[Torg] Mixed Zones: A New Interpretation

[Travis James Hall]

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> James Knevitt
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> Subject: Re: [Torg] Mixed Zones: A New Interpretation
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, <travisjhall at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Sure they could -- they do it all the time, and yet Storm 
> > Knights still have a pretty good shot at uprooting a stelae 
> > regardless.

Which indicates that the PE a DD can exert upon a stelae isn't completely
overwhelming, and still leaves no reason for it to be greater when it's
someone else's stelae.

> I would run it as an invoked reality storm between the two 
> Darkness Devices, with a distance from the nearest bridge 
> being a factor for both attacker and defender.

Distance measured how? Actually distance, or number of zones? Because if
number of zones, remember that you are talking about jumping from one
network to another, so there aren't any actual zones between them.

Also, shouldn't the connected DD get a big advantage for having the stelae
in a network that is built for channelling PE? Even DDs can't normally
invoke reality storms at large distances. They can't even use their full
reality skill to defend any but the very closest stelae.

Not to mention the fact that having connected stelae is not all that
determines the nature of a zone. Producing a normal invader-reality dominant
or pure zone requires having a certain number of supporters for that reality
within the zone. The stelae network just bounds the area off from the
reality of the local cosm, to make reality changes possible. Perhaps a huge
enough expenditure of PE could shift the reality of a zone without
supporters, but it certainly doesn't sound like the sort of exercise that
would make a PE profit for a DD, especially if the resulting zone is mixed.

Also, you haven't addressed the issue of why the DDs want to create mixed
zones. As I said, they don't generate PE for the DDs. They do cost PE to
create and maintain. So, why?

I just don't think you've thought through all the implications of your idea.

> >	Now, you can change the base assumptions if you just 
> > want more mixed zones, but in that case, just justify it by 
> > saying "I want more mixed zones," not "Here's why the canon 
> > makes no sense."
> 
> Why not? It's not like there aren't other places where the 
> canon is totally incongruous with itself.

Maybe so, but that's still not reason to make up problems where they don't
exist. It's not that canon is sacred and beyond question, just that if
you're going to assert that there's a problem in need of fixing, you should
identify an actual problem.

Travis