I am working on this rule.

Anything I need to be sure to cover?

Basically you get sucked into the hole and pop up somewhere else.

ESG, seekers, firecontrol disruption, and what else?

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 12:02 am: Edit

Michael
Reference Yellow Submarine - this is the sea of holes!

regards
Stacy

By Michael C. Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 01:57 am: Edit

Not that I admit to a youth full of seeing such movies, but yeah, like that.

Wizards, Yellow Submarine and Rocky Horror Picture Show...

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 02:11 am: Edit

Add Blue Meanies to the zone
regards
Stacy

By George Duffy (Sentinal) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 03:34 am: Edit

How about adding some giant space moles that pop out of holes randomly, where nearby ships can fire on them, earning extra bpv points to add to the total at the end of the game.

(Runs for cover as the "Heat-Seeking, Remote-Guided, #8 Griswald" flys by on a seek-and-destroy mission)

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 08:26 am: Edit

Moles are good. Make them voles and you'll have my vote.

By Michael C. Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 09:15 am: Edit

Draft submitted to SVC last nite.

But I am still working on it of course.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 12:49 pm: Edit

Mike's got a hole in his pocket!
regards
Stacy

By Michael C. Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 02:20 pm: Edit

goofs

By Michael C. Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 02:35 pm: Edit

Actually, when I think of the dynamic in combat these things would be very amusing to use.

Lyran coming for an overrun? Pop into a hole and appear over yonder.

5 enveloped R torps about to smack your frigate? Hit the hole!

Half the issue would be the problem that you DON'T know which other hole a given entrance leads to in advance. I gots some rules to make them a mystery at first entry.

I love terrain! I was thinking a gas giant with several close in moons and Prairie Dog space would be a great place to have a frigate squadron melee...

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 03:37 pm: Edit

The space voles are the ones that make the holes in the first place...

Later, the Feds developed technology to combat space voles. The Photon Augmented Under Limit Torpedo.


The deadly Vole P.A.U.L.T !

regards
Stacy

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 05:02 pm: Edit

Stacy,

that's a heck of a way to get the Griswald #8 launched.

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 05:30 pm: Edit

Loren

It's a vole new ballgame
regards
Stacy

By Sean O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 07:39 pm: Edit

The SJ Games game Globbo had a similar thing on their map. Five holes on the map, you roll a die to see which hole you come out of. Roll the same number as the hole you're on, nothing happens. Roll a six, you're sucked into oblivion.

As far as effects go, it should probably have an effect exactly the same as being hit by an Andromedan displacement device, since that's pretty much the same thing.

I can't see anything like this happening in the "real universe" but it seems like something the Masters would have fun with.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 10:13 am: Edit

Loren, that is beyond a Griswold. Please escort Stacy to the booth.

Load up that special tape we've been holding in reserve.

Roseanne Barr "'Broad-way' Dance to Get Fit." You remember the one? She sings, she dances!

In case that doesn't work, load up the underground video of John Wayne's greatest movies, with the Duke's roles played by Pee-wee Herman. (Yes, I know, but Stacy is a special case and may require harsh treatment!)

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 12:03 pm: Edit

Jean!
SVC has enshrined worse puns in the game!
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 12:31 pm: Edit

Stacy, SVC is the G.O.D. and you are but a lowly Tholian. Therein is the difference!

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 12:35 pm: Edit

I think you deserve half the time in the booth! You were an accessory before the fact by bringing voles into it! And this because of your specist bigotry against voles!
regards
Stacy

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 03:29 pm: Edit

Stacy, booth, now. If you want someone to join you, you get Mike -- after all, he's the one who started the topic!

But remember, that if you choose to share your booth, the time is doubled ...

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 10:27 pm: Edit

Oh wow... a waiting line for the agonizer booths.

Off hand, I don't think we've ever had that problem before.

(rummages in the pre-printed forms files...)

Ah! here it is! requistion for new agonizer booths!

(reads small print) Hummm, seems this form assumes that the existng number of Agonizer booths was assumed to be enough for any conceivable number of perpetrators... so the requisition only covers replacement of worn out and or vandalized systems.

I wonder if we need to pass this over to engineering? As I understand the concept, the booths were never intended for multiple victims/ errr.... I mean multiple users. Something about voiding the warrantee and the safety protocols.

Do you suppose that since its for Stacy we could apply for a waiver?

By Stacy Brian Bartley (Bartley) on Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 10:43 pm: Edit

That's a Vole Other Can Of Worms!
regards
Stacy

PS The home world of space voles is in a quantum singularity. So small you could have the vole world in your hands!

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 12:32 am: Edit

Ok, corralling all voles. Head off to my topic, please.

That includes all discussion of them.

Jean
WebMom

By Alan W. Kerr (Awkerr) on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 12:37 am: Edit

Mike Grafton wrote:
"I love terrain! I was thinking a gas giant with several close in moons and Prairie Dog space would be a great place to have a frigate squadron melee... "

and

Sean O'Carroll wrote:
"I can't see anything like this happening in the "real universe" but it seems like something the Masters would have fun with. "

Well, how's this for an evil idea...

Prairie Dog Space around a Black Hole! The "real universe" explanation is that the original star system was a double star. Both stars went nova and collapsed into black holes at about the same time (on an astronomical scale). The two black holes spun closer and closer and combined into one larger black hole. The Prairie Dog Space formed when the combining black holes shredded time-space into a state that was even stranger than "normal" black hole physics.

Setup:
Five numbered P.D. holes and the Black Hole is number six.
Enter a PD hole and you role 1D6. If you role the same number as the PD hole you are at, nothing happens. Any other number and you exit at that PD hole. Obviously a "6" will destroys the unit as if it had entered the Black Hole hex normally. Role a second die for the direction that you exit the other PD hole.

...evil enough???

By Jonathan Jordan (Arcturusv) on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 12:52 am: Edit

Add asteroids.

By John Trauger (Vorlonagent) on Monday, November 16, 2009 - 01:51 pm: Edit

How do you keep seeking weapon races, esp plasma, competetive?