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[NullAshton]

Strategia, brush Barry's teeth while you're in there, please

[Fyron]

Growltigger said:
This is a case in point, why do you keep on going for these mass destruction tactics? you obviously have no finesse... you dont just try and take out everything in one fell swoop, you do it in stages.....

Armaggeddon/Ragnarok etc - look at your history and legends, the end of the world is always done in stages, signs and portents leading up to the great event, not just one fell "here is a 10,000 kiloton dirty warhead which kills everything etc"

No fun your way, I think the rest of the patrons here prefer a bit of narrative causality and prosaic higelian dichotomies

This can not be stressed enough...

[NullAshton]

No more WMD. Gotcha. WMG are much funner, especially in handheld versions with sniper scopes.

[TurinTurambar]

Imperator Fyron said:
Growltigger said:
This is a case in point, why do you keep on going for these mass destruction tactics? you obviously have no finesse... you dont just try and take out everything in one fell swoop, you do it in stages.....

Armaggeddon/Ragnarok etc - look at your history and legends, the end of the world is always done in stages, signs and portents leading up to the great event, not just one fell "here is a 10,000 kiloton dirty warhead which kills everything etc"

No fun your way, I think the rest of the patrons here prefer a bit of narrative causality and prosaic higelian dichotomies

This can not be stressed enough...

I was really really trying with the two long RP posts.. but if only the kids are posting... well... whataya gonna do?

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img]Turin

[Fyron]

Turin, your efforts are commendable.

[NullAshton]

So we need to post infrequently with long posts?

[Fyron]

You need to post in the style of the Cantina. That is a small part of it...

[NullAshton]

And the style is?

[douglas]

NullAshton said:
And the style is?

I'm not sure I can state the entirety of it in words, or even that I understand it fully myself, but here are a few ground rules that seem pretty solid:

1. No superweapons. Arbitrarily declaring victory is a big no-no here.
2. No mass cloning, invulnerability devices, or other "trump" technologies or powers that make you impossible to beat. Unless, of course, there is a clear, finite, and reasonably low limit to it (I believe somewhere back in the archives is someone who had four clones, each controlled by an AI from one of the SE games from 2-5, with the SEV one being permanently locked away for fear of the devastation it would cause), or you can make it consistently funny, or possibly if it is a direct counter to someone using a superweapon on you. Using such devices may be marginally acceptable if it's clearly an attempt to establish that you're sitting on the sidelines in a coming fight.
3. Above all, be creative and make it funny. Repeatedly bringing in large fleets (or ridiculously large single ships) and blasting away went out of style LOOOOOOOOOOONG ago.
4. Low tech is good.

[Suicide Junkie]

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