(TFT) Re: TFT Digest V3 #654

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 0:57 -0500 2/17/05, rsmith@lightspeed.ca wrote:
> Is it so bad that stone has 100 ST / cm?  Fundamentally
> the question is, is this something that needs to be
> changed?  What would be the most fun?

Am I reading this that it takes 100 ST of damage to advance the whole 
face of a tunnel (say 1 m x 2 m ) one cm? That's removing, um... 2 
million cc's of stone. Sounds pretty cheap at the price, if I have it 
right. The typical "100 ST of damage" as applied to, say, killing a 
dozen goblins, probably would not involve removing 2 million cc's of 
goblin flesh. But then, stone isn't that resilient, and you probably 
get some benefit from fracturing.

No, tunneling (with picks) isn't too easy. Not that I've ever 
actually *tunneled* before in real life, but in TFT, even as dwarves, 
my characters take *forever* to hollow out a good underground palace 
for themselves. Remember too, that normal dungeon maps are in 
megahexes, so it's not just a 1-m wide tunnel. It takes a while. 
Months, even for just a few rooms.
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