Re: [GZG] Opening a can of worms - for fun. (was: Re: Cinematic Vs Vector for Dummies Re: Running Full Thrust at a con?

>I don't think there is anything wrong with measuring - certainly in 
>high tech genres it makes sense. I think it's a game mechanic to 
>achieve a couple things: 1) keep the game "gamey", it adds some kind 
>of skill aspect to it 2) keeps things moving (you know someone will 
>want to premeaasure every relationship on the table every turn) 3) 
>so much future gaming is actually based on the past where accurate 
>measurement was not broadly and quickly available. I'm sure there 
>are lots of other excu... er, reasons. There are games that allow 
>pre-measure. I've read them but never played them.
>
>Might be an interestnig SG/FMA action - spend an action to know the 
>range of everything in your field of fire. Another choice other than 
>aim.

I've actually written this up in some FMAS notes a while back - if 
you want to measure a distance or range, you have to spend an 
"observe" action by the figure you are measuring from in order to do 
so......  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

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>Martin
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>From: <mailto:indy.kochte@gmail.com>Indy
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>Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:22 PM
>Subject: [GZG] Opening a can of worms - for fun. (was: Re: Cinematic 
>Vs Vector for Dummies Re: Running Full Thrust at a con?
>
>Given the latest chattyness of the list, and some of the topics (and 
>subtopics) brought forth, and my being frustrated after a 
><mailto:long-@$$>long-@$$ day of fighting with a seriously ornery 
>simulator, I thought I'd just drop a little ortillery into a beehive.
>
>On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Doug Evans 
><<mailto:devans@nebraska.edu>devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:
>
>[...]
>Let them measure.[...]
>
>
>So, what is it about all the anti-measuring noise, anyway? I mean, 
>why deny measuring? This isn't Ancients, after all...
>
>(oooh, did I just say that out loud?)
>
>:-D
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>Mk
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