Lancaster Housing plus Oddball Environment

2 posts ยท Feb 20 2002 to Feb 20 2002

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."

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:21:18 -0500

Subject: RE: Lancaster Housing plus Oddball Environment

Oddball Environment:
> 1) Fragments may continue a long distance, but

I think closer to square, since you're not too concerned about fragments that
head up or down.

> certain fun. "Clone Lase-R-LYT-2, report to the

By an amazing fluke, the random letters you picked for your example are almost
identical to my license plate. Fortunately, I'm not paranoid.