Re: UNITS & transport

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Then what is your proposed solution to units? Ie how would spells work
without them? A mage can just cast spells morning noon and night?

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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jevan Furmanski wrote:

> who started this thread anyway?  Why aren't we bickering about untis?
> Personally I think untis should be done away with all together, even to
> the last unti.  We just cant have this any more.
> 
> Jevan
> 
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Kris Ames wrote:
> 
> > Siphoning is also helped by the capillary effect.
> > 
> > ----------
> > > From: Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>
> > > To: kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu; zodo@laf.cioe.com
> > > Cc: gmlist@cioe.com
> > > Subject: Re: Untis & transport
> > > Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 5:10 PM
> > > 
> > > > exactly the ida behind a vacum pump is a big ass siphon.
> > > > Make some big ass bubble in the hose and vacum the bubble. It will
> > start
> > > > the water flow and same principle as a siphon it will keep flowing.
> > > 
> > > Am I daft? Siphoning works because liquid is constantly being pulled
> > from
> > > one end of the tube (first by the vacuum then by gravity). This creates
> > > a pressure differential and pulls more liquid into the hose. This works
> > > great as long as the liquid is at a higher elevation than the eventual
> > > destination.
> > > 
> > > Pumping water out of an ocean for your town won't work though unless
> > your
> > > town is below sea level?
> > > 
> > > > Aside from the invasion aspect of a portal between Galiea and the
> > other
> > > > side is the GM stand point. Galiea is different for a reason. If you
> > open
> > > > up a portal between the two then everyone is jumping from one side to
> > the
> > > > other on a whim.
> > > > 	After a while the settings would just start to look exactly alike.
> > > 
> > > Exactly why settings should really be in seperate universes entirely.
> > They
> > > aren't for a lot of reasons primarily that no one seemed willing to
> > > totally abandoned the other settings and wanted to be able to move
> > their
> > > adventurers between them. Silly reason in reality but thats the way it
> > > stands.
> > > 
> > > 						-Steve
> > 
> 
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