[HOE] Another thought on multi-legged junker gizmos

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

There was a question a while back about junker devices with more than four legs.
I believe someone had already suggested following the formula for adding extra
wheels and extrapolating the slot cost from the slot cost for two and four legs,
so each additional pair adds 30% of Frame slots, increases the Load Limit by 5%,
and lowers top speed by 5%. That works fine if you're adding extra legs to
increase load capacity, but most multi-legged creatures use the extra legs for
stability and improved gripping, not carrying capacity. If I wanted to make,
say, a spider-bot, I would just handwave it and say that you have twice as many
legs but they're each half the size, so the total slot cost remains the same.

--Robert Holland