PvP movement system for the first Civil War

**Zim** · 07-08-2009, 07:31

Have you had to use that system in WOTB? I'd be interested to hear how it turned out.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 07-08-2009, 07:51

Originally Posted by Zim

Have you had to use that system in WOTB? I'd be interested to hear how it turned out.

We just finished a PvP battle in WotB. Cultured Drizzt fan and mini made a surprise attack against The Celtic Viking. Although there was a big distance between those armies in the province (where battle was fought) I think it worked quite well.

**Zim** · 07-08-2009, 07:55

It's nice to hear that system has been tested at least once.

How exactly did it go? Were they both moving and you chose where they met? Or was one moving in the other's area? How did you choose where the battle was actually fought?

Don't mean to be nosy but I'm taking notes for when this happens in this game...

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 07-08-2009, 08:28

Originally Posted by Zim

It's nice to hear that system has been tested at least once.

How exactly did it go? Were they both moving and you chose where they met? Or was one moving in the other's area? How did you choose where the battle was actually fought?

Don't mean to be nosy but I'm taking notes for when this happens in this game...

Cultured Drizzt fan moved into Syria while The Celtic Viking was there. Choosing a battlefield was quite easy actually. I divided the distance between two sides into 5. Something like this:

Army TCV /-/-/-/-/-/ Army CDf ( /-/ marks the distance between armies)

CDf was the attacker. He would move 3 "steps" towards TCV. But because they took him off-guard CDf moved 4 "steps".

Army TCV /-/Battlefield/-/-/-/ Army CDf

After that I just checked the location on campaign map and made a roughly similar battlefield map.
It's not the best solution but it seemed to work.

**AussieGiant** · 07-08-2009, 09:50

No I don't mean those Ibn-Khaldun

Every country has those.

What I mean is the overriding tendency to approach law in the US as if every conceivable plausible or implausible possibility has to be explained in great detail due to the overtly aggressive and litigious environment that exists there.

Common Sense departed the system about 30 years ago. Other countries are vainly trying to stem the tide as the only group it benefit's are the lawyers.

Here ends the sermon.

**Zim** · 07-08-2009, 09:55

Ha. All I can say is that I work in law enforcement and sympathize completely.

I do have to admit that private company policy is affected even more by fear of litigation than law.

One good example is Ruger Firearms that have an inscribed message on the barrels pointing to the manual. That section of the manual might as well amount to "bullet things come out this end, don't point at friends"...

**AussieGiant** · 07-08-2009, 10:06

Originally Posted by Zim

"bullet things come out this end, don't point at friends"...

Indeed Mr Zim. Common sense departed the legal profession and the industry some decades ago. The US now has some really nutty stuff in place.

"Warning, sticking hand in blender and turning on may cause harm."

No shiet Sherlock, that's for letting me know.

In Australia or England you'd go to court and they would throw you out 5 seconds later.

In the states the civil suit would be 25 million dollars to the idiot who put their hand in the blender. Why? Because they were not warned that it could happen.

Totally ridiculous.

And a real shame actually that things have gotten to that level. It indicates a decline in society in my opinion.