
> > > 1) Repeal armies. In general, I dislike repealing things until we're 
> > > certain nobody uses them anymore.
> > > 2) Move armies to a separate grid. This would require a new Ministry, 
> > > which would probably land on Dave, who wouldn't want to deal with it. So 
> > > this would get vetoed.
> >
> > -I meant fix the other thing. Let players occupy the same space. It's been 
> > proposed a couple of times. Third time's the charm! Seriously, it is 
> > ridiculous. A player needing all the space in an Elbonian Airways to 
> > themselves? Not right.-
>
> But that doesn't change the fact that the Grid is scaled differently. We 
> have things like Balls of Wax, Big Sticks, Speeders, etc. all of which are 
> based on the player-sized squares. Even if I can stand next to you, that 
> doesn't mean the squares are bigger. And there's not a lot of space at an 
> Elbonian Airway - it's just a slingshot in the mud (and maybe a Pig or 
> two).
>
> Perhaps it's just my mental image, but I always pictured the grid as being 
> not all that much larger than it appears on Orc's renderings of it, maybe a 
> hundred feet to the side of a square, at most; to fit armies into it 
> requires rescaling by a factor of around a hundred, maybe more if you 
> really want to fit a thousand faeries in. Many things would cease to make 
> sense at all - can I really run 3000 miles in a day (That's 128 mph)? And 
> how can I hit you with a Big Stick when you're so far away?
>
> Armies, as they are, just don't fit in.

-Then go with us being huge, or scale them down in your mind - maybe it's 
only a platoon of faeries, a squad of elves, two Ogres. Whatever. Or imagine 
everything as pieces on a game board, and we, the demigoddic Players, 
hovering above, controlling it all.-

[[BvS]]

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