[Torg] Home Cosms

[Kansas Jim]

Steve Crow wrote:

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

Stelae zones always cost energy to maintain, it's more a question of
whether it drains enough energy to pay for itself or if the DD has to
provide the energy. After five years there's too few untransformed
people remaining within a dominant zone for it to pay for itself.

(That is according to the Transform Chart in the rulebook and p85 where
it says zones pay for themselves as long as more than 10% of the zone's
population is untransformed. OGP reinterpreted this as meaning that
dominant zones turn into pure zones and pure zones turn into exhausted
zones after five years. With the 10% rule a pure zone would become
exhausted in 12-18 months!)

As for what they gain or lose it's mostly going to be about maintaining
control over territory, protecting core areas of the realm (like the
bridgeheads), stuff like that. Since most invasions of regular cosms
are said to normally take a High Lord decades to accomplish it's likely
that in most invasions there's an ever-expanding region of exhausted
zones following behind the expansion of the realm into the victim
reality.

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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