Re: [HOE] More Junker questions

[Jim Burzelic <zombi_bobb@yahoo.com>]

--- Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 11:12  AM, Jim
> Burzelic wrote:
> 
> > Can you recharge spirit batteries and powerpacks
> by
> > hooking them up to Reactors?
> >
> > How would you simulate fiberoptic cabling? I want
> to
> > hook two separate "vehicles" together, like a
> train,
> > and have them run off the same engine. But it's
> more
> > than just power (otherwise, I'd just use spirit
> > cable). I also want the AI's voice and sensors and
> > control to extend to the extra cars when attached.
> I
> > know it'd be easier to just build the powers into
> each
> > car, but I want the same AI overall. So I was
> thinking
> > some sort of fiberoptics so that the AI could
> "move"
> > from car to car. Or maybe just a system of sensor
> and
> > commo powers will work. What's everyone else
> think?
> 
> Offhand, i'd let a second run of spirit cable be
> used as data cable... 
> I don't rememebr the speciifc of spirit cable at the
> moment, though... 
> I think it's important to recognize that while the
> Junker system is a 
> bit more crunchy and exact than the Mad Scientist
> mechanic, it still 
> requires posse intervention.
> 

I realize that the Junker rules are still at the mercy
of the Marshal, I just wish someone would run a game
that I could play in instead of the other way around.
Since I am just making junker-tech for the fun of it
and for the internet community who find some use in
it, I want the devices to be as non-fudged as
possible. Hopefully, I will be able to make such a
plethora of devices that people won't be afraid of
this specific AB as much any longer.

> > I want to make a detachable "brain" for my
> vehicle.
> > Wow, I just realized I'm basically recreating
> those
> > computer head things that controlled the cars in
> the
> > old cartoon pole position. What I was thinking is
> > using contact sensors and/or ranged sensors so
> that
> > the brain box (or junker) can still control the
> > vehicle remotely. For the device to control or
> send
> > commands of control, would I just use the Commo
> power
> > for sending data? Would I use this same method for
> > that AI problem above?
> 
> I'd definitely say the 'brain' would be a separate
> device, basically, 
> probably with the commo power on everything it wants
> to talk to and 
> itself. Think about what you want it to do when
> alone, then build the 
> vehicle with it's own sensors.
> 

So you're leaning to the "build all the powers in each
portion" side.


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