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Message no. 1
From: Angelkiller 404 angelkiller404@**********.com
Subject: Adjustable settings on wired reflexes?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:09:11 -0400
OK, hypothetical situation.

Street sam gets wired reflexes-3 with the trigger. Unfortunately,
he's easily faster than everyone else and inadvertently destroys game
balance. The player wants balance, but doesn't want to get rid of his
wires, so he reasons that if the reflex trigger can turn off his
wires, they can also be used to adjust the settings in a reflexes-0
(off), wired reflexes-1, wired reflexes-2, wired reflexes-3 sort of
fashion.

Is this plausible?

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Message no. 2
From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: Adjustable settings on wired reflexes?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
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At 08:09 PM 8/14/99 -0400, Angelkiller 404 wrote:
:OK, hypothetical situation.
:
:Street sam gets wired reflexes-3 with the trigger. Unfortunately,
:he's easily faster than everyone else and inadvertently destroys
:game balance. The player wants balance, but doesn't want to get
:rid of his wires, so he reasons that if the reflex trigger can turn
:off his wires, they can also be used to adjust the settings in a
:reflexes-0 (off), wired reflexes-1, wired reflexes-2, wired
:reflexes-3 sort of fashion.
:
:Is this plausible?

So, what you want is a set of wired reflexes with a dimmer switch?

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Message no. 3
From: Angelkiller 404 angelkiller404@**********.com
Subject: Adjustable settings on wired reflexes?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:14:52 -0400
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>At 08:09 PM 8/14/99 -0400, Angelkiller 404 wrote:
>:OK, hypothetical situation.
>:
>:Street sam gets wired reflexes-3 with the trigger. Unfortunately,
>:he's easily faster than everyone else and inadvertently destroys
>:game balance. The player wants balance, but doesn't want to get
>:rid of his wires, so he reasons that if the reflex trigger can turn
>:off his wires, they can also be used to adjust the settings in a
>:reflexes-0 (off), wired reflexes-1, wired reflexes-2, wired
>:reflexes-3 sort of fashion.
>:
>:Is this plausible?
>
>So, what you want is a set of wired reflexes with a dimmer switch?


Um, more or less...yeah. A dimmer switch on your wires, so useful for
a number of reasons...only one of which I can think of right now...

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cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just
comes in to work every day and has a job to do."
Message no. 4
From: Scott W iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject: Adjustable settings on wired reflexes?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:40:22 -0300
"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to runnerpaul@*****.com."
] :Street sam gets wired reflexes-3 with the trigger. Unfortunately,
] :he's easily faster than everyone else and inadvertently destroys
] :game balance. The player wants balance, but doesn't want to get
] :rid of his wires, so he reasons that if the reflex trigger can turn
] :off his wires, they can also be used to adjust the settings in a
] :reflexes-0 (off), wired reflexes-1, wired reflexes-2, wired
] :reflexes-3 sort of fashion.
] :
] :Is this plausible?
]
] So, what you want is a set of wired reflexes with a dimmer switch?

I don't see why not, but I'd rule that it would cost more essence,
maybe another 0.1 or 0.2. The main thing is, why wouldja want to do it?

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Message no. 5
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: Adjustable settings on wired reflexes?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 03:10:42 EDT
In a message dated 8/14/1999 7:22:49 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
angelkiller404@**********.com writes:

> Street sam gets wired reflexes-3 with the trigger. Unfortunately,
> he's easily faster than everyone else and inadvertently destroys game
> balance. The player wants balance, but doesn't want to get rid of his
> wires, so he reasons that if the reflex trigger can turn off his
> wires, they can also be used to adjust the settings in a reflexes-0
> (off), wired reflexes-1, wired reflexes-2, wired reflexes-3 sort of
> fashion.
>
> Is this plausible?

Explain how it might exist in a game mechanic and have it exist in a balanced
method, and sure, it would be plausible. What kind of cost(s) were you
looking at if you did it?

-K

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