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This article is from the netrek
Frequently Offered Clever Suggestions list, by Tom Holub
doosh@best.com with numerous contributions by others.
10. Remove the kill restriction on plasma torps.
Problem: Requiring kills for plasmas is silly.
Proposal: Allow plasmas for one and all.
Why Not: While this is a trivial server change (quick alteration to
.sysdef), it's there for a reason, namely that having 8 battleships
with plasma torps makes taking planets impossible. LPSs would never
end. Chaos servers allowed infinite plasmas, and plasma-wars became
rather common. So did plasma- muggings (you can't shoot three incoming
plasmas!) The ping-pong plasmas made life interesting, but then
there's not much point in taking planets on a Chaos server anyway.
The way things are now, players with 2+ kills can be ogged, which
prevents them from firing more plasmas.
While it's true that the rich become richer (or perhaps the deadly
become more deadly), there's nothing wrong with elitism in
Netrek. It's just a game. Deal with it.
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