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From previous thread, RE: Static Blue
>>47061768
I'm really not familiar with any games that really handle hacking as a core game mechanic in an elegant or interesting way. I'm sure there must be but I lack much of a frame of reference.
Still, separating combat hacking and puzzle hacking is definitely a good idea.
>>47063040
The problem Im running into is every hacking system I think of is entirely independent of the rest of the system. So maybe I make it a simple mini game?
>>47063691
One though is to maybe construct hacking as another kind of combat. Your system is d20+dX vs TN, yes? On a hit you roll for damage.
You could conceivably do something similar for hacking. Your actions in the network are against specific defenses or for the purpose of achieving specific goals. If you succeed you inflict damage against the ICE or whatever is slowing you down, or you do direct "damage" to your target in the form of procuring information/access/whatever.
>The trifunctional hypothesis of prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society postulates a tripartite ideology ("idéologie tripartite") reflected in the existence of three classes or castes—priests, warriors, and commoners (farmers or tradesmen)—corresponding to the three functions of the sacral, the martial and the economic, respectively.
Dude. What if people who find themselves drawn to intellectually stimulating traditional games have ancestors who belonged to a priestly class, and people who gravitate towards sports have warrior ancestors?
>>47137406
Well, the problem there is it totally devalues the individual ("But mooom I dont wanna be a priest of Ishtar, I wanna wear fedoras and be awful!") AND their environment. (Take a jock's baby and leave him in a library and he won't instinctively start doing push-ups on the books) Plus you're going back so many generations that people probably have ancestors from all three of those general "castes" so it becomes a meaningless distinction.
>>47137406
If that's true you have a long line of ancestors who loved sucking dick.
>>47137406
>people who find themselves drawn to intellectually stimulating traditional games have ancestors who belonged to a priestly class
People who love strategy games with an implicit or explicit martial dimension probably have warrior blood in them.
Similarly, people who like flavour-of-the-month zombie board-games and the like probably have dirty commoner blood flowing through their veins.
Welcome back, to the fifteenth chapter of Mecha Space Pirate Quest!
As always, you are Admiral Roarke Susan Starwind of the Iron Kestrels space pirate fleet, master of the starship Rhinehawk, and pilot of the terrifyingly crit-prone Knuckle Kaiser.
Previous Threads: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Mecha+Space+Pirate+Quest%2C+Collective+Game%2C+mecha
Master Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/sSHs0QmF
Upgrade Menu: http://pastebin.com/QQQzkFZe
List of Moves: http://pastebin.com/HSdyCe2y
Rogues' Gallery: http://pastebin.com/E9ZcDLfG
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>>47140268
Lets make sure that the team we send to clean the colony keeps a couple green skulls alive so we can find out where they stashed the mech
A note on Bluegills. Yours, by the way, come from the Stone Soldiers, who programmed theirs to use several different weapons and armed them with the expanded thruster portfolio featured in the Bluegill Joe simgame, as a mark of their self-proclaimed elite status. UJCIDF Bluegills are slower, and almost always use a sword in place of the mace.
You may have noticed that Bluegills are both considerably sturdier and less expensive than Harpies, and might furthermore be wondering why pirates use Harpies at all. There are two main reasons.
First, the CP cost of a Harpy...
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I also mildly buffed the S-Betta's electric pilebunkers from 4K to 6K, because 4K no AP is pathetic and I like the S-Betta. It's a ridiculously expensive machine, even by SOUL standards, but incredibly hard to detect when cloaked.
>>47140316
Acknowledged, Miles and Richard know to interrogate a few of them to find out about the Tarrasque...but you can't ask them to actually spare them. Once they're done, anyone who's a Green Skull is getting a bullet to the brainpan.
