Re: [piecepack] Need Help with Hanging Gardens Rule

["Jim/Diane Doherty" <dianejim@...>]

James,

   Sounds like a very original game.  I'd vote for eyeballing LOS
and using a string for close calls. 
   While it's true this is imprecise, it sounds like a pretty informal 
game, so I doubt you'd have much daggers-drawn rules-lawyering 
over line of sight interpretations.  And if my group were playing it,
I think we could live with the concept of taking care not to nudge
pieces, and reconstructing carefully when it happens.  Anyone
who plays out miniatures battles lives with that kind of thing.  
 
    While I'm here, what's the status on the piecepack?  Any
foreseeable for-sale date?

Cheers,
Jim

    

   
  

>Some suggestions that have been put forth:
>1)  string
>2)  eyeball it (put your eye next to the pawn)
>3)  have players vote
>4)  [courtesy Dave Boyle] for Z axis visibility [assuming gazebo 
>viewing height is 1 level greater than the height of the plateau the 
>gazebo sits on]... the minimum distance a bed needs to be from 
>the gazebo is = (height difference between gazebo and bed * 
>distance from gazebo to plateau) / height difference between 
>gazebo and plateau
>
>The merits of suggestions #1 and #2 above are that they are 
>simple and take care of all 3 axes at once, but the trouble is that 
>they are imprecise (a slight nudge of tiles might change results).  
>Suggestion #3 seems interesting, but with some groups of 
>players it would never fly... such players would never vote in favor 
>of other players.  Suggestion #4 seems to work for determining 
>obstruction in the Z axis (and is based on the actual geometry of 
>the situation), and is fairly easy to implement once you get used 
>to it, but it is difficult to remember and some players would be 
>put off by the formula; also, it does nothing to solve the problem 
>in the X-Y plane.
>
>So, is this enough information to obtain a few suggestions?  Let 
>me know if you need clarification on anything.  I realize it can 
>sometimes be difficult to grasp the essence of a game without at 
>least seeing it played, but hopefully you can intuit the essentials.
>
>Thanks,
>James
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