Post by jon on Jan 7, 2010 18:33:09 GMT -5
Hey, so I'm starting this thread as a discussion one to talk about selling the nuke, without putting it in Jojo's actual request thread. This is done so that when Ketara moves the 'response' back in Jojo's thread, they won't see our deliberations unless we want to copy them over there.
My thoughts - if they want it, they should have to pay a shitload for it.
1) They're trying to skirt the Antartic treaty, which is bull and we know it.
2) If we use a nuke on a Zeon target, unless it is one that ALSO accomplishes our own goals, it will very obviously be at the behest of the Feds and will bring down the heavy end of the hammer from the Zekes. This would be very bad. We wouldn't be able to survive a full-on assault, and knowing Ketara he would do something very evil like send a bunch of NPCs after us as well. (Yeah, I said it - EEEEEEVIL. BIAS BIAS BIAS!)
3) Honestly, if we use the nuke, period, it will bring down a rain of fire from Zeon (assuming that's who we use it on - not necessarily the case, but based on our attacks so far...). So if we're going to use it, it should be done for a specific purpose other than a money grab.
4) They can only buy nukes in bulk, which costs them over 22k. So what if buying a new one only costs us 2k? They should know buying in bulk saves money, so buying single units costs money. Plus, they should pay for the 'delivery' of the package - which, as I said above, has HUGE additional ramifications beyond just nuking something.
All in all, I'm thinking a massive number - north of 10k at least. Probably closer to 20. Maybe even higher - once we do this, there's no way the Zeon PCs will be able to ignore us, much less whatever additional NPC stuff Ket might/might not throw at us. It would totally screw up the timeline, as well. They can't/don't want to pay? Tough shit. Let them buy their own nuke and use it.
My thoughts - if they want it, they should have to pay a shitload for it.
1) They're trying to skirt the Antartic treaty, which is bull and we know it.
2) If we use a nuke on a Zeon target, unless it is one that ALSO accomplishes our own goals, it will very obviously be at the behest of the Feds and will bring down the heavy end of the hammer from the Zekes. This would be very bad. We wouldn't be able to survive a full-on assault, and knowing Ketara he would do something very evil like send a bunch of NPCs after us as well. (Yeah, I said it - EEEEEEVIL. BIAS BIAS BIAS!)
3) Honestly, if we use the nuke, period, it will bring down a rain of fire from Zeon (assuming that's who we use it on - not necessarily the case, but based on our attacks so far...). So if we're going to use it, it should be done for a specific purpose other than a money grab.
4) They can only buy nukes in bulk, which costs them over 22k. So what if buying a new one only costs us 2k? They should know buying in bulk saves money, so buying single units costs money. Plus, they should pay for the 'delivery' of the package - which, as I said above, has HUGE additional ramifications beyond just nuking something.
All in all, I'm thinking a massive number - north of 10k at least. Probably closer to 20. Maybe even higher - once we do this, there's no way the Zeon PCs will be able to ignore us, much less whatever additional NPC stuff Ket might/might not throw at us. It would totally screw up the timeline, as well. They can't/don't want to pay? Tough shit. Let them buy their own nuke and use it.
