Thursday, November 27, 2014

Proposal: I Heard You Like Thrusters

Times out and passes 6-0.  +2 Fuel. -Bucky

Adminned at 01 Dec 2014 02:30:42 UTC

Add a new subrule to the rule “Local Maneuvring”, called “Orbital Dockyards”:-

An Orbital Dockyard is a type of Structure. If a Shuttle’s Orbit contains an Orbital Dockyard, that Shuttle may spend 1 tonne of any Substance to replace one of their own XDICEY Thrusters with an ADICEB Thruster, where “A” and “B” are positive integers whose sum is equal to “X” plus “Y”.

After “and a maximum value of at most 12.” in rule “Local Maneuvring”, add:-

A DICEX Thruster may also be considered to be a 1DICEX Thruster.

Select a random Orbit on Ganymede that contains no Structures, and a random Orbit on Europa that contains no Structures, and add an Orbital Dockyard to each of those Orbits.

Comments

Sylphrena:

27-11-2014 23:45:10 UTC

for although we should probably eventually also make ways of gaining additional thrusters as well.

Bucky:

28-11-2014 00:43:52 UTC

I think this is significantly imbalanced.  A 3DICE3 thruster is much better than a 1DICE5 thruster. 

That said, the cost may well be high enough to make it merely smart play instead of abuse.

Sprucial:

28-11-2014 03:16:54 UTC

for

Bucky:

28-11-2014 05:11:11 UTC

for

Teninten:

29-11-2014 04:59:46 UTC

for

Doctor29:

29-11-2014 10:42:34 UTC

for