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GWG lets put this simply shall we.Artillery doesn't "fuck up massively" on any one, or on sixes. piecewise explained how it happened. Didn't you see that? Screwups like the ones we saw were a one in eighteen chance!
The artillery has six chances to either fuck up massively by rolling a 1 or cause side effects by rolling a 6, it then rolls for the severity if these actions but the chance of occurance remains 1 in 3 for each shot fired.
I was arguing that whoever spotted for, or even ordered, the artillery shots was not as responsible for the destruction it caused as Auron would be for any damage the Thundertron caused, because the artillery's friendly fire had a much lower chance of happening.What is the argument then? It seems that you are arguing that the robot is more dangerous to team members than the artillery, using statistics, and UP is arguing that the artillery has caused more problems than the robot, using what has happened in the mission thread. Seems like an argument about danger to me.Yet it is completely relevant to the point we are making, which is that the artillery is in fact more dangerous than the thundertron.Which is not only false, but also not what the argument was ever about.
Alternatively, you could construct your ion probe entirely out of batteries, and provide only minimal power generation facilities. You'll just have to operate it in very short bursts.More practical would be a nuclear reactor or several.
Now, I need a creative name for it.Mycroft.
The stubby engines are only good in vacuum.They were only intended to be used in vacuum. None of my rockets work out as intended, it seems...
Get Flight Control ASAP. Find a way!Indeed.
OKAY.I don't really have time for either at the moment.
So, GWG, I can add you to the official one, or you can just splurge upon the wikiflowchart.
Yet it is completely relevant to the point we are making, which is that the artillery is in fact more dangerous than the thundertron.Which is not only false, but also not what the argument was ever about.
Also there are six lots of artillery with chances to critfail or overshoot every turn compared to a single thundertrons chance to overshoot only, that kinda makes me expect the artillery to be more dangerous even on paper.Except that
Go back and actually read my post, i never said overshoots cant hurt teammates.Right. Because there won't be any friendly people in the line of fire. When you're aiming at people all of us want to kill, wielding some of the longest-range weapons in the group, and in a vehicle which (like damn near every combat vehicle known to man) would fall at close range to the enemy without others at closer range. And because that's the only metric of causing harm to Hephaestus.
I said that it will only hurt teammeates between you and the target or around the target area, oh and half the time overshots just come out as holding the trigger down until you run out of ammo, overheating the weapon or killing the target you tried wounding.
Overshots are not guaranteed to be dangerous and often they are merely detrimental or an excessive application of force.
That would be cool, but highly impractical if the enemy carries around lightning rods or Faraday cages (and what sane man wouldn't really?)One who didn't see it coming, of course.
Also, Marie let herself be abducted. She's been back for ages.Hardly relevant!
Elf, I dare say that if you "close" this game game and start a new, smaller one while erasing the plot cue, you may find that you sorta lack that authority.Well, he does have the authority to close the threads, forcing us to make new ones and copy all our stuff over there. Without being able to quote/modify anything.
I am not sure whyHell if I know.
So seriously both of you, Elf, Twi, stop being so upset. Despite your complaints, everything is running just fine. All we need to do is get the plot queue into proper order and everything will resume nicely.Probably.
Actually, I kinda do have the authority, Akroma. Where is yours to tell me that I cannot shut down my game, precisely? However blunt and irritated that sounds, the point is that you do NOT have the authority to tell me where I stand. I may not exercise my right, but I am STILL GM.I think Akroma's saying that even if you killed the game, people would still want to play it. And you really can't stop that.
...and most of the world lore probably belongs to Rag...Hey, I put in a good amount of work for demon and dragon lore! And the governments' reaction to magic!
I don't want Einsteinan roulette.Indeed. Remember what happened to "Twilight Academy, but with superheroes and less seriousness"?
I want this.
What I'm doing at this instant.You made it an actual flowchart.
I'll add USEC to the editor list soon.
Sounds like good--Quote from: PrivateNomads DesktopIt hurts to live, please kill meDude, all these folders. Just, put them all into a few sorting folders and then put them in your library (the folder button right next to the start button)
then grab all those text files and put them into a bay12 folder of some sort
gwg: 1. got your sheet?1. Yes! Just not on me. It's in a different room, on a different floor. I'll try to remember to start copying it over next time I've charged it up.
2. you in the APC?
Wasn't sure where this plot came from anyway, hence the question mark.It came from "No one's running a plot. Anyone mind if I run a plot? Guys? ...Okay, dragon time."
How about we just run a few plots that that have some degree of compatibility simultaneously and have them interfere with each other? I don't think a conspiracy to abduct and research magic users would cause too much issues when being run with something inside the bracelet system and some sort of incident with dragons.Especially since the dragon situation is currently stable. Really, the next step would presumably be one that could be initiated any old time people want.
Wait, didn't @Projeck's plot already begin seeing as Jason got kidnapped and later, Marie got abducted (and probably will again, though subsequent times will probably involve her forcing the other party to abduct her)?Huh?
...unless they start grabbing and shoving dragons into windowless vans...Sounds amusing. If anyone wants to draw up some stats for dragons (or use what I've already drawn up), go ahead and include that.
Isn't this a it of an overreaction to something that can be rectified easily?Yup.
relevant
...though with how often folks pull out guns to solve disagreements in the US – legally! – now, I’d argue it’s not so safe here, either.Unless the author comes from one of the worse areas of Detroit or Gary or something and routinely provoked armed criminals, that's BS. I'm not sure how that could be considered relevant to anything if such a blatant lie is present in the third sentence.
You can blame him for literally forgetting about a perfectly finished plot for months on end and even when he has time nonetheless being lazy as fuck and devoting the bare minimum of effort to actually doing his job. Or rather, not doing his job. Most of the time he doesn't do his job until heads start rolling.Indeed.
That is why he did that. IT's because he at least recognizes that he could never be bothered to run anything.
it's not his job, he is giving us free entertainment for little reward.Indeed. However, if he's not interested in GMing, perhaps the position should be given to someone else who is?
Also, if I was the GM I doubt that I would do much more than what Elf is doing right now, besides keep the plots in order and poke people to run theirs on time.Eh. More than Elf seems to be doing.
does it really matter? Cut Elf some slack here, it doesn't matter if there are people who could *potentialy* do better than him. Point is, he is the one doing it...Doing what, exactly? He wears the crown, but doesn't...um...negotiate the trade deals? That analogy fell apart fast.
