Re: Legends pop seg knowledges

From: lache@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Stefan Lache)

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 12:08:18 +0000

Robbie Westmoreland writes:

>In NIC USA, I've got a recently captured pop seg with the knowledge of how
>to make Mithril Axes.  I'm currently carting this pop seg around in a force,
>but will soon want to transfer it into a location.  A couple of questions
>about this:

>If I transfer the whole pop into an existing pop seg (i.e., one with pop
>already) within the location, does the knowledge transfer with them?

>If I transfer a piece of the pop into an existing pop seg within the
>location, do both pop segs get the knowledge?

>If I have to transfer the pop seg into another mobile force's pop seg,
>which later transfers the pop into an empty pop seg within a location, does
>the knowledge make all of the transfers?

As the manual (at least the German/Austrian one - or maybe it was an info
by the GM) warns that production secrets may vanish when you transfer pop
you should not rely on the fact that it will work, but for me it did:

When I captured a location containing a pop seg with a production secret I
transfered part of the pop (about 70% from what I remember) to an empty pop
seg in another force. Later I transfered most of this pop into an existing
pop seg of approximately the same size in another location. As a result all
three pop segs possessed the production secret.
I can add that I did not yet experience the loss of a production secret
because of pop transfers, and never heard of an event when this happened
to another player. So maybe the information in the manual is not correct.

>It'd be kind of nice to be able to mass produce mithril axes (he said wist-
>fully).

Good luck, it may work.

>BTW, a clarification for NIC (from observation):
>a Magic (glimmered) normal weapon has DAM 1
>a Mithril or Meldorian weapon has DAM 1
>a Magic (glimmered) Mithril or Meldorian weapon has DAM 2
>a Mithril or Meldorian weapon with a Pwr rating had DAM (1+Pwr)

Make the last figure 2+Pwr.

>The current listing in the NIC Item List that postulates a DAM 5 for Pwr 3
>weapons (and is caveated by a comment suggesting it may be high) is, in fact
>high.
>--
>Robbie Westmoreland, Dilettante                             robbiew@inviso.com
>"Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over
>          an ocean of the forgotten..."      Milan Kundera, _The Joke_
>                 I'm not wierd; I'm differently normal!   -- Me

Ciao

Stefan

References

Legends pop seg knowledges
robbiew@inviso.com (Robbie Westmoreland)
Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:15:08 +0000