SURVEY QUESTION: MOVES!

[PepsiWhirda]

Second post for this because it's only tangentially related to my earlier post.

I also think we need to reevaluate how moves are costed and what constitutes a "variable use."  I think it's absurd that I should have to pay 600 OM for a gun that can rapid fire or burst fire.  If it was a gun that turned into a shield, I can understand paying 600 OM because those are drastically different functions.  In the writing, the difference between burst fire and rapid fire is negligible and I work hard for my OM.

I don't believe it's unclear at all. Just that people always want to try and squeeze in ways to save OM.

The primary reason is that different fire modes actually change the strength of the individual bullets. 3 bullets from full auto might be fairly weak together, 3 bullets from a burst might be somewhat strong. Each fire mode is essentially a different gun. 3 guns would cost ya 900 OM.

If someone wants so skimp on OM, they can opt to make a gun that can fire bullets up to X rate, and add in fire modes as pure fodder, where you're shooting slower for no benefit outside of saving ammo and potentially aiming each shot a bit better. Where by burst and semi-automatic modes are basically equivalent to tapping the trigger on the automatic mode. That might not sound so bad until you realise bullets from a full auto gun are typically weak, since if you're shooting 5-10 shots per second, it's probably gonna take about a second to break someone's skin with a hard to dodge ranged move (obviously, you can skew it based on the situation and what writes well, bit individual bullets from a full auto gun are weak - they're a hard to dodge attack and there's a lot of them, hence they'd be weak). But that's getting off topic, somewhat.

If four pages of discussion hasn't clued you in to why the logic of your post is fallacious, then perpetuating the discussion isn't going to solve anything.