Ernest Devore wrote:
>
> Your comment about the 'death spiral' amused me.
>
> KODP is one of those games where you can lose and not know you've lost for
> another 48 hours of gametime. It's like chaos theory. At the first cycle,
> you start encountering problems. They compound until they reach the point
> where you can't keep up. Then the decay rapidly picks up speed until you're
> presented with a lost game screen.
>
> Been there. :)
>
I stole the term from my old Shadowrun days (back in the 80's)....
..starting the death spiral was when you were being inched into dying by taking minimal damage in both physcial and mental. Eventually (and often quickly) it destroyed your ability to fight.
A bit of triva.
Jeff
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