since I'm going through like 50+kb of digests. My aren't we a chatty bunch?
Don't make me use a rule 1 on you!
- David Dunham made a very good point about spams. There is a setting that
I can change which will only allow members to post. First sign of spam,
it's on. Let's all be optimists and hope they don't find us anytime soon.
- in Re the Lunar waxing/waning math effects - wouldn't it be more logical
that we simply employ the HW system as-is rather than adding another
mechanism (the multiplier) to make this work? IMO, it's simplest to say
that the red moon (wherever you happen to declare it's cyclic effect valid)
is a handicap when it's dark, and an augment (at some value) when full and
different values in between? Alternately, an even SIMPLER way to handle it
is say that the Red Moon value is cyclic. So when full it's a value of 2w,
when new it's 2. Then lunars use this to augment themselves for anything
appropriate. (And if you know the cult secret you get an extra w or
something) This has the disadvantage of not actually handicapping anyone
when it's new, of course. I just tend to (on the face of it) agree that
multipliers are ungood, as they have relatively different effects at lower &
higher power levels, and I'm not sure that's dramatically justifiable.