Gas Harvesting

[ZakTorokko]

Originally posted by Cyberchu
Alchmysts should make gas by combining two different sunstances in a reaction. Natural gas springs could be used if you make some pipes to re-direct it. For example you vould build your guild hall above a flammable gas spring and have pipes in the walls to distribut the gas in case of an attack.

And Blow up your Guild Hall?
I see what you are saying though.
Mabye make a foyer with heavy stone doors connected to some limitless source of poisonous gas(For example only)and have someone stand in an ajacent room sealed off with glass to see who was in there, and/or to listen for a password, and s/he could release the gas with a lever. This would have to cause attackers to better plan out an attack, rather than running into a room with 9 million powerleveled retards with some sort of mental deficiency which causes them to include numbers and symbols into their English(See, L33t)and beating the hell out of the people who didn\'t just go out and waste all of their time begging for effective equipment then fighting things way above their normal starting area and so on, so forth, . Things like getting inside men, getting several people strong enough to move the stone blocking entrance(Which, I almost forgot, could be run through numerous pulley systems to reduce it\'s weight to a point to where pulling on a rope with half decent effort would raise it.), Or at least threaten to smash the glass in in the room and take the guy down with them and hope he\'s a gullible coward.
I\'d Definately like to see strategy be as important as jsut breaking in and killing the defenders with superior numbers.(Off Topic....But it\'s still good.)

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Melbourne

Originally posted by Kazorn
and minerals and gas? blizzard sue this project to death - look what it did to freecraft.

Thats right, I forgot Blizzard copyrighted the word gas.  

As things currently stand, they would patent \"a method of enhancing game experience by adding unusual resource components to the game economy\". This would get at anyone using something besides coal and gold in the economy of their games. IP madness!

[Melbourne]

Originally posted by Seytra
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As things currently stand, they would patent \"a method of enhancing game experience by adding unusual resource components to the game economy\". This would get at anyone using something besides coal and gold in the economy of their games. IP madness!

I doubt they\'ll be able to do that since Command &Conquer already use Tiberium, but the way things are who knows.:(

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Melbourne

Originally posted by Seytra

As things currently stand, they would patent \"a method of enhancing game experience by adding unusual resource components to the game economy\". This would get at anyone using something besides coal and gold in the economy of their games. IP madness!

I doubt they\'ll be able to do that since Command &Conquer already use Tiberium, but the way things are who knows.

Well, that\'d be prior art, but that doesn\'t exactly matter, because they could then rephrase to \"using several components, including one or more unusual ones\". And even without this, chances are high they\'ll get the patent anyway due to at best \"crude\" examination practices. And even if it would clearly be invalid, the costs of a lawsuit, regardless of outcome (several 100000 $ last I heared), would most likely be more than enough to break PS, which doesn\'t have any money to begin with.
Fact is that the patents don\'t even have to be valid anymore to stomp out competition or extract royalties, because the costs of a defending lawsuit are way too high in any case.

[Zyphon]

I only read through half this thread so forgive me if I repeated something.

Gas is pretty difficult to mine using conventional means. You can\'t just grab it either - It has to be mined in a very tech-like way. And it would be very hard to utilize as it just disappears the second you open the container or whatever.

HOWEVER magic can probably be used to collect gas and somehow \"insert\" it into weapons, potions, and other applications.

But for some reason it seems like Gas is a futuristic kind of resource, but that\'s just me.

[Melbourne]

Wouldn\'t this be a copyright instead of a patent?  I don\'t know a lot of the legal stuff.

[Kuiper7986]

okay then just don\'t call it gas...call it Amior

[Cyberchu]

If we call gas amior then it would be nice if we renamed the other resorses as well. It would also make PS a bit more original if it has unique names for its minerals

[Toadhead]

Electic is in my eyes better, you can get it yourself, or buy it. You can use it for a lot of things like light.




Toadhead

[Adeli]

You guys think too large-scale do you know how easy it is to collect gas? you need, a clay pot, something to seal it with (say a piece of leather)... as to someone\'s comment about \"real leather not like chicken skin\" who the hell makes leather out of chicken skin? As far as I knew, leather was a product of cow hide. Gas has natural vents (you may or may not know this).
Simple process: Get to vent, collect gas...
you may need to cover your face... maybe not.
Gas is a viable resource and logical, you can\'t have atmosphere without it now can you? Anyway.. gas could be used in many things, and Fhinias you are wrong, those game are fantasy, a little machinery does not make something scifi, machines were developed before the distant future you know? -GASP- Great Scott! We have machines now! As for RTS... Total Annihilation had gas too, Thermal Gas, but collecting natural resources for crafting, alchemy etc... is not mass-scale harvesting ala C&C.
Dungeon Siege, undoubtedly a fantasy game, the goblins were mechanical geniuses... in most RP gnomes are talented inventors... Machinery does not make for SciFi.

This is really long, sorry. I\'m all for GAS! Woot YEAH!!
collect bottle of noxious gas, instant weapon... how easy is that?? Go Gas, Go Gas, Wheeeeeeeee!