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To make the game balanced. Realism has to look away at times in order to make the game manageable and fair.

Alternate possibility: Make ordering take as long, but travel take longer.
Which may require dividing the turns up smaller.

Still, it's clearly sentient. What kind of person would create intelligent life that has to go to its own personal hell four times a day?

It's like I have an echo...

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 16, 2014, 08:51:20 am

What do the Action Points represent?

Exactly what they do IRL- time (or to put it in a more sesquipedalian way: "management resource") Although you are never in danger, you represent the singular leader of an expedition, who spends a lot of time figuring out how all the intel reports fit together, coming up with what to do and explaining to your subordinates how they should do it. Not to mention paperwork to send back home. This is abstracted as AP.

Why is it harder to order people across a mountain than a plain? Especially if this is supposed to be an RTS simulator?

I'll start at 5, 15.

Especially since we're not actually sure Haria exists.

A few problems with the design:

1. Shoot it in the head with a BFG and it becomes a mindless potato.
2. If it's knocked over, how is it going to get up?
3. Power. What's it powered by? Magfields can only get you so far before your batteries are drained.
4. It has too much firepower for its suggested usage (think russian tanks with like 20 guns). You'd need to cart along extra ammo, reducing speed and stuff we can move. Considering we spend most of our time either running or stealing, I'd remove some of the weapons and replace them with storage canisters, for carting samples on research missions and stolen goodies on assault missions.
5. Is the production cost worth it? Why not get a bunch of Sods to haul our crap instead or bring a pneumatic exo?
6. How easily replaceable are blown off legs?

Otherwise, nice. As long as the bastards don't act like anything remotely involving MLP.

1. ...No, it won't. The head has one of the auxiliary CPUs that helps with firing. The remaining weapons on the head would be made less accurate, but that's about it.
2. Same way a horse does.
3. Read the description again.
4. Damn near all of its weapons are energy weapons.
5. Because horses are more efficient at carrying stuff. And sods don't have medifoam, multi-targeting, or other such perks.
6. About as easy as they would be for robodies.

Quote from: Unholy_Pariah on February 17, 2014, 05:58:53 am

although i still say he shoulda made a tricerabot.

WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THIS EARLIER

Because it's silly. And not suited for a support unit--legs too short, body too bulky.
Maybe a tank-like Ar-Prime?

Go berserk and attempt to crush his puny wall!

((You'd better not crush me.))

"I? M'Ber. I'd like to know what part you play in all of this."
Draw my dagger.

As fantastic as Loli is to some, I'm going to have to say no xD

You have my approval.
The only lo-lih-con here is Kyle.

Quote from: Atnegam on February 17, 2014, 01:48:44 am

Google is your friend, but so am I so I'll just tell you.

Loli is basically sexually attractive little girls.

And Kyle is a lolicon. And apparently so is Alistair.

Is it still loli when you're a little boy?

too much loli in the thread

But it's all being mocked, so it's okay.

DFC =/= loli

What is DFC, anyways?

new line of conversation, NeferisXSaber beastiality ship

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((back, what did I miss?))

Some Aussie nutjob managed to drop a tree branch on wolfchild's power line while driving past.

"You like calm, relaxing things, right? A google search suggested we could go and climb the nearby mountain, make a warm campfire, listen to the birds, take in the view, watch the sun go down and watch the stars in an attempt to find patterns that resemble animals. Would you like to do that?"

Getting better.