Re: [NetEpic ML] Big Fat Jerk

From: Jim Barr <jimebarr_at_...>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:15:50 -0000

--- In netepic_at_egroups.com, Warprat <warprat_at_j...> wrote:
> Hi Jim!
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to be a Big Fat Jerk! I'm getting tired and
> cranky. What exactly do you mean?
>

? No apologies needed - we're here to hash it out, after all. The
intent is to allow some chance of survival and therefore make
transports more useful in later stages of the game.

Jim
 
>
> Warprat ;)
>
>
>
>
> Warprat wrote:
>
> > Is your intent, to represent vehicles getting hit in the tracks,
or
> > immobilized, without killing the troops? Or, is it simply to
save your
> > troops, no matter WHAT hits the vehicle? Excepting huge weapons,
for
> > which you could not POSSIBLY argue any survival?
> >
> > The vast majority of weapons, don't even have a modifier. What
are you
> > complaining about? This is a GOOD deal!!
>
>
>
> > Jim Barr wrote:
>
> I thought about mods for the
> > > heavier weapons, but most of what's gonna kill a transport is
going to
> > > have a -1 or -2 mod anyways. I can easily see the volcano
cannon, etc
> > > being unsaveable against, say, anything with a -3 or better
save mod,
> > > and any "instant death" effects like vortexes (vortices?
Elvii?), being
> > > crushed by deathrollers, hit w/drop pods, SAGuns on a direct
hit, etc
> > > should wipe out the troops too.
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 12:15:50 UTC