[Torg] Home Cosms

[Travis James Hall]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com 
> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Steve Crow
> Sent: Monday, 13 July 2009 5:58 PM
> To: torgmail
> Subject: RE: [Torg] Home Cosms
> 
> 
> > > > > Also, as noted Pure zones cost a Darkness Device energy 
> > > > > to maintain only when they border on other realities.
> 
> Well, I didn't say it. If KJ is quoting me, that's why I said 
> someone else noted it...

That quote is from your message sent Sunday, 12 July 2009 3:56 PM.

Nobody else noted what you reference. You have gotten that idea from
misreading something that I did write. See my response sent Sunday, 12 July
2009 4:53 PM for details (plus my correction from a few hours later in which
I mention leaving out the word "not" in an critical sentence).

> But okay, so... pure zones after five years don't cost a DD 
> energy to maintain?

The stelae that maintain the artificial borders around a triangular,
stelae-bordered zone cost the DD PE to maintain. The zone itself does not
cost anything.

While the people and land in the bounded zone are still transforming, the DD
will gain PE by leaching it from that process. Once everything inside is
transformed, it won't gain energy from that any more. During an invasion,
this energy gain will be greater than the cost of maintaining the stelae.

When the time comes that there is too little gain to make a profit, when the
cost of maintaining the stelae network is greater than the PE gain from the
drain of the local cosm, the raid is over, pack up and go home.

> If the PZ after five years is drained and 
> gives the DD nothing, but it has to maintain the stelae, what 
> does it gain or lose?

It would lose PE, overall, if it had to maintain the stelae. However,
generally it doesn't have to maintain the stelae. After a raid is done, the
High Lord and Darkness Device will close the Maelstrom Bridge, shut down the
stelae network, and probably even retrieve many of the stelae for later use
in another raid. No stelae network means no cost.

And in the home cosm, there is no reason to construct a stelae network in
the first place. Again, no network means no cost.

Travis Hall