Just read the book again for (literally) the fiftieth time and am wondering...
Would a plug-in work or just be too grandiose?

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And exactly how would that plugin work?

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Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done

[http://www.metallica.com](http://www.metallic<br />
a.com)

I don't know, perhaps just a couple of ships, and outfits. It would kick ass
to drive the heart of gold around sol, use the improbability drive and suddenly appear in
Mira.

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"Your attack has been rendered harmless.
It is, however, quite pretty"

Nevertheless, it would still have to be a big plug, if you want to include some of that good features(although that improbability drive is, I think, impossible.)

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Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done

[http://www.metallica.com](http://www.metallic<br />
a.com)

No, just highly improbable

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I do not suffer from insanity
I enjoy every minute of it

-Cantharan Admiral za'Grom
After the capture of Earth

OK, snap survey. Who didn't see that one coming?

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"Our reputation is a disgrace
We welcome people from outer space
They teach us bad, they teach us stink
Our education goes down the sink "

AIM: EVBasilisk

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Originally posted by Basilisk:
**OK, snap survey. Who didn't see that one coming?
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If you didn't, you're not really a Hitchiker's fan. But anyway, the Infinite Improbability drive could work, which I'll describe in a moment. But I have to say that the map, then, would not really show the galaxy at all. Just something like a bunch of systems on top of each, so you're not sure where to click, and all interconnected weirdly.

Or something like this: many versions of each systems, each with different hyper-connections, whose VisBits are activated or deactivated by random cargo missions, or buying ammo (this would require EVO 1.0.2). This would be a pain to make, and not infinitely improbable either. Just very.

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God. Root. What is difference?
-Pitr

AIM: obormot345

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Originally posted by Basilisk:
**OK, snap survey. Who didn't see that one coming?
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I saw that coming....
The idea of an HHGG page had occurred to a friend of mine -- I'll have to see what happened to that.

However, I could imagine the infinite improb. drive being a serious problem....

C~M

Heh, Douglas Adams is enough of a Mac Activist that he might just write up mission scripts himself.

The plug is a great idea, try and use obormots second idea with the visbits... That seems like it would work w/o causing injuries related to massive amounts of mouse clicking.

I guess you'd pretty much have to fudge the time aspect though... Maybe give the time in Spob descriptions and mission text?

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It could never work. You can’t transfer something cool in a book to something cool in EVO without huge loss of, well, cool I guess. It’s just like people making movies from really good books: it usually just doesn’t work.

Deep

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Originally posted by Deep Space Mann:
**It could never work. You can’t transfer something cool in a book to something cool in EVO without huge loss of, well, cool I guess. It’s just like people making movies from really good books: it usually just doesn’t work.

Deep

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I don't suppose we'll know until we try, will we? I might set up a scheme to do the visbit thing if I have time. Anybody wants to do the body of the plug?

By the way, I think the missions could be very cool. "Save Earth from the Vogons - an infinite number of times! They just keep coming back!"

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God. Root. What is difference?
-Pitr

AIM: obormot345

(This message has been edited by Obormot (edited 05-09-2000).)

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Originally posted by Cap'n Hector Must DIE!!!:
**Just read the book again for (literally) the fiftieth time and am wondering...
Would a plug-in work or just be too grandiose?

**

Ohhhh yes. That'd be sweet.

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Crazy Galaxy, Why am I
always caught in the
middle of all the Death,
Destruction, And Boom?
-Vice Admiral Jon