Re: (TFT) More on Predict Weather & Control Weather.

[ErolB1@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/2003 9:33:39 PM Central Standard Time, 
srydzews@ix.netcom.com writes:

>rsmith wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>     It still seems to powerful to me.
>> Let us say that I want to make a drought
>> for a year.  This should be something
>> that would take 1000's maybe millions
>> of fST.
>> 
>>     So on day 1 I push it back for a
>> week.  No big deal.  After a day or three
>> I push it back for another couple days.
>> 3 days later I push it back 2 days.
>> etc.  Never am I pushing back the storm
>> more than a week so one day at a time a
>> year's drought, while never spending more
>> fST than my wizard can handle at one time.
>
>Well he will blow his dex roll every once
>in a while.  If you don't get a second
>chance at it, then the "day at a time"
>approach will naturally be limited by
>this factor.

Except that this is a "Special" spell that doesn't require a Dx roll. (It's 
similar to the Geas spell in that respect.)

> Also, as time goes on you'll have more
> and more individual storms that will
> have to be deferred.  The total daily
> ST costs and number of DX rolls will
> pile up quite fast.

Yes. Or at least the St costs will pile up. Note that delaying a whole week 
of storms would cost 128 St. That's a non-trivial amount, IMC. If it normally 
rains once per week, a wizard who wants to create a drought will be spending 
128 St at the end of 7 weeks to extend the drought another week. And then 256 
St to extend it another 8 days, And then 512 St...

I thought about basing the St cost on when the weather was originally 
"scheduled", but that would produce practical complications: Is tomorrow's 
weather the "original" weather, or weather delayed a day or two by an NPC 
wizard? The real balance factor is that a weather wizard will have other IQ 
18+ wizard trying to put the weather back on its proper course. 

OTOH, maybe I should bump the cost up to 5 St for 1 day, doubled for each 
additional day. Then 2 days would be 10 St, 3 days 20 St, 4 days 40 St, 5 
days 80 St, 6 days 160 St, one week 320 St, and so on. 

Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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