Message no. 1

From:	"Mark J. Steedman" <Mark@******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Serious Newyen (was Re: Cut off times )
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:42:02 +0000

Machine-gun Kelly writes

> I've seen some stats for the other characters in Tim's game. I've had and
> gotten characters retired long before they hit those levels. Once money
> doesn't matter to the character and they start taking jobs because it seems
> like a good idea is one thing, when they get powerful enough to take down a
> Western Dracoform (not a Great, but a dragon none the less) [My longest
> running character did this once]
I presume by this you mean one with suitable mods not just the base 8
points of armour which an AK and APDS will solve, assuming of course
that you get to see said dragon :), well before you are looking at
the inside of its throat anyway.

> I tend to subtly hint to the characters that
> it might be time for the character to quit risking his neck unless the job is
> extremely important.
Yes one does wonder at PC's doint highly dangerous runs for 50K when
they have accounts with millions in them but!

> It does tend to imbalance the game when characters start
> forming their own corporations (not a business, but an actual good size local
> corp) and use favors that they are owed to call in an air-strike to nape an
> Aztech compund.
> But that's just my 2 and I talk a lot....
>
Yes have seen some pretty serious corp building before, and then they
got the 1% in Ares and went really mad, started to get really grand
ideas about what they could do, end result they attracted some rather
unhealthy attention from the Triads and a certain Damian Knight :),
they were not very happy when those multi digit fortunes lost the
first couple of significant figures :)
Not very sensible at times but it was rather fun indicating to some
characters that i'd just shot up 15millions worth of kit becasue they
though the Azzies head to head was a clever move :)

Mark