From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:18:27 -0500
Subject: Lancaster Housing plus Oddball Environment
Lancaster Housing: Someone had the idea right, but the details wrong. Gropos get the beds because they "take and hold land". The vacc heads only get to keep the spaces the gropos don't really want. Especially if they can't call for Ortillery because they want to own the territory being fought over. Oddball Environment: 1) Fragments may continue a long distance, but density will fall off with the cube of distance from blast (I think, at the very least by the square). So the lethality may not be much greater. 2) Assume: - all weapons calibrated and designed for environment (and the troops are well trained in various environment types) - armour is self-sealing with build in injection of drugs, limited reestablishment of pressure, and even provision of some basic fluids. - missile launcher will be a zero-G 'soft-launch' variety with some sort of control jets - based on FMAS conjectural mechanics, any weapon could (on a rare day) be dangerous to PA so a grenade _might_ penetrate (maybe) 3) Terrain ideas have given me some good thoughts. Thanks! 4) Plasma gun and lasers would have effectively cross-board ranges. Even gauss weapons, with recalibrated sighting systems, would probably fit in this category. 5) The idea of a Paranoia FMAS is almost too good. Like the idea of doing "Deathmatch" style first-person-shooter in FMAS. Both have a certain fun. "Clone Lase-R-LYT-2, report to the battlefield.... Lase-R-LYT-1 seems to have suffered an unfortunate accident while attempting to operate developmental technology."