Book Code for Prime Base

[mikeo80]

In one game I was part of, as Prime was dying, one of the programmers who were developing the "last app" had a bright idea.

Prime location and back story (at least as they understood what was killing them) were transmitted to all regional supply bases. IF a level 4 or above Morrow person put in his/her card, then the story would unfold. The location was NOT latitude x longitude. Some physical clues were put in. it was up to Morrow people to get to location and deduce the exact spot.

Something like:

In NW Nevada, look for the windmill where it should not be.

Only problem, per Prime Base module, the windmill on top of the mesa had been blown down by the nuke in the valley. It did leave a baked MP in the mud.

It took our team FOREVER to even get close. NW Nevada is HUGE!!! We got lucky by running into a small heard of buffs. Buffalo meat is very lean and has an interesting flavor. We rigged up a distillery using heat from the engine to purify water. We kept our canteens and water storage units as full as possible.

What finally got our attention was the slightly radioactive lake behind the
landslide wall. The auto nav had no clue what this lake was doing HERE ??!!??!!

We EVENTUALLY found our way into Prime. We had to pull out after a week of wandering around and NOT finding how to restart Prime.

As the game wound down, we had setup a small fire base NEAR PRIME. We were looking for other Morrow people to help us.

Just an idea that worked in our game.

My $0.02
Mike