The Back Room

[Earth]

Mmm, no harm no foul.

[Leiana]

Agreed. ^-^

 

 

I <3 Loadstones!

[Nexaduro]

I think you mean lodestones.

 

In other news: Woot, snowday! Now if only I were bodily sound enough to appreciate that.

[Earth]

If only this snow day made sense.. Good lord it's barely even snowing anymore.

[Leiana]

Loadstone, lodestone, either way you're loading onto a waypoint of your choice.

[The_Mather1]

You silly Americans and your snow days. Here we go to school even if the snow is waist-deep, while you act like it's going to break your legs and kill your family.

[Earth]

Uhm, Lei, I don't think I caught what you meant with that Lodestone comment. Lodestones are magnetic.. Nothing else as far's I know. Also, Mather, hush, we have had accidents (In my family at elast) with people dying from snow and ice car accidents. Now please, no more of that. Also, Why does Youtube take forever to upload half hour videos?

[Leiana]

Earth, in a different game I play, waypoint allow a player to travel to different places. For example, if I wanted to get from the starting town to the inner coilster of a monastery, I'd use the waypoints. Of course, like in runescape you need to find the waypoint before being able to use it.

 

Nex, what part of the US do you live in? It's currently raining by the bucketfuls where I live.

[Earth]

Lodestones have nothing to do with that then, in any game I've played. Although I do know what those are, thankee.

[archimage_a]

I do agree with Mather here...People trying to drive their non-snow safe cars, along non-snow safe roads, and not knowing how to is what causes the vast number of accidents in America and Britain. The snow itself only plays a very small part.

 

In Norway, and other countries where snow is fairly common, people look outside and go 'Hmmm, its snowing, and my car isn't snow safe(for some reason)...I had better walk.' and because their infrastructure is built to accomodate small peices of frozen water, they are able to go to school, work and what not without huge accidents.

 

Though, really, the number of Snow Days Nex has had, you would think that people in your area would just buy cars with tracks, or snow skies on...Or maybe even snow chains...That or walk more, but you know, would probably cause an outcry.

 

 

 

As to lodestones....Load Stones (cough)

Similarly:

Lode-stone and Weigh-Point

 

Then consider that lodestones are/were used in compasses.

 

All of which leads a person to conclude that someone, somewhere has thought 'I am so clever, I have thought of this amazing pun and will use it in my game.'

[archimage_a]

Hey, all

 

Thinking of running a Space Combat game.

You would be in charge of a fleet of ships, travelling in a convoy. (Aka 3 players controlling 3 fleets which make up the convoy)

 

There is a corridor of space which the convey needs to pass through, but the only support being given is one Command Battlecruiser which is under joint command.

 

If we get more than 3 players then the 4th player will control the Raider Fleet, which is one and half times the size of a normal fleet (But half the size of the combined fleet). If there are more than 5 players then the 6th is a second Raider Fleet.

And so on.

 

 

The fleets can contain Freighters, Warships and anything in between. These can be designed with a lot of latitude if people want it. Each ship costs a certain number of points, and even if your whole fleet is blown up/survives, the next time you get the same number of points.

However, freight that is delievered gives you research points.

Command Research increases the number of points you have, Ship Construction decreases the price of ships and the different modules, etc.

 

 

The focus of the game is combat, though there is no reason that people cannot do some roleplaying as well, for instance, if someone was a bit traitorous they might make a deal with the pirate fleet to attack someone else and thus not get harmed. Similarly, two players might work together with one carrying mostly frieghers and the other carrying mostly warships.

 

 

The game will be played on a grid and would be turn based.

 

If anyone has any ideas/wants to play let me know and I will start a new thread.

[Nexaduro]

Hey, all

 

Thinking of running a Space Combat game.

You would be in charge of a fleet of ships, travelling in a convoy. (Aka 3 players controlling 3 fleets which make up the convoy)

 

There is a corridor of space which the convey needs to pass through, but the only support being given is one Command Battlecruiser which is under joint command.

 

If we get more than 3 players then the 4th player will control the Raider Fleet, which is one and half times the size of a normal fleet (But half the size of the combined fleet). If there are more than 5 players then the 6th is a second Raider Fleet.

And so on.

 

 

The fleets can contain Freighters, Warships and anything in between. These can be designed with a lot of latitude if people want it. Each ship costs a certain number of points, and even if your whole fleet is blown up/survives, the next time you get the same number of points.

However, freight that is delievered gives you research points.

Command Research increases the number of points you have, Ship Construction decreases the price of ships and the different modules, etc.

 

 

The focus of the game is combat, though there is no reason that people cannot do some roleplaying as well, for instance, if someone was a bit traitorous they might make a deal with the pirate fleet to attack someone else and thus not get harmed. Similarly, two players might work together with one carrying mostly frieghers and the other carrying mostly warships.

 

 

The game will be played on a grid and would be turn based.

 

If anyone has any ideas/wants to play let me know and I will start a new thread.

Psionics :twss:

[Earth]

No more psionics. We've had enough of that.

 

EDIT: Archi, ilive on a hill that is a long ways away from my school, I can't walk and make it there on time unless I leave at 6 or something, which is when I get up. So mostly that last problem is an outcry because a lot of students would have to get uo at 4 in the morning to get ready and then walk the rest of the morning to school.

[Resistance]

Psionics would be fine if they were balanced. They were not balanced in the space v2 which resulted in my death.

[archimage_a]

Sufficing to say there are no plans to include Psionics.

[Jehosaphat]

Sufficing to say there are no plans to include Psionics.

What about Ficuses? :P

[archimage_a]

Fici have been religated to a less powerful varient. :thumbup:

[Resistance]

Are you still going to be running crossroads?

[archimage_a]

I can't see a reason not to [run it], unless the players want to abandon it.

[Earth]

Well I don't want to abandon it, although.. I may not be able to play this new game. Hrmm.

[Leiana]

I figured out how to make marshmallows out of melted marshmallows!

[The_Mather1]

Time for the longest weekend ever, no school until Wednesday. :thumbsup:

[archimage_a]

Huzzah. Only have 2 more lectures, and one seminar, then longerest weekend ever (Saturday to the 15th)

[Earth]

Hah, congrats, mates. Enjoy your weekends.

[Leiana]

Lucky >.<

 

[hide= Due to the following I have to cancel DE2 entirely:]

 

Lack of players/ player enthusiasm

School

My poor planning skills

Pre made plans

Siblings

Work

Training for a 5k run in January

Homework

And lack of reasonable time.

 

Sorry [/hide]