Saturday, July 07, 2007

Proposal: Hot R on P on S action!

Self-killed.  Brendan

Adminned at 08 Jul 2007 11:44:41 UTC

Add the following three subrules to the rule called “Production”

Rocks:
A corporation may, at any time, reduce the count of eir rocks by 2*X to target another corporation with an attack strength of X. The scissors of that corporation are then reduced by attack strength of the attack. If the number of scissors held by the attacked corporation is less than strength of the attack, the attacked corporation loses all of eir scissors and (A-S) cash where A is the strength of attack and S is the number of scissors originally owned by the attack corporation.

The production rights for Rocks are in the public domain.
A corporation may not attack any of eir Subsidiary’s nor can a Subsidiary attack eir parent company.

Scissors
A corporation may, at any time, reduce the count of eir scissors by 2*X to target another corporation with an attack strength of X. The paper of that corporation are then reduced by attack strength of the attack. If the number of paper held by the attacked corporation is less than strength of the attack, the attacked corporation loses all of eir paper and (A-S) cash where A is the strength of attack and S is the number of paper originally owned by the attack corporation.

The production rights for Scissors are in the public domain.
A corporation may not attack any of eir Subsidiary’s nor can a Subsidiary attack eir parent company.

Paper
A corporation may, at any time, reduce the count of eir paper by 2*X to target another corporation with an attack strength of X. The rocks of that corporation are then reduced by attack strength of the attack. If the number of rocks held by the attacked corporation is less than strength of the attack, the attacked corporation loses all of eir rocks and (A-S) cash where A is the strength of attack and S is the number of rocks originally owned by the attack corporation.

The production rights for Paper are in the public domain.
A corporation may not attack any of eir Subsidiary’s nor can a Subsidiary attack eir parent company.

This might seem a little weak—but a couple of corporations could easily take out another corporation if it was anything stricter, and this leaves room for Daemons to make your attacks more powerful.

posted by Clucky at 07 Jul 2007 18:04:00 UTC Comments (4)

Comments

Brendan: he/him

07-07-2007 19:32:30 UTC

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  for

Hix:

07-07-2007 20:05:51 UTC

against I think this is too powerful a way to attack other Corporations’ Cash.  I’m confident that it wouldn’t take very long for the bigger Corporations to overwhelm those of us with low (in absolute value) credit limits.  Especially since the only way to get R, P, or S is via normal production….

Because of the way that the formulas for production work, adding new types of things to the list of Products mostly helps out the Corporations that have, say, more than 20 factories:  they have production points to burn!  Consider Brendan, for example, who is currently allocating 1600 out of 2755 production points to get 40 souls.  E probably wishes e didn’t have to pay 79 production points for that 40th soul (39 souls would have “only” cost 1521), but what else shoul e do with the points?  The only other thing worth spending the production points on is cash, which e did, in fact, do.  Let’s not give em the option of being able to cheaply stock up on RPS, just because e’s got nothing better to do with eir production, while most of the rest of us are forced to spend all of our points on the current selection of Products just to stay alive.

Also, potential bugs:

1)  In the Rocks rule, for example, there are two separate sentences that could reduce the victim’s scissor count, both of which seem to apply separately, when I’m sure you only intended for one or the other to apply on any given attack.

2)  When attacking with rocks, for example, specify that 2*X must not be greater than the attacking Corporation’s count of rocks (or use the Glossary-defined term “spend”).

Bucky:

07-07-2007 20:42:08 UTC

against .  This would produce a crippling overhead on any new Corporations.  With no production for anything but Factories and Offices, they can’t defend themselves against a $60M barrage (which, since they don’t get any R P or S to start with costs only 20 of each, or 1200 production, to a large Corporation.

Clucky: he/him

07-07-2007 21:54:36 UTC

That is why you only lose 1 for each unit which you are behind, and it takes 2 units for 1 unit of attack. In other words, it takes 120 units of production to block the $60M barrage. Even if split up between all three, that takes 5400 total production, or more than two days worth.

We need more things to produce. Its my understanding that these corporations are working under a capitalistic society. The powerful ones SHOULD be able to squeeze the life out of the weaklings. Even if it didn’t make sense from a dynastic standpoint(which it does), it would at least move the game along.

Hix raises some good bug reports, so i’ll have to self kill,  against

but I still like the mechanic.